[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/ugBoZW6xNYk'] Ethan: Finding Purpose in Life Ethan has believed in God since he was a little boy. “But my whole life was a struggle to find Him,” he says. “I was looking in all the wrong places.” He developed a destructive lifestyle that included alcohol and drugs...
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/qTcM5I8cagQ'] Eldra grew up in the “projects” of Chicago, surrounded by gang violence that influenced his life. “You drink, you gamble, you sell drugs… That was my routine,” he explains. Although his grandmother taught him about Jesus, “I chose the streets instead of a spiritual...
[vc_video link='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dI5ZKTXDeg&t=1s'] “I was broken when I came here. I had no life left in me.” Fran’s father died when she was 15, ending years of sexual abuse. But it didn’t end the damage that was done to her sense of worth and self-esteem. At 17, she started drinking…...
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/DhBC9VjQel0'] “David struggled with life,” says his father, Rick. “He had everything we thought we could offer. We tried so many things to help him get better.” But nothing seemed to make an impact...
Enjoy this Rockford Register Star story by Georgette Braun about the Labak family and David's Closet....
“I go by a new name now,” says Rex, a recent graduate of our Life Recovery Program. “Resurrected Rex,” as he refers to himself today, describes perfectly the transformation that has taken place in his life since coming to the Mission. At age 28, he surrendered...
It was while in our Life Recovery Program that John began to understand the root cause of the anxiety and depression he’d struggled with for years – and that had consumed most of his adult life… “My parents fighting… hearing the screaming at night… never knowing...
The youngest of 11 siblings, Shirley’s life was empty of the acceptance and affirmation children need to grow up self-confident and strong. As a teenager, “I went looking for love in all the wrong places,” she says. It was a futile search resulting in a cycle...
Paul was a talented hockey player and the apple of his father’s eye. But when he was injured and no longer a “star,” his dad lost interest in him. Heartbroken by his father’s rejection, he fell in with the wrong crowd. “I started partying, smoking weed and...
“My mom left home when I was 10 years old,” Glenda shares. “And my father never really cared for me.” So she bounced around from place to place… staying with friends or relatives… never having a place to call home or feeling she was part...
