May 30, 2025 • 28 mins
Geneva's raw testimony begins before her first breath—born a "crack baby," With no adult guidance, she was looking for real love. Whether wrestling with addiction, questioning your identity, or carrying the weight of past trauma, this episode illuminates how acceptance and faith can transform even the most wounded hearts. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear that no matter their past, healing is possible.
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Are you ready to fill your soul with a sustenance and ease?
Look no further. Bishop Joshua Fonseca's Soul
Food Podcast. You can listen anytime to these
engaging messages of faith. From testimonies and real life
stories to musical entertainmentis here to satisfy your
spiritual hunger. TuneIn today for a journey of
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hope, strength and truth and be uplifted with each episode.
Wherever you are. Don't let your soul go hungry.
It's time for some soul food. Naked the truth.
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Hide there in the Lord Jesus bless your life.
Today we have Geneva with us. Hello, Geneva, How are you?
Hi, Bishop, I'm well. Geneva, tell us before you know
the truth. Uncovering the truth means we
are showing the truth. Who were Geneva before the
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truth? Well before the truth.
You know, from the very beginning, things was rough for
me. I was born as what they called a
crack baby. My mother was on drugs.
So soon as I was born, I was taken away from my mom and I was
placed in foster care. Tell, tell me once again, what
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is a crack baby? Explain it to us.
So it means when you're born to your mom and she was on drugs,
you know, she was high, she had,she had crack in her system.
And because of that, I myself had crack inside of like in my
blood as well. Right.
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Another day I spoke to a lady that she was born also like
that. She had the drugs in her blood.
So you were saying that because of her addiction she gave birth
to you. She was always high.
The system got involved and it took you away from her.
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Yeah, and they placed me in foster care.
So I was in foster care for about like, maybe like a few
years. I went from at least two houses.
And then that's when my aunt decided to just take me and to
take me along with some of my other siblings as well.
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So growing up, you know, we usedto have, in order for me to see
my mom, I, we used to have supervised visits with the
government. We have to go to a certain place
just to see her and spend time with her.
So with that, you know, around like 6 years old, my dad had
passed away. I never knew my father really.
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I had met him like once in a supervised visit, but he passed
away when I was 6. And then at 11, she, my mom
actually passed away as well. So when she died, you know, at
this time a lot of things was happening.
She died, my family, my siblingswas moving out the house and
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stuff like that. So it was just me.
And at this time I actually got involved and introduced to weed
and I started drinking at this time as well.
How old are you? 11. 11 years old.
So your suffering begun even before you were born?
Even before you were conceived, because you were conceived by a
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drug addicted mother. I say that your suffering begun
before you were born because your mother wasn't suffering.
Was your mother married to your father?
No, actually he was almost 30 years older than her as well.
He was about 60 years old and she was like 30 or something
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like that. So that's why I said I did not
know that. But I said that yourself would
have begun even before Geneva you were born, right?
So everybody around you start die.
Your mother, people that are taking care of you at 11 years
old, that curse that was upon your mother also came upon you
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because you start doing drugs and drinking.
Yeah, I started drinking and I started smoking weed at the time
I I started smoking black and males as well.
It's a form of tobacco. And at 11 when all this was
happening, when I was in school,I actually got raped and I
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couldn't tell nobody because there was no one around me to
tell. So I already grew to have a lot
of anger inside of me from beingraped in school.
Actually, you had nobody to tellthem.
No, I didn't have anyone. My sister wasn't me and her
wasn't close and she moved out. My oldest brother, he actually
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went to college is around this time too.
It was just me left and that's what made me go.
When you were raped. I was raped the first time was
11. 11. Yeah.
So at 11 years old, you have a lot of scars.
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Yeah. Bro your, I mean your childhood,
your life, yourself, the Lord you, you grew up with a lot of
scars. Yeah, it was like a lot of
secrets, even in the family because a little before that one
of my brothers like molested me as well.
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But yeah, but no one knew that as well.
It happened to one of my other brothers, but he also kept it a
secret as well. He didn't tell anyone.
So we're talking about a cursed family.
Yeah, very broken, very dysfunctional.
Right. And then growing up, what
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happened to Geneva? So once, once I went, it was no
one around. So I, I went to the streets.
That's where, you know, I thought I found a sense of
community, where I found a family.
