The moment is frozen in Brian Whitacres' mind: he is standing over a friend’s sink preparing to use a needle to inject heroin. Injecting the drug is something Brian promised himself he would never do, and he had broken so many promises and shattered many of his dreams already. Brian was homeless except that a friend let him stay at his apartment. It was that night over the sink, that Brian stopped himself from injecting the drug and started asking God for a way out.>>Learn More
		In high school, he seemed like an ideal teen. He was in advance placement math and science classes and loved to play soccer. From outward appearances, there was nothing to indicate in a few short years he would be deeply involved in drugs and crime. Daniel’s parents split up when he was five, and Daniel lived with his dad alone until his father re-married when Daniel was 13 and his stepmother and stepsister moved in. Daniel’s dad was strict about rules and finishing homework and had to balance his high stress job as a District Attorney with being a single father.>>Learn More
		Doug lay on the ground and screamed. He was screaming for God’s help. After using and selling meth for two and half years and many more years of alcohol abuse, he was at the end of his rope. Doug was walking to his Mom’s house and he stopped and sat on the bench and started to cry because he felt so lost and hopeless, and his pain became so intense he lay on the ground and screamed.>>Learn More
		Even though he was only six, Kurt remembers the older couple who drove him down a coastal highway with his body badly broken. “I didn’t know who they were, but they probably saved my life.” >>Learn More
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