When Rocky came to the Mission with a meth addiction nine years ago, he found much more than sobriety. He found a relationship with the Lord that would change the course of his life. “Through the program, the Lord delivered me from addiction and I started...
Patrik remembers lying awake in the hospital detox, wondering how he’d fallen so far. “Growing up was fine,” he says. “I graduated high school with high grades, went on to college, became a telemarketer, started making a lot of money and worked my way up to...
Curtis was getting high again, but this time, he was haunted by images of his grandchildren. “I thought of my children telling my grandkids that I was in a rehab or dead. I didn’t want them to have to tell that story.” Curtis started experimenting with drugs...
But with no money for a formal education, he was honing his culinary skills as best he could in fast food restaurants or wherever he found work as a cook. So when he learned that the Union Rescue Mission had a culinary job-training program, he...
When Greg was young, he wanted nothing more than his father’s approval. “I was always trying to get my dad to tell me I did a good job, but he never would,” Greg says. “I felt like he was ashamed of me.” Greg was saved when he...