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I was born and raised in a strong Christian home. My dad was a pastor for the younger years of my life. I was home-schooled until I was in grade nine when my parents sent me to a small private school where I very quickly rose in popularity among my teachers and peers, and before long I was leading chapels in school and speaking in youth group. In grade ten I was voted most likely to be the next Billy Graham. All of this attention at such a young age, and lacking the wisdom to know what to so with it I became very proud, and more and more began to think that I was doing all of it without God. After high school I spent two years on the missions field over seas I ministered to people and poured out of my self, and by the end I was dry and dead mentally, emotionally and physically because I wouldn't allow God to minister back to me. I was angry at God and man and thought I had them both figured out so I went home. Within a week of being home I started drinking and smoking. A week after that I was smoking pot, then one day a friend introduced me to speed and within a week I was hopelessly addicted. After eight months of hard use I had destroyed my life as I knew it. I thought that I would be stuck using for the rest of my life, but God got a hold of me again through my friends and family and I decided to go to Teen Challenge. Now after nineteen years in the church I finally know God for who He is and how awesome and indescribable His love is for me. I have given my whole life to Jesus and I will chase down the lost of this world and preach His name to anyone and everyone who will lend me an ear. Phil 3:7,8 |
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Mike K 's Testimony I was a rebel from the start. I was ten years old
when I found I fit in with the older boys. I started smoking cigarettes,
pot and drinking and by the age of 12 I had graduated to doing harder
drugs. I left home at fourteen and sold drugs to live and supply my habit.
I cleaned up for five and a half years about 14 years ago but I never
found God and still lived by my own rules. I came to the end when my sister
told me about Teen Challenge and asked me to go there. I said yes I would
go although I didn't believe in Christ and God had failed me when I prayed
to Him when I was 14 years old. The last day I used drugs was the day
that I walked through the Teen Challenge doors. God came to me in a strong
way. I never went through withdrawals, and I have also quit a 27 year
addiction to cigarettes. I was a broken man when I came here and all I
had left was to surrender. I have had a miraculous transformation in my
life since then. I rely on God for my life since I was only one step from
death before coming to Teen Challenge. I trust God for everything that
I need and I don't have to be in control anymore, the more I surrender
to Him the more He can do through me. "Taste and see that the LORD
is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him" Psalm 34:8 |