About USM Church and History

About United Street Ministries Church History

			Our Founder/Director Rev. Alice Bendzula struggled with drugs and alcoholism for years. Her life was on a downhill slide. She lost her brother age 33 and mother age 55 on Christmas Eve to suicide in her house basement. Father passed away from lung and brain cancer. She lost everything in a house fire. She suffered through bankruptcy, more than once. She suffered injuries, on many occasions, from numerous car collisions, resulting in years, of physical therapy and hospital stays.


She suffered from physical and emotional abuse for years, all from unhealthy relationships. She had two failed marriages. She is blessed with a daughter and a grandson out of the first marriage. She also suffered, injuries to the hands, arms, nose, collarbone, back, neck, ribs, legs and foot. On another occasion, she was labeled as a victim of crime and awarded money, only to lose it all from financial burdens due to medical expenses. She signed herself in a mental health unit a couple of times to help her cope.

She suffered on a few occasions, near death experiences. She was attacked by strangers on the streets and suffered a severe beating with a wooden clog to the left temple, causing the left side of her face to collapse; This beating had racial, hatred intentions, which resulted in five reconstructive surgeries to repair the damage. She had years of epilepsy, and was healed. She was healed of high blood pressure and borderline diabetes. She also had colon surgery to reconstruct her colon, due to prolapse.

Rev. Alice Bendzula worked for three years as a department head at Lovelines Crisis Ministry Connection as a counselor/deliverance minister. Rev. Alice walked with her mother on occasion, with the love of Jesus and asking many into their home. She has shared her home with hundreds of people over the years, for a warm meal and change of clothes; she shared the Gospel, with the love of Jesus. She has given hundreds rides to doctor appointments, jobs, driver license, giving the resources to help make change, and assistance for apartments. She has walked as a sister, mother, grandma and friend to many. She continues this way of life up to the present time. As a child Rev. Alice use to every year sell homemade Christmas items in the streets, to help her family, have a nice Christmas. In her youth she was a bell ringer for a couple seasons. Rev. Alice has evangelized the streets of Minneapolis for over ten years, handing out food, bibles, tracts and asking if they need a place to stay. Rev Alice has throughout the city started several food programs and bible study for the homeless. She held a choir with the homeless for over a year out of a local converted school in a downtown Minneapolis building. She worked at two local missions for about eight years. She graduated from A.W. Bible College, Oliver Thein Beauty School, St.Thomas Business Ministry course, and is now attending College at Axia Phoenix online for Business Administration to help her teach other’s effectively, to the fullest capacity, God has ordained for her to minister to others. Rev. Alice is an Ordained Minister with I.M.F. of Fridley, Minnesota. Recently the Lord has opened the doors of a rented building titled under a 501c3 named, United Street Ministries Mission, service & meal on Saturday nights, started in April 2007. Now she professes to the people of the streets, about the love of Jesus Christ her Lord and Savior. About the working of Miracles, healing and deliverance, along with a gift of prophetic annointing she shares with all in need.