About Us
Our Story
Delbert and Jenny Hill
Founders, COLF and The Covering
For many years, Central Ohio Living Free (COLF) founders Delbert and Jenny Hill have opened their home to dozens of people in need - friends, family, and strangers.
They have been family to many men and women in the process of personal and financial growth, walking with the Lord, parenting, and more. They will be the first to tell you that they are far from perfect, and that it was only when their own pain became too much and they came to the end of themselves that they found God in a real way and that He knows the best way to live.
Since 2008, they have sought to love God and love people with their whole lives - their finances, their schedules, and most of all - their home.
In 2016, they officially formed Central Ohio Living Free, which includes both an outreach branch and an open room (or five!) in their home. If you ask them, they will tell you that their heart is just to love the person in front of them. And by God's grace, they have a Big House to do that in.
Our Mission
Redeeming women’s lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ in a Christian home: rebuilding family.
Our Vision
Equip and empower families in God-centered homes to live out the gospel to the glory of God.
Core Beliefs
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Sanctity of Human Life. The Corporation/Organization believes that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death. The Corporation/Organization is therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life, beginning at conception (Psalm 139).
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Biblical Lifestyle and Sexuality. The Corporation/Organization stands firmly upon the truth claims and moral foundation of the Biblical Christianity. This includes, but is not limited to: the Biblical definition of marriage; the attendant boundaries of sexuality and moral conduct; and the clear Biblical teaching that gender is both sacred and established by God’s design. Persons who choose to participate in any way in the activities of the Corporation/Organization are agreeing to support these and other basic Biblical beliefs derived from Scripture.
These beliefs oppose and prohibit living in, practicing, condoning or supporting sex outside of marriage, adultery, homosexuality, bi-sexuality, bestiality, incest, gender identity different than the birth sex chromosomal level, pornography, or other sexual immorality (Leviticus 20:13a, Romans 1:27, Matthew 19:4-6).
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Marriage. The Corporation/Organization believes that every person is created in the image of God, and that human sexuality reflects that image in terms of intimate love, communication, fellowship, and subordination of the self. The Scriptures use the marriage relationship as the supreme metaphor for God’s relationship with His covenant people. Therefore, God’s plan for human sexuality is that it is to be expressed only in a monogamous, lifelong relationship between one man and one woman within the framework of marriage. This is the only relationship that is divinely designed for the birth and rearing of children. The Corporation/Organization believes that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Genesis 1:27-28; 2:18, 20, 23-24; Isaiah 54:4-8; 62:5b; Jeremiah 3:14; Ezekiel 16; Hosea 2; Malachi 2:14; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:9; Ephesians 5:23-32; Hebrews 13:4; and Revelation 19:7-8).
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Gender. The Corporation/Organization believes that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. A person’s rejection of his or her biological sex is a rejection of the image of God reflected in that person (Genesis 1:26-27).
To take away confusion, Central Ohio Living Free (COLF) is the parent 501c3/nonprofit, organized back in 2016 to focus on outreach and provide Biblical hospitality.
As we found that we needed more structure to the residential/transitional living side of our ministry, however, (and after much prayer and labor), COLF launched The Covering (DBA) as the residential branch of our ministry in 2021.