So from there, that's when I learned how to do things.
I learned how to smoke, how to roll.
My first Li started drinking. That's when I came out as a
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lesbian. I started to change the way I
dress. I started to dress like a boy.
And, you know, I came out to my mom and I told her like, you
know, I'm a lesbian. I like girls.
And for me it was normal like because I've seen people do it.
And so it was normal for me. And at this time, that's when I
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started partying. And even at 13, I used to get
really, really messed up, like to the point where I would black
out. And I used to have bad
experience when I used to black out.
Like when I black out, I remember one time it was told to
me that my friend allowed her boyfriend to even to, to have
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sex with me and she watched the whole thing.
And I was, I was, I was gone. I was out of it and all all I
kept hearing was just don't let her hit her head, don't let her
hit her head because I was like almost unconscious when it was
happening. So all of these things happen
and now that I'm in the lesbian where I started dating a lot of
women because from young I already put inside of me no
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commitment. I didn't want relationships
because I never seen solid relationship where people would
stay together. People was always leaving my
life willingly and unwillingly, so I didn't want any type of
commitment with other people. So I.
Was just sleeping around. People see, when people see like
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lesbians, homosexuals, drug dealers, evil doers, evil
people, bad people, they should not judge because they do not
know the dark side of their story.
That's why in the Universal Church we say come as you are,
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where they want the prostitute or the pimp, where they want the
user or the drug dealer, the seller, we say come as you are.
In your case, you became a lesbian and you were having a
lot of women in your life because you were raped.
You never had a family. You were abused, you were
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molested. So you grew up with this anger,
this hatred inside of you, right?
Yeah, that's correct. Even like once I started dating
and the women and stuff, I became very abusive at one
point. I like because I had so much
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anger and I didn't have a way tolet it out, the only way to let
out my emotions or how I felt because I didn't know how to
share how I was feeling. I didn't know how to express
myself. So I will use sex.
So at this age that my addictionto alcohol was becoming very
heavy. It wasn't no more social
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anymore, you know, So at 13, when I between like 15 to like
17, I became very abusive to women.
I started beating them like really badly.
I would leave them with black eyes.
I will fight all the time. At this time I was already
partying. I've lost.
I was in and out of jobs and like life was just so crazy
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because like I was, I would really, I was so deep, you know,
I even got stabbed by one femaleone time like, and it was just a
lot because like things were just going in a cycle and it was
just going downhill, downhill. So as as I was getting older,
my, I started to really depend on alcohol now.
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So alcohol actually was like everything to me.
I couldn't sleep without like. Like, didn't you think I became
my mother? I mean, just like my mother.
The idea never really crossed mymind because I separated alcohol
from drugs. I didn't think that it was the
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same thing, like I didn't think that alcohol was a drug at that
time. But in a sense of in a sense of
love life, life on the streets were just the same.
Yeah, pretty much. What was the worst moment if I
can say? Because everything that you you
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told us were very bad, very evil.
Was there any worst moment than this ones you are talking about?
Yeah, when I was like maybe like20, I, I did a program where
like after I got out of rehab, Isigned up to a youth program
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that they help you connect with jobs and stuff like that, like
big time jobs like Facebook, thebanks and stuff like that.
And I, I used to intern at an investment bank, the B MB MY
mailing. And then they actually wanted to
hire me full time at this time. So while I was waiting to be
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processed, I got arrested. And because I've been arrested
so many times before, at this time, the judge wanted to make
an example out of me. So I they tried, They turned me
with three felonies, 1. Robbery, assault and disorderly
conduct. So immediately, because of that,
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it was a pending charge, I lost the opportunity at the
investment bank and from there my life even went downhill from
that. Once I lost that opportunity, I
felt my life was old because it took at least a year or two for
me to know if I was going to be charged or not.
So you said? You said many times, many times,
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being arrested, How many times you can count?
At least five times I was kickedout of high school.
At the time I was kicked out. I got arrested the same time
because I had a fight with the security guard and that's when
they took me downtown. I got arrested again from just
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being with the wrong crowd. They were shoplifting and I was
just with them, but at that timethey actually took me to the
book and so I had to spend the weekend there and it was just a
lot, a lot of times behind in the precincts and stuff like
that. OK, until the day that the judge
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want to cheat you. A lesson.
