"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."
Psalm 147:3
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About Betty Lara
Betty worked in the corporate/business world for more than 30 years. During that tenure she managed large accounts, established project guidelines, implemented internal information technology needs, and set up support structures in several major U.S. corporations. Eventually, she opened her own Real Estate Development business and oversaw all the Operational development of the business.
After working in the business and corporate world, she shifted to assist the Senior and Executive pastors of a large church in Miami, Florida where she worked for over eight years. Betty led the Global Leadership Summit for several years, helping to increase the attendance of over 350 community leaders. She also started a ministry of healing within the church for those that needed spiritual. emotional healing and freedom.
Betty as an ordained Pastor, speaker and author has traveled extensively with her husband Dr. Rene Pelleya-Kouri. For over 16 years Love and Fire Ministries has helped hundreds get free from all types of traumas such as abuse, depression, rejection, abandonment, sickness, unforgiveness and many unhealed wounds from childhood. They have done extensive travel to equip and evangelize the body of Christ in places such as Cuba, Ecuador, Switzerland, Tanzania, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Pakistan, Uganda, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. Their ministry has supported Watoto Orphanage in Tanzania, Africa helping hundreds of children, as well as women that have been trafficked.
As Executive Director, Betty served at Glory House of Miami for over 12 years. The mission of Glory House is to “Reach, Rescue, and Restore” adult survivors of human trafficking. Betty took this new endeavor to lead Glory House, open the first long-term safe home in Miami, Florida where survivors could receive healing and restoration thru offering wrap-around services at no cost. Hundreds of survivors have been helped through this ministry.
Betty Lara is now taking all of her personal experience gleaned through business, ministry, and in her many travels in which she helping survivors as well as discipling women, in order for them to experience "Healing, Restoration, and Freedom."
What Betty Lara Does...
Welcome to my website! I have been working with women for many years, including those that have been damaged greatly by being trafficked, one of the hardest things I have ever dealt with. My passion has always been to mentor women so they can fulfill their calling, walk in their destiny and live out their dreams. It is a joy for me to see the freedom women experience and how they are thriving after I have mentored them.
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I have seen the value of having a mentor that has helped me walk through difficult situations, having the freedom to share things that I can’t share with others. I wish I would have had a mentor at a much younger age, this would have prevented a lot of heartache and helped me to avoid the wrong decisions I made. I also enjoy seeing women grow in the spiritual, emotional, and relational journey. It is an honor for me to have created an 8-week mentorship experience to fit your unique needs and lifestyle.
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As a Christian for over thirty-one years, I believe it is important to have biblical faith as the foundation for the mentorship I offer. God is front and center of everything that I do as a mentor. I believe His word can give wisdom, strategies and principles of how to handle any problem.
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As an ordained minister for over seven years that has helped and prayed for many women in all different spheres of influence, most of them have expressed a need for a mentor, especially while they are going through difficult times. They have all expressed they would like to have a person that they can trust and can share confidential information with, as well as having someone to walk with them. These women usually have taken care of everyone else except for themselves, and they find a time of refreshing when a mentor can help and guide them.
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In addition to being a business owner, serving for two Pastors in the South Florida area, and leading a non-profit organization for over a decade, I am someone who has gone through my own journey of emotional healing, restoration and freedom in many areas of my life. After many years of trauma, abuse, loss, depression and other negative circumstances I have personally experienced, I can truly say that I have joy, peace, and love as I have made Christ the center of my life. God has also restored my family and finances that the enemy stole from me.
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Although my mentorship program focuses on healing, restoration, and freedom, I also focus on the possibilities that lie ahead for each woman. God is in the business of increase, abundance, and breakthrough, and he desires to see his children thrive and walk in freedom.
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Whether you are desiring mentorship because of a recent divorce, issues with your children, depression and/or afflicted emotions, clarity for a difficult situation you are going through, healing from trauma, or you simply need more wisdom or help in setting goals, it would be an honor for me to serve as your mentor.
