The road to recovery begins with making the tough and humbling decision to seek help. While treatment is certainly an important part of recovery, true transformation is key. From my own experience after having gone through Adult and Teen Challenge in Neosho, Missouri, the program provides an amazing opportunity for you to find the hope and healing you or your loved one is so desperately in need of.
I had heard so much about Nicky Cruz, David Wilkerson, and the Teen Challenge program growing up as a missionary kid, so I knew exactly where to turn when I was in need of help for my own life. The program provided me a year to step out of the world I had created and seek the mercy, grace, and healing power of God. When I sought help and entered the program, He began a new work in me. He gave me hope and a vision of the life I could lead if I would allow Him to change my heart, my mind, and my life—and so I surrendered whole-heartedly. Today after graduating the program I am back home with my family— free from alcohol addiction, crippling depression and anxiety, and seeking to fulfill a calling God gave me when I was just starting high school, to reach broken and hurting young people. It’s a calling I have ran from, but have never forgotten. I may be late in answering, but not late on what He can do with my testimony and a life dedicated to serving Him. I’m excited to begin writing a new chapter in my life and see what He has in store. And I'm certain that you too can find extravagant help from the One who delights in, and has the power to turn lives around in an extravagant way.
Find out more about the Adult and Teen Challenge program and locate a center near you today at www.TeenChallengeUSA.org