Bolivar retail outlet created to support those in need

Larry Skrant and Michayla Sweeney operate the Cross Thrift Store in Bolivar.
Larry Skrant and Michayla Sweeney operate the Cross Thrift Store in Bolivar.
The Cross Thrift Store carries a wide variety of items.

Larry Skrant can relate to the expressing “been there finished that.”

Skrant invest a full of 12 decades incarcerated for domestic violence, an 18-calendar year drug habit and other crimes. He missing almost everything … his property, his spouse and loved ones.  

“I gave my lifetime to the Lord when serving time,” he reported. “I acquired a letter from a daughter inquiring ‘Do you don’t forget me?’

 “It broke me. My daily life changed. I commenced to analyze the Bible, which was more than 10,000 hrs in a 6-year period of time.  I just want to share with persons what adjusted my life and what peace I have. My daily life is about praising the Lord.” 

Skrant is the founder, operator and director of Addicts at the Cross Thrift Retailer located at 358 Edgebrook Blvd. in Bolivar. Skrant is also the minister of Adjusted Life Ministries at Strasburg. The thrift store and Transformed Lives Ministries merged on June 1.

Improved Lives Ministries is positioned at 1201 N. Wooster Avenue in Strasburg. 

Skrant opened the thrift store with strategies to use the proceeds to open up a restoration dwelling for girls with drug habit. It will be known as “Victoria’s Position,” in memory of his 32-year-outdated daughter, who handed away two decades back from taking fentanyl. 

Skrant mentioned Victoria was an insurance policies underwriter and began applying medication though residing in Detroit. She requested to come house and desired to live a standard life. She was in a restoration plan for

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