Yeah, so from there, once I thought that I was going to be
charged with these felonies, I really came to the press.
So all I used to do was wake up.I would drink, I will win
someone to to be with. And the cycle was just that
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until one day my uncle was like,yo, you need to do something
with yourself. And at this time, like I was
searching for something because I actually felt really empty and
I was searching. I was even, I even went to a
church down the block from my mom house and you know, they,
they didn't offer me anything. I remember one lady, I was so
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drunk one time, one lady or old lady, and I started talking to
her about God, like who is God? Like who is that?
Everybody keep talking about God, who is God.
And I remember she gave me 3 John 316.
And still to this day that that message stuck with me.
So once, once I found out, I said, OK, I'm going to get
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myself together. I'm going to go look for a job.
That's when I actually found theUniversal Church, because in the
window it had every day of the week, something like Mondays,
they had financial. Yeah.
So I assume, like, I didn't really read it because that same
day I was a little bit hungover.Like I still was a little bit
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hungover. And, you know, but I said I'm
not going to drink. I'm going to go search for a job
and my uncle is like, Oh, they doing Flyers on pick and go, go
see if you get hired. So I stumbled in the church like
that and then the pastor would just like, oh, come back
tomorrow. We're going to talk about it.
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So then I sobered up that day and then I came.
But the the cycle was like it was rough for the transition was
rough. The conversion was rough in the
beginning. I didn't.
I was there, but I didn't believe.
I even came to a point where I tested God and I said I'm not
going to come to the church for one week and I want to see the
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difference. I want to see what's the
difference if I come to church and if I don't, or I want to see
the difference with God and without God.
So I didn't come to the church for a whole week and Bishop
still to this day, that week is the worst week of my life.
In that week I, I got so drunk like never before.
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I, I slept in the street. I slept in the street like 2
days. I lost my phone, I lost my job
like I lost everything. And then one day that Saturday I
was like, OK, I, I get it. I understand.
I see now. So then that Sunday I went back
to the church and then no one said nothing.
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The only thing the pastor said was, did you figure out what it
is that you needed to figure out?
I say yes. So I've been there ever since
because I've seen the difference.
How long have you been in church?
I don't even, I've been in church for four years, Bishop.
Four years in the Universal Church, Geneva.
What has God done for you? Who is Geneva inside?
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Oh, Geneva Situs. I have peace, Bishop.
I have the Holy Spirit. I know that no matter what
happens, what happens around me,I, I am going to be OK.
Like it doesn't matter what happens with my family with
nothing. I know that I'm going to be OK.
I don't have the desire to do all this craziness.
I forgiven the people I've hurt.I forgiven.
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I asked for forgiveness for the I've heard it like I'm very,
very peaceful. I have joy inside of me.
So no more drugs, no more parties.
You have changed in every every aspect of your life.
Every aspect. I don't need women anymore.
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I don't even dress like a boy. I don't you can tell boy
anymore. We saw your.
Pictures pretty well. We saw your pictures here.
We we can see the before and theafter.
But tell me, when you came into this ministry, did anybody judge
you for your appearance, for your looking?
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You look like a boy, walk like aboy.
Did anybody say no in just church?
We do not accept any lesbian. No, the total opposite.
I felt like family. Like it was the first time I
actually felt like a real family.
When I came to the church, no one judged me.
They even embraced me even more.And I found it really odd
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because used to sit like in the back and I would look to see if
anybody was looking at me. Like I used to try to fix myself
because I thought people were staring at me and when in truth
no one was paying me, no mine, no one was paying me any mind.
Everybody was focused. I mean, so Geneva, thank you
very much for your story, your testimony.
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That was the address of the church that you attended to
there in New York City. So I attend 2006 Fulton St.,
Brooklyn, NY 11233. Thank you very much.
God bless. All the best.
Geneva. Bye, bye.
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You see, my friend, it's possible.
It's possible to change. It's possible to have a new
life. If you are watching me, you are
a lesbian. Come, homosexual come drug
dealer, selling, using drugs, doing drugs.
Come as you are. The Universal Church is open for
everybody. All are welcome.
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It doesn't matter where you're from or what you did.
If you're the top half or bottomhalf, if you have it all or
nothing at all, if you're the hero or the villain, white or
black, regardless of gender or orientation.
