While the ceremony might not be taking place when they would have liked there's still a celebration happening for a life changed through the healing power of God.

Momeena just finished her coursework for Adult & Teen Challenge of Central Canada. For now, her graduation ceremony has been postponed until it's safer to gather people together. But she is used to overcoming adversity.

The 20-year-old woman experienced extreme abuse at the hands of her birth mother from a very young age. "That really tore something out of me when I was young," she says in her testimony video. As a result of the abuse, she was placed in foster care at the age of three-years-old.

Bouncing around several foster homes she says, "I always just felt rejected by everyone that took care of me. I did not feel like I had any value. I didn't know why I was put on this earth and for what reason."

The abuse and feelings of rejection led her to struggle with thoughts of suicide. She also began using illicit substances at the age of 14. "I just wanted to be loved," she says.

"At the age of 12, I was adopted by an amazing family." That family enrolled her into a private Christian school, and Momeena says "I had to look like I had it all together, but inside, I was so empty. I was so hurt."

Momeena eventually began using a combination of meth, heroin, and fentanyl. "I lost myself - I totally lost myself."

'I found God'

Momeena was placed in the Adult & Teen Challenge program, and it was there she says "I found God. He was there for me the whole time."

She says that she knows now that God understands her hurts and pain. Best of all, she's discovered importance about her identity in Christ.

"I have worth," she says. "And the love that He has for me, I can't even comprehend. I can love others, because Christ loves me. I wasn't able to do that before."

She quotes Psalm 18:5-6 in closing:

The grave wrapped its ropes around me;
   death laid a trap in my path.
But in my distress I cried out to the Lord;
   yes, I prayed to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
   my cry to him reached his ears. (NLT)