Cover Story... I’m a New Man!

A local newspaper story referred to Nathan as a “pillar of the drug world.” The judge who sent him to our Rays of Hope program rather than prison called him,“A poster child for someone who should go to jail.” But today, Nathan, a drug user for 25 years, is a new man!

Nathan talks excitedly about the changes that have happened in the last year and a half,“I’d go into a program or jail for two or three years then be out for a month and start using again. It’s an ugly vicious cycle. I had this big desire to change, but I couldn’t do it on my own. I’d get a nice job, working at the refinery or something, making big bucks and then just all of a sudden I’d fall back in.”

Nathan was in jail when he gave his life to Christ. “Just like it says in Jeremiah 29:13, ‘You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’ Then the changes started taking place and it’s been awesome ever since, especially this program at Mission SOLANO.”

Thanks to our donors who support programs like Rays of Hope, Nathan is about to celebrate a year and a half of being drug free. “I’m not turning back. I never dreamed that I’d be doing this. It’s cool. God really changes lives!”

Nathan

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from Sunday November 12, 2006 (2.58MB)
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