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With your own religion or lack thereof.
With a dark past. Or not so bright future if you
feel loved or never felt loved, regardless of age or
nationality. Here there is a place for
everyone. For God does not show
favoritism. Romans 211, the universal
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church. We're all are more than welcome.
Prepare your cup of water in a few.
Bishop Joshua will be praying for you.
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Don't stop listening. Soul food has more to feed you.
You are listening to soul food with Bishop Joshua.
We'll be right back. Dear Lee, how do you do?
I might be 5-10, maybe 15 years from you.
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Dear me, do you still live? And do you still live your life?
The song you don't even like. Like a button.
Without a stream flying away, may the gods most be your.
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Dear me, how do you call and howdo you live your life?
The song You don't come on like a bone clean on the street far
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away. May the cosmos real Come this
way in wherever I am. Dear me, how do you do now that
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I'm far 10, maybe 15 years from you?
It's now the moment of prayer. Let us talk to God.
Here I am in this moment of prayer, so despised without
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love. Need to talk with my Lord.
Oh my Lord, come quickly and help me.
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We are going to pray now. Please close your eyes.
Oh Lord my God, this is what this person needs right now, to
come out of this miserable life,a life of pain, a life of
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suffering, a life of tears that cannot take it anymore.
They are unwanted, unloved, theyare being beaten, treated like
nothing. Oh Jesus, Jesus, rescue,
Disperser. Right now the make of the truth
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is about it. Revealing to Disperser that they
can stop suffering and they havea new life.
Spirit of the living God, come to change, come to transform
their lives. Water into wine, Bless those who
are in prison behind the bars. I know, Lord, they have made
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mistakes. They have perhaps killed
somebody, raped somebody. They have done evil.
But you are a forgiving God and you are a God that gives chance
and a New Hope. My Lord, Jesus, bless those who
are in the hospital. Huge dispersal from the disease,
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from this asthma. Let dispersed be set free, O
Lord, once and for all God of the Bible, O Lord, let dispersed
be set free and have your peace.This is what I pray in the name
of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ name
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Amen. Praise God, Amen.
If you have your glass of water,you may drink it is blessed.
When you feel the sunlight fade into the cold night, you don't
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know where to turn. You don't know where to turn and
do all the dreams you're dreaming you seem to lose.
There ain't any only in the world.
The Lord Jesus Christ you be always there for you.
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The helpline is too available for you.
May the God of the Bible bless all of you.
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hope, strength and truth and be uplifted with each episode.
Wherever you are. Don't let your soul go hungry.
It's time for some soul food. Naked the truth.
(01:02):
Hide there in the Lord Jesus bless your life.
Today we have Geneva with us. Hello, Geneva, How are you?
Hi, Bishop, I'm well. Geneva, tell us before you know
the truth. Uncovering the truth means we
are showing the truth. Who were Geneva before the
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truth? Well before the truth.
You know, from the very beginning, things was rough for
me. I was born as what they called a
crack baby. My mother was on drugs.
So soon as I was born, I was taken away from my mom and I was
placed in foster care. Tell, tell me once again, what
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is a crack baby? Explain it to us.
So it means when you're born to your mom and she was on drugs,
you know, she was high, she had,she had crack in her system.
And because of that, I myself had crack inside of like in my
blood as well. Right.
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Another day I spoke to a lady that she was born also like
that. She had the drugs in her blood.
So you were saying that because of her addiction she gave birth
to you. She was always high.
The system got involved and it took you away from her.
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Yeah, and they placed me in foster care.
So I was in foster care for about like, maybe like a few
years. I went from at least two houses.
And then that's when my aunt decided to just take me and to
take me along with some of my other siblings as well.
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So growing up, you know, we usedto have, in order for me to see
my mom, I, we used to have supervised visits with the
government. We have to go to a certain place
just to see her and spend time with her.
So with that, you know, around like 6 years old, my dad had
passed away. I never knew my father really.
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I had met him like once in a supervised visit, but he passed
away when I was 6. And then at 11, she, my mom
actually passed away as well. So when she died, you know, at
this time a lot of things was happening.
She died, my family, my siblingswas moving out the house and
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stuff like that. So it was just me.
And at this time I actually got involved and introduced to weed
and I started drinking at this time as well.
