Stories From the Jesus House Available Now! February 2018
In 1987, God rescued Bonnie Kae Lentz from a pleasure-seeking world filled with witchcraft and drugs. Shortly after that life-changing rescue she and her husband Tom hung a bed sheet painted with the name JESUS from their porch.
That was the only announcement they needed. From that act of obedience and thousands more since, God brought people to their door. Eventually they moved into an old building in the middle of Bloomington's West Side. Stories from the Jesus House tells the journey Bonnie and Tom traveled as they followed God's lead to love the people around them.
Tattooed by Jesus
From her earliest memories fear tattooed Bonnie's soul. Threats from a drunk uncle and a hellish encounter in a cold bedroom left her searching for good. Mr. Sun and open spaces gave her glimpses of another world, a world of hope she could never quite touch. Not finding the light she longed for, Bonnie filled her teenage years with anger, rebellion, and a vow to shake off her past. Booze didn't help. Drugs, either...but they gave her the highs she craved.
When Hollywood dreams fizzled, life back in Illinois and a search for God brought her to the brink of a black abyss. She would find truth...or die trying. In this poignant story of how one soul found Jesus to be so much more than a cuss word, experience how a West Side addict birthed the Jesus House, a place where life's tattoos become God's materials for transformation.