Kathy Bogie and Ciara Lillie launch post-incarceration program for women in Texas
Magdalene House Kerrville—a sister organization of the program in Nashville, Tennessee—serves survivors of sex trafficking, prostitution, and addiction.
Ciara Lillie, site manager, and Kathy Bogie, executive director, on the front porch at Magdalene House Kerrville in Texas. Photo by Laura Shaver, Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.
Kathy Bogie was pondering how she could best serve God in her retirement when she heard Becca Stevens speak to the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.
Stevens told the story of founding the Magdalene program in Nashville, Tennessee, which serves women who have survived sex trafficking, prostitution, and addiction and employs them through a social enterprise project, Thistle Farms.
“That’s it,” Bogie said. As a nurse practitioner, she had noticed women coming in for a quick medical exam and to be tested for sexually transmitted infections.