How old are you? 11. 11 years old.
So your suffering begun even before you were born?
Even before you were conceived, because you were conceived by a
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drug addicted mother. I say that your suffering begun
before you were born because your mother wasn't suffering.
Was your mother married to your father?
No, actually he was almost 30 years older than her as well.
He was about 60 years old and she was like 30 or something
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like that. So that's why I said I did not
know that. But I said that yourself would
have begun even before Geneva you were born, right?
So everybody around you start die.
Your mother, people that are taking care of you at 11 years
old, that curse that was upon your mother also came upon you
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because you start doing drugs and drinking.
Yeah, I started drinking and I started smoking weed at the time
I I started smoking black and males as well.
It's a form of tobacco. And at 11 when all this was
happening, when I was in school,I actually got raped and I
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couldn't tell nobody because there was no one around me to
tell. So I already grew to have a lot
of anger inside of me from beingraped in school.
Actually, you had nobody to tellthem.
No, I didn't have anyone. My sister wasn't me and her
wasn't close and she moved out. My oldest brother, he actually
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went to college is around this time too.
It was just me left and that's what made me go.
When you were raped. I was raped the first time was
11. 11. Yeah.
So at 11 years old, you have a lot of scars.
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Yeah. Bro your, I mean your childhood,
your life, yourself, the Lord you, you grew up with a lot of
scars. Yeah, it was like a lot of
secrets, even in the family because a little before that one
of my brothers like molested me as well.
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But yeah, but no one knew that as well.
It happened to one of my other brothers, but he also kept it a
secret as well. He didn't tell anyone.
So we're talking about a cursed family.
Yeah, very broken, very dysfunctional.
Right. And then growing up, what
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happened to Geneva? So once, once I went, it was no
one around. So I, I went to the streets.
That's where, you know, I thought I found a sense of
community, where I found a family.
So from there, that's when I learned how to do things.
I learned how to smoke, how to roll.
My first Li started drinking. That's when I came out as a
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lesbian. I started to change the way I
dress. I started to dress like a boy.
And, you know, I came out to my mom and I told her like, you
know, I'm a lesbian. I like girls.
And for me it was normal like because I've seen people do it.
And so it was normal for me. And at this time, that's when I
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started partying. And even at 13, I used to get
really, really messed up, like to the point where I would black
out. And I used to have bad
experience when I used to black out.
Like when I black out, I remember one time it was told to
me that my friend allowed her boyfriend to even to, to have
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sex with me and she watched the whole thing.
And I was, I was, I was gone. I was out of it and all all I
kept hearing was just don't let her hit her head, don't let her
hit her head because I was like almost unconscious when it was
happening. So all of these things happen
and now that I'm in the lesbian where I started dating a lot of
women because from young I already put inside of me no
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commitment. I didn't want relationships
because I never seen solid relationship where people would
stay together. People was always leaving my
life willingly and unwillingly, so I didn't want any type of
commitment with other people. So I.
Was just sleeping around. People see, when people see like
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lesbians, homosexuals, drug dealers, evil doers, evil
people, bad people, they should not judge because they do not
know the dark side of their story.
That's why in the Universal Church we say come as you are,
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where they want the prostitute or the pimp, where they want the
user or the drug dealer, the seller, we say come as you are.
In your case, you became a lesbian and you were having a
lot of women in your life because you were raped.
You never had a family. You were abused, you were
(09:14):
molested. So you grew up with this anger,
this hatred inside of you, right?
Yeah, that's correct. Even like once I started dating
and the women and stuff, I became very abusive at one
point. I like because I had so much
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anger and I didn't have a way tolet it out, the only way to let
out my emotions or how I felt because I didn't know how to
share how I was feeling. I didn't know how to express
myself. So I will use sex.
So at this age that my addictionto alcohol was becoming very
heavy. It wasn't no more social
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anymore, you know, So at 13, when I between like 15 to like
17, I became very abusive to women.
I started beating them like really badly.
I would leave them with black eyes.
I will fight all the time. At this time I was already
partying. I've lost.
I was in and out of jobs and like life was just so crazy
(10:23):
because like I was, I would really, I was so deep, you know,
I even got stabbed by one femaleone time like, and it was just a
lot because like things were just going in a cycle and it was
just going downhill, downhill. So as as I was getting older,
my, I started to really depend on alcohol now.
