Lisa Kapp provides second chances with Beautiful Deliverance

For 10 years, Beautiful Deliverance founder Lisa Kapp has used her personal past as an inspiration to help those in need with her nonprofit ministry, Beautiful Deliverance.

Kapp created the ministry after she became established in her faith and active in being an evangelist.

“At the age of 35, my life turned around. I started going to this church called Living Word Fellowship, and it was one of the best things to ever happen in my life,” Kapp said.

“A couple here in Vicksburg led me to church and stood with me for the next 10 years, and they just taught me the word of God, and in the midst of all that, I started doing jail ministry, and that led me to young women that were very broken, who would come out of jail and wouldn’t have a place to go.

“I started researching places to get them saved or to take them to or to help them with the struggles of life. Through that, I met so many people, and Beautiful Deliverance was born.”

Since its creation, Kapp has used Beautiful Deliverance as an outlet to help people who are former felons, suffered from drug addiction or have simply fallen upon bad times. The organization helps them re-enter society by showing them that they are more than what they’ve gone through. Beautiful Deliverance continues to minister to the residents, and assist them with court trials and finding new jobs.

“When people come to us, they’re in transition,” Kapp said. “We’re a year long program. The first six months the young women are in classes learning how to be who God created them to be and showing them that they can conquer anything. The next six months are spent reintroducing them into the world.

“We work really close with Goldie’s Trail Barbecue  and the Gumbo Pot (restaurants) as they have always hired our girls without hesitation.”

Though Kapp has been more than successful with her ministry, she admits that it takes the help of the community to continue moving the Beautiful Deliverance ministry forward.

“We are a complete nonprofit organization,” she said. “We function completely off of donations, and sometimes we go out to different churches and speak to try and solicit donations. 

“We are really blessed that the churches around here are really helping.”