Our Story

Overcomers on the Move was founded in 2017 by Director Kim Flynn. Her faith in Jesus, lived experience with mental health and addiction, and healing in recovery, inspired her to start a peer-led organization. “ My peers were my greatest strength and inspiration.” Kim learned in recovery she was not the only one that suffered from untreated trauma and substance use disorder. Her own journey consisted of many pathways to recovery-clinical counseling, peer support, faith-based support, and recovery programming in the community enabled Kim to experience long-term sobriety.

Generational trauma, incarceration, victimization by human trafficking, and failed attempts at recovery from substance use disorder lead Kim to envision helping others overcome these same issues.

In 2020 the Coronavirus pandemic brought new challenges for everyone. Many people were suffering from mental health crises, human trafficking, and substance use disorder, and people were overdosing at an alarming rate. The first Grace Gathering Outreach began with volunteers bringing homecooked food and hygiene items from their homes. They started in an empty parking lot on the Hilltop with the desire to share the love of God and instill hope. Many people in the community joined them for prayer, food, and resources. They decided that night they would be back every Friday.

Columbus First United Brethren Church gave them a space to grow and become a staple in the community. In the middle of a global pandemic, Overcomers on the Move began to nurture the Hilltop Community with care and concern. They supplied resources to help peers engage with services for mental health and substance use, anti-human trafficking, and assisted the unhoused.

In August 2022, they opened their first faith-based recovery housing program for women in transition. February 2023 they celebrated their first graduate from the program and are gaining respectful recognition from churches and behavioral health providers in the community.

Presently the board consists of peers and professionals who advocate for under-resourced populations.

“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”

Revelation 12:11 NKJV