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So alcohol actually was like everything to me.
I couldn't sleep without like. Like, didn't you think I became
my mother? I mean, just like my mother.
The idea never really crossed mymind because I separated alcohol
from drugs. I didn't think that it was the
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same thing, like I didn't think that alcohol was a drug at that
time. But in a sense of in a sense of
love life, life on the streets were just the same.
Yeah, pretty much. What was the worst moment if I
can say? Because everything that you you
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told us were very bad, very evil.
Was there any worst moment than this ones you are talking about?
Yeah, when I was like maybe like20, I, I did a program where
like after I got out of rehab, Isigned up to a youth program
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that they help you connect with jobs and stuff like that, like
big time jobs like Facebook, thebanks and stuff like that.
And I, I used to intern at an investment bank, the B MB MY
mailing. And then they actually wanted to
hire me full time at this time. So while I was waiting to be
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processed, I got arrested. And because I've been arrested
so many times before, at this time, the judge wanted to make
an example out of me. So I they tried, They turned me
with three felonies, 1. Robbery, assault and disorderly
conduct. So immediately, because of that,
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it was a pending charge, I lost the opportunity at the
investment bank and from there my life even went downhill from
that. Once I lost that opportunity, I
felt my life was old because it took at least a year or two for
me to know if I was going to be charged or not.
So you said? You said many times, many times,
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being arrested, How many times you can count?
At least five times I was kickedout of high school.
At the time I was kicked out. I got arrested the same time
because I had a fight with the security guard and that's when
they took me downtown. I got arrested again from just
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being with the wrong crowd. They were shoplifting and I was
just with them, but at that timethey actually took me to the
book and so I had to spend the weekend there and it was just a
lot, a lot of times behind in the precincts and stuff like
that. OK, until the day that the judge
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want to cheat you. A lesson.
Yeah, so from there, once I thought that I was going to be
charged with these felonies, I really came to the press.
So all I used to do was wake up.I would drink, I will win
someone to to be with. And the cycle was just that
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until one day my uncle was like,yo, you need to do something
with yourself. And at this time, like I was
searching for something because I actually felt really empty and
I was searching. I was even, I even went to a
church down the block from my mom house and you know, they,
they didn't offer me anything. I remember one lady, I was so
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drunk one time, one lady or old lady, and I started talking to
her about God, like who is God? Like who is that?
Everybody keep talking about God, who is God.
And I remember she gave me 3 John 316.
And still to this day that that message stuck with me.
So once, once I found out, I said, OK, I'm going to get
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myself together. I'm going to go look for a job.
That's when I actually found theUniversal Church, because in the
window it had every day of the week, something like Mondays,
they had financial. Yeah.
So I assume, like, I didn't really read it because that same
day I was a little bit hungover.Like I still was a little bit
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hungover. And, you know, but I said I'm
not going to drink. I'm going to go search for a job
and my uncle is like, Oh, they doing Flyers on pick and go, go
see if you get hired. So I stumbled in the church like
that and then the pastor would just like, oh, come back
tomorrow. We're going to talk about it.
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So then I sobered up that day and then I came.
But the the cycle was like it was rough for the transition was
rough. The conversion was rough in the
beginning. I didn't.
I was there, but I didn't believe.
I even came to a point where I tested God and I said I'm not
going to come to the church for one week and I want to see the
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difference. I want to see what's the
difference if I come to church and if I don't, or I want to see
the difference with God and without God.
So I didn't come to the church for a whole week and Bishop
still to this day, that week is the worst week of my life.
In that week I, I got so drunk like never before.
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I, I slept in the street. I slept in the street like 2
days. I lost my phone, I lost my job
like I lost everything. And then one day that Saturday I
was like, OK, I, I get it. I understand.
I see now. So then that Sunday I went back
to the church and then no one said nothing.
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The only thing the pastor said was, did you figure out what it
is that you needed to figure out?
I say yes. So I've been there ever since
because I've seen the difference.
How long have you been in church?
I don't even, I've been in church for four years, Bishop.
Four years in the Universal Church, Geneva.
What has God done for you? Who is Geneva inside?
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Oh, Geneva Situs. I have peace, Bishop.
I have the Holy Spirit. I know that no matter what
happens, what happens around me,I, I am going to be OK.
