After being delivered by God from a life torn apart by addiction, the Lord placed on my heart a desire to reach those whose lives are still being consumed by drugs & alcohol. By sharing His love, hope & peace we hope to reach those who have no one else to turn to. That those who are clenched in the hands of addiction will become new by renewing and transforming their lives by the transforming power of Jesus Christ.

I grew up in West Virginia in a normal average family with two loving parents and two sisters. I played in sports, rode motorcycles and vacationed at the beach like most kids growing up. I graduated from high school, worked for the State and in a few years started working at the local hospital. Shortly after I married and had two wonderful daughters.

One day I was injured on the job, I had hurt my back, and one of the doctors sent me to a pain clinic for treatment. I began taking a large amount of pain medication and lingering pain led to more doctors and more medication. Before long I was hooked on prescription pain medications and here is where the long downward spiral began.

My family had no idea what was about to happen to them. The first thing I lost was my good job; I then went from job to job sinking deeper into the world of drug addiction. I turned my back on God, my family & my friends and my life was now consumed with the constant pursuit of drugs. I tried to stop on my own a couple of times but couldn’t resist the hold drugs had on me.

By now I was also getting into legal trouble. My wife divorced me, I lost my family, my friends, my house and I was soon arrested for numerous felony charges of drug related crimes and sent to the regional jail. I had reached the end of my rope and rock bottom.

I couldn’t take anymore and had no one or no where to turn, or so I thought.

That’s when I turned back to what I had learned when I was young, I turned to God. I got on my knees in my cell and committed my life to Jesus Christ. God immediately began to take charge of me and change my life; I opened my heart to Him with prayer and by reading His word and He transformed me.

I spent the next 21 months in jail and was eventually convicted and sentenced. By God’s grace, my sentence was suspended and I was placed on probation. I am now serving God as the leader of a ministry that reaches out to those caught in the clutches of addiction.

II Corinthians 1:3-4: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.  Thanks be to God for his amazing grace.