“And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.” For me, this is one of the great assurances of God, that He completes what he starts. After 33 years of suffering and sacrifice for us, Jesus’ final declaration…
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” In our hurried and harried world, is this not a promise we all clamor for? Rest! As I interacted with people this week, the friendly conversations would usually turn to plans for Thanksgiving. One young lady simply told me…
Great News! Construction has begun on our long planned for and much awaited Community Center. This is a project that was part of the initial dream of His Way ten years ago, but has been worked on in earnest for the past year and a half. The trees have been taken down and the earth…
This year marks “10 Years in Recovery” at His Way. We had a great celebration this past weekend with current & formal residents, past & present staff members, Board Members, and volunteers!
From time to time, area youth groups will visit His Way to help with a project and/or encourage our residents. We wanted to share this letter from a 15 year old girl that visited His Way with her church group over Spring Break. Dear His Way, Hello! Some of you won’t know me, but my…
It has been said that addicts don’t build relationships, they take hostages. I dare say that that can be said for many more than just addicts. Because hostage taking in relationships happens every time I enter a relationship to get and not give. Every time a relationship is driven by a need to fill what…
As we celebrate 10 years of Christ-centered recovery ministry, I would like to reflect on success. When this ministry began, and known national recovery rates were less than 10%, we became very careful about how we defined success. As Christians, whose mission is primarily to sow the gospel, we defined success as “sowing the seeds…
My whole life I’ve used anything I could to cope with the feeling of being uncomfortable. I hated the feeling of being uncomfortable. I’ve had multiple ways to escape the feeling in the past. Being around a lot of people I don’t know, dive head first into my iPhone and get lost in social media.…