Durango couple opens home to the convicted and downtrodden

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Durango couple opens home to the convicted and downtrodden

The Geraghtys believe in providing second chances at Phoenix House
Gerry Geraghty and his wife, Lauren, at their Rio Vista Circle home on Friday, have welcomed more than 100 recovering addicts and ex-convicts into their private home since 2001. Their house is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and sober-living home called Phoenix Fellowship.
Gerry Geraghty, right, talks with one of his tenants, Leverette Begay, who is a recovering alcoholic. Begay has lived with the Geraghtys for about six months, renting a room downstairs in the split-level house.
Gerry Geraghty, at his home on Friday, is very involved with inmates at the La Plata County Jail through a local chapter of Good News Jail & Prison Ministry, a Christian nonprofit that serves in correctional facilities.
Leverette Begay, a recovering alcoholic, in his rented room on Friday at the Geraghty house. Begay said he enjoys going to church with the Geraghty family because it “helps to get my head right.”

Durango couple opens home to the convicted and downtrodden

Gerry Geraghty and his wife, Lauren, at their Rio Vista Circle home on Friday, have welcomed more than 100 recovering addicts and ex-convicts into their private home since 2001. Their house is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and sober-living home called Phoenix Fellowship.
Gerry Geraghty, right, talks with one of his tenants, Leverette Begay, who is a recovering alcoholic. Begay has lived with the Geraghtys for about six months, renting a room downstairs in the split-level house.
Gerry Geraghty, at his home on Friday, is very involved with inmates at the La Plata County Jail through a local chapter of Good News Jail & Prison Ministry, a Christian nonprofit that serves in correctional facilities.
Leverette Begay, a recovering alcoholic, in his rented room on Friday at the Geraghty house. Begay said he enjoys going to church with the Geraghty family because it “helps to get my head right.”
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