About Us

BJ Garret

Selah Life Choices is a new nonprofit in East Texas which exists to serve women being trafficked or at risk for human trafficking through our confidential services. We will offer a safe space for healing to begin while we compassionately reflect Jesus to all we encounter. Selah will serve as a ‘Stabilization Center’ for the first 90 days after rescue and our services will help each woman to find the hope, support and tools needed to continue on the path of wholeness, healing and freedom. Selah will have an LPC on staff to help provide mental health support and trauma therapy as well as housing for up to 90 days. We will offer basic necessities including food, clothing, activities, counseling and more. Selah will help women with the next steps of their recovery, while securing longer term housing and support for them at another established facility. Through area partnerships and referrals we will also offer tangible help including medical and dental care and other services as needed.

Serving as Executive Director is BJ Garrett, a survivor of familial sex trafficking herself. BJ has called East Texas home since early childhood and despite the challenges faced, BJ has emerged as an exceptional leader, recognized as both an award-winning author and an acclaimed speaker. With a passion for making a difference, she has dedicated years to running and serving the nonprofit sector, utilizing her expertise to bring about meaningful change in the lives of survivors and vulnerable communities.

Through her powerful storytelling and extensive experience, BJ continues to inspire and educate audiences around the world, shedding light on the pressing issue of sex trafficking and advocating for justice and support for survivors.

Board President, Rocky Gill states, “We look forward to partnerships with local law enforcement and agencies and we invite our East Texas community to learn how they can help support this effort. We are looking for opportunities to share at churches, small groups, community groups, businesses, civic organizations and more”.

Statement of Faith

  • 1 We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Old and New Testaments and hold them to be the inerrant Word of God.
  • 2 We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • 3 We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man.
  • 4 We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which separates man from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and, in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word, and deed.
  • 5 We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative, substitutionary, and complete sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
  • 6 We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.
  • 7 We believe in the imminent coming of Christ for His Church and the visible and personal coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to establish His Kingdom.
  • 8 We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
  • 9 We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust.