Isaac was delivered from addiction in 2002. He was lost in addiction and was court-ordered to a year-long Christ-centered recovery program where he met Christ and found freedom from addiction. As he found peace and freedom from addiction, he felt a burden to share this freedom with other people struggling with addiction. While attending the Foundary School of Ministry, he met his future wife, Rana, and married her in December 2004 after graduating. After graduating, Isaac went to work at a non-profit residential program. Beginning as a counselor and dorm supervisor for his first year there, he was then promoted to men’s program director where he served for the next 9 years. During his time there, the program grew from 30 men to 250 men and 60 women. He was also instrumental in helping to start the new women’s program. In 2014, they felt that their season was up at that ministry, and God began to put the vision of Big Fish Ministries in their hearts. Big Fish Ministries was founded in April 2014 and Isaac and Rana moved to the Gulf Coast in Sept. 2014. The first building was leased in Jan. 2016 and Big Fish Ministries admitted their first resident on Feb. 29, 2016 (leap day). Since that time, the program has grown to house 25 men with a new women’s program that also launched in Apr. 2019 with the capacity to house 18 women. Big Fish Ministries has grown from leasing a small garage apartment to owning both facilities where the residents are housed and operating two thrift stores on Hwy. 59 in Foley. He and his wife Rana have two sons, Samuel born in 2007 and Jude born in 2013.

Rana was born again in 2008 at a Easter service in Woodstock, Alabama. Rana and Isaac met in 2002 and married two years later in 2004. The burden of Rana’s heart aligned with Isaac’s and after 10 years of serving at a men’s and women’s residential program in ministry in Anniston, Alabama, they founded Big Fish Ministries in April 2014. Rana and Isaac have two sons, Samuel born in 2007 and Jude born in 2013.

Tasha joined Big Fish Ministries in 2019 as a Women’s Program Mentor, where she helped lost and broken women be transformed through faith-based recovery. She currently serves as the Women’s Program Director where she continues to help women find redemption, hope, and freedom through Christ.

Tasha spent twenty years of her early life struggling with opiates and methamphetamines. She was delivered from addiction in 2016 after being court-ordered to attend The Lovelady Center, a year-long, Christ-centered recovery program in Birmingham, Alabama. At The Lovelady Center, Tasha encountered the love of Jesus and found freedom from the chains of addiction. She soon began working in the Intake Department at The Lovelady Center where she discovered her calling to guide people out of the darkness to find freedom through Christ.

She lives in Foley with her husband David and their three children, Adrian, Nikolai, and Jessie.

Vicki was born and raised in Carbondale, IL. As a licensed social worker, she worked for 30 years in varying social work capacities, including consultant work and being a state ombudsman — an official appointed to investigate concerns with businesses and public entities and help bring resolution and remediation to problem areas. When she and her husband, Brent, moved to Fairhope, she began coordinating groups of volunteers to go into the BFM women's residential homes to host activities and prayer, which ultimately led to her position on our team. "I can't sit around when someone needs help," she says about stepping into this role coordinating outpatient services. She adds, "I love the Lord. He's the one I want to please. I'm all-in."

Dennis grew up in a dysfunctional home and, by the time he was 16, found himself facing five years with the juvenile corrections agency of Texas. Instead, he was ultimately taken in by Youth-Reach Houston, a Christ-centered ministry that gives a fresh chance to troubled teen boys. Although Dennis tried to run from God after that, the seeds that were planted in his youth came to harvest as Dennis became an adult. After several years of spiritual growth, God opened the door for Dennis and his wife to move to Alabama so that he could become a part of Big Fish Ministries. Dennis coordinates intake and also works in our transitional program, creating accountability and discipleship when our residents graduate and reenter the culture.

Zondra Watson is the BFM Women's Program Mentor. In this role, she walks alongside students in recovery, supporting them through each step of their healing process.

“The Lord told me very audibly about a year and a half ago that he wants me to minister to women on many levels, which personally threw me for a loop since I have always strayed away from women due to our ‘multiple personalities’,” Zondra laughed.

When the Lord impressed this call on her heart, she knew she had to start taking steps forward in preparation for the work he would reveal to her. Zondra’s experience leading multiple small groups, as well as her involvement with her church’s prayer team, laid the foundation for the Lord’s next assignment.

“My heart has been very broken towards women who walk in pain daily but either don’t see their own pain, or they do see it but have no idea what to do to fix it,” she said.

The BFM residential women’s recovery program offers a safe, home-like environment that fosters healing and promotes growth. Our Christ-centered approach to recovery includes biblical counseling, case management, educational assistance and more to help women fulfill their God-given callings.
“By helping women understand God’s Word and the promise that he truly loves them no matter what they have done, they can move on from their addiction and live the life God has for them,” Zondra said.

Reina Rios came to Big Fish Ministries to get clean after using drugs on and off for 13 years. During her journey of healing, she became an intern at Big Fish Thrift Shops. When she graduated from the recovery program in November 2021, she was promoted to store manager.

“Big Fish Ministries is absolutely amazing,” she said. “I love them and I consider each one of them family.”

Reina has a beautiful son named Raphael.