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Resources for Families
Articles, testimonies, and updates to help families navigate recovery with hope.
How Could You Help Someone Else If You Can't Help Your Own Family?
My dad started a recovery ministry while watching addiction tear through his own kids. The enemy told him he had no business helping anyone. The enemy was wrong.
Who Founded Teen Challenge?
Don Wilkerson answered his brother's call, moved to Brooklyn, and spent 60 years building the program that Teen Challenge centers worldwide still use today.
Getting Clean Wasn't the Hard Part
The co-founder of Teen Challenge told me getting clean and being transformed are two different things. He's right. Sobriety is the starting line, not the finish.
Your Ministry Doesn't Have to Be the Answer. It Just Has to Know Where the Answer Is.
Not every person who walks through your door belongs in your program. The most Christ-like thing a recovery ministry can do is connect families to the help that actually fits.
Met in the Road
We think repentance is about convincing God to stop being angry with us. It's not. He's running down the road to meet us before we even get the apology out.
As you lay there in your blood
God saw you when no one else did. He didn't wait until you cleaned yourself up. He found you in the field and spoke life over you
We're Not Closing. We're Relaying the Foundation.
We filmed this in the empty chapel at Teen Challenge. No students, no program running, just me and Rob in a room that used to be full. It hit different. But this isn't a goodbye. We're not closing. We're relaying the foundation and building something new.
Can I Watch Joy?
My three-year-old doesn't ask to watch Inside Out. She asks to watch Joy.
Has Worrying Ever Helped?
Has worrying ever made your life better? Has anxiety ever solved a single problem? I can examine a small issue from 1,752 angles and turn it into a full-blown crisis by Tuesday.
The Cost of Ministry Nobody Talks About
Twenty years of overdose calls, unanswered prayers, and friends who disappeared taught me the real cost of calling. Nobody puts that part in the brochure.
Moving Forward in Ministry After Loss
Ministry transition forced us to confront a hard question: are we honoring what God did, or camping out at a memorial stone and missing what He's doing next?
Rocco's Story: Destroyed it all in 30 days
Rocco spent 17 years in addiction. He built 3.5 years of recovery, lost it in 30 days, then found his way back.