Hi, my name is Mary Harvel. I am 39 years old and I have two beautiful children who are my babies. Noah is my oldest and he really isn’t a baby anymore. In fact, he is a senior in high school. I call him my “man-child” and I couldn’t be more proud of the young man he is. He just started his first job while still maintaining school and sports. My youngest is my daughter Eliana. She is 12 years old and is in her first year of middle school. She isn’t a baby anymore either, she is the baby. Providing for them and securing their future is my #1 priority. They are my entire world.

This has been the hardest season of our lives. I would like to say that is due to the pandemic, but that has just been the cherry on top. In February 2014, God brought me out of the darkness of the adult entertainment industry, which I had been in my whole adult life. He whispered to me in the middle of the chaos and said, “You can come with me and start something new, or you can stay here and continue to do what you have always done”. I chose to leave that very night.

Since then it has been a journey… a journey of self-discovery, a journey of healing, and above-all, a journey of faith. As much as I would like to say that we all made it, we didn’t. My husband of 18 years, my best friend, and the father of my children chose to go on his own journey. He refuses to communicate with us, to help us financially, or to acknowledge us whatsoever.

We have all prayed for God to restore and to redeem our family. This has tested our faith like nothing before. This situation has tried its best to push me back into the darkness that God so graciously brought me out of. After almost 3 years of contending for my marriage, I have finally come to accept that it may not be what is in God’s will for my life.

Throughout this season I have struggled to support my family on my own. I have babysat, waitressed, cleaned houses, and for the last year I have been working at Kroger. It is only by the grace of God that we have made it this far.

I’ve never done anything like this before, but I am fighting back. I am giving God the chance to show out through my friends, my family, and maybe even people I don’t know. I am asking for help in order to move forward with a divorce. I am asking God to make a way out of no way. It is time for me and my babies to move forward and start this next chapter of our lives. I am ready to step into all God has in store for us.

I am humbly asking for any amount you are able to give. Every little bit will help tremendously and I will be forever grateful for anyone who is willing to give. If you have read this far, thank you for taking the time to listen to my story.  If you are not able to donate, please keep me and my children in your thoughts  and prayers. Thank you so much.

Mary Harvel