ABOUT REDEEM CALIFORNIA
Our Founder, Kathy Chastain(Looper)
Kathy is a lifelong resident of California. She was born and raised in the central valley, the home to all things agriculture. Kathy has lived in both northern and southern California, and the bay area for a short time. She returned to her hometown 18 years ago where she has made her home.
Kathy Chastain is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Certified Daring Way Facilitator, based on the research of Brené Brown, Ph.D., LCSW and an ordained minister. She works full-time in her private practice, California Christian Counseling, where she uses evidenced based theory and Biblical based principles to help children, adolescents, teens, and adults work through their mental and behavioral health struggles.
Kathy founded of Last Arrow Ministries, Inc, a 501(c)3 non-profit, that equips people for a life of purpose through short term Bible and book studies.
Kathy has spent most of her adult life advocating for those in need. She has been a rape crisis counselor, worked in suicide loss as a counselor assisting families in the aftermath of suicide, she worked with young girls in juvenile detention and opened California’s 11th Licensed Runaway and Homeless Youth Shelter. Kathy has always believed one person could make a difference and has lived what she believes.
In 2018, Kathy was presented with “Volunteer of the Year” for California’s 26th District, by Assemblyman Devon Mathis for the work she did to build the runaway and homeless youth shelter.
Redeem California is a culmination of the years she has invested to help others and to make a difference in any way possible. Her deep conviction that God is a God of the impossible, has prompted her to challenge other believers to take God at his word. The need that exists in the hearts and lives of our fellow human is immense. There is so much need. There is a growing number of people who have lost hope. Suicide is at an all-time high, not to mention all the other ways people are held prisoner. Redeem California is a call to action. It is a plea to pray. It is a challenge to believe God for the impossible. It is a pathway to change the condition of California. Will you join her?