Like it doesn't matter what happens with my family with
nothing. I know that I'm going to be OK.
I don't have the desire to do all this craziness.
I forgiven the people I've hurt.I forgiven.
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I asked for forgiveness for the I've heard it like I'm very,
very peaceful. I have joy inside of me.
So no more drugs, no more parties.
You have changed in every every aspect of your life.
Every aspect. I don't need women anymore.
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I don't even dress like a boy. I don't you can tell boy
anymore. We saw your.
Pictures pretty well. We saw your pictures here.
We we can see the before and theafter.
But tell me, when you came into this ministry, did anybody judge
you for your appearance, for your looking?
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You look like a boy, walk like aboy.
Did anybody say no in just church?
We do not accept any lesbian. No, the total opposite.
I felt like family. Like it was the first time I
actually felt like a real family.
When I came to the church, no one judged me.
They even embraced me even more.And I found it really odd
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because used to sit like in the back and I would look to see if
anybody was looking at me. Like I used to try to fix myself
because I thought people were staring at me and when in truth
no one was paying me, no mine, no one was paying me any mind.
Everybody was focused. I mean, so Geneva, thank you
very much for your story, your testimony.
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That was the address of the church that you attended to
there in New York City. So I attend 2006 Fulton St.,
Brooklyn, NY 11233. Thank you very much.
God bless. All the best.
Geneva. Bye, bye.
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You see, my friend, it's possible.
It's possible to change. It's possible to have a new
life. If you are watching me, you are
a lesbian. Come, homosexual come drug
dealer, selling, using drugs, doing drugs.
Come as you are. The Universal Church is open for
everybody. All are welcome.
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It doesn't matter where you're from or what you did.
If you're the top half or bottomhalf, if you have it all or
nothing at all, if you're the hero or the villain, white or
black, regardless of gender or orientation.
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With your own religion or lack thereof.
With a dark past. Or not so bright future if you
feel loved or never felt loved, regardless of age or
nationality. Here there is a place for
everyone. For God does not show
favoritism. Romans 211, the universal
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church. We're all are more than welcome.
Prepare your cup of water in a few.
Bishop Joshua will be praying for you.
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Don't stop listening. Soul food has more to feed you.
You are listening to soul food with Bishop Joshua.
We'll be right back. Dear Lee, how do you do?
I might be 5-10, maybe 15 years from you.
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Dear me, do you still live? And do you still live your life?
The song you don't even like. Like a button.
Without a stream flying away, may the gods most be your.
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Dear me, how do you call and howdo you live your life?
The song You don't come on like a bone clean on the street far
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away. May the cosmos real Come this
way in wherever I am. Dear me, how do you do now that
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I'm far 10, maybe 15 years from you?
It's now the moment of prayer. Let us talk to God.
Here I am in this moment of prayer, so despised without
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love. Need to talk with my Lord.
Oh my Lord, come quickly and help me.
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We are going to pray now. Please close your eyes.
Oh Lord my God, this is what this person needs right now, to
come out of this miserable life,a life of pain, a life of
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suffering, a life of tears that cannot take it anymore.
They are unwanted, unloved, theyare being beaten, treated like
nothing. Oh Jesus, Jesus, rescue,
Disperser. Right now the make of the truth
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is about it. Revealing to Disperser that they
can stop suffering and they havea new life.
Spirit of the living God, come to change, come to transform
their lives. Water into wine, Bless those who
are in prison behind the bars. I know, Lord, they have made
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mistakes. They have perhaps killed
somebody, raped somebody. They have done evil.
But you are a forgiving God and you are a God that gives chance
and a New Hope. My Lord, Jesus, bless those who
are in the hospital. Huge dispersal from the disease,
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from this asthma. Let dispersed be set free, O
Lord, once and for all God of the Bible, O Lord, let dispersed
be set free and have your peace.This is what I pray in the name
of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ name
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Amen. Praise God, Amen.
If you have your glass of water,you may drink it is blessed.
When you feel the sunlight fade into the cold night, you don't
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know where to turn. You don't know where to turn and
do all the dreams you're dreaming you seem to lose.
There ain't any only in the world.
The Lord Jesus Christ you be always there for you.
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The helpline is too available for you.
May the God of the Bible bless all of you.
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