Changed Lives

What Happens at Teen Challenge, New Hampshire ?    Jean Oathout- "Offering the proven cure for drug or alcohol abuse is a way of life for Teen Challenge.    In addition to its residential recovery facilities for man and women, Teen Challenge conducts drug prevention and education programs in school districts throughout New England and New Jersey. (Google image, Teen Challenge, New Hampshire)       Our goal is to reach at-risk youth before they get dangerously hooked. For those who enter the Teen challenge program, we represent a last chance at life and offer hope to those who have long since abandoned it.    Teen Challenge began in 1958, when Rev. David Wilkerson responded to the desperate needs of young gang members in New York City. Six years later Teen Challenge was established as part of this growing national Christian program.    Today, Teen Challenge is the largest and most successful non-profit residential recovery program of its kind in the world, with over 200 centers in the USA and an additional 1000+ programs worldwide.    Parents, grandparents, and families repeatedly express their gratitude for the dedication of Teen Challenge and the hope it brings to so many. To learn more about our program and facilities, check out our website at tcnewengland.org. (Deadline for this matching gifting- December 31st, 2019) ~ Todd's testimony:   "The devil inside the bottle convinced me that I had everything under control but I didn’t. My addiction had been going on so long that it became a part of me. On the outside I looked fine, functional and I performed well at work but on the inside I was a mess.     God blessed me with a beautiful family, a wife and four amazing children and an amazing photography job but none of it could stop my drinking. I would think about with all  this who would want to drink, but the reality is people, things,  situations or positions can never fill the hole in one’s heart . . . that only God can fill.     Because of the support of my family and friends I entered Teen Challenge and through Jesus Christ I have become a changed man. Teen Challenge has given me the time to come to know God and allow Him to change me from the inside out. I have been able to pull in the reins of the reckless life I was living and focus on the life God has called me to. God has cleaned the lens of my heart and given me a whole new perspective on this beautiful thing called life. At Teen Challenge New Hampshire ~ Aaron Cote's testimony: My name is Aaron I’m from a small town in upstate NY where there are more cows than people. I started smoking marijuana when I was 14 years old, after my grandma passed away. it was the only way I knew how to numb the pain. By the time I was 18 I was an opiate addict . . . My wife had told me about Teen Challenge, and as soon as she did, I thought "I'm not a teenager, I’m almost 30!" Luckily, Teen Challenge is a 15 month drug and alcohol rehab for adults who struggle with substance abuse issues . . . " ~  Changed Lives: Megan  (click here)  For Her Story of redemption from abuse to living a fruitful life!

MIRASIA'S STORY  (click here) March 2020 Teen Challenge N. H. Steve says: "I have spent 23 of my 33 years on earth in active addiction. I grew up in the Midwest in a poverty-stricken neighborhood. Both of my parents were alcoholics. Home was volatile. Life was a mess. I would do anything to escape my reality. Then I discovered drugs. I was smoking pot by the age of 10 . . . and experimenting with psychedelics before I was 13.    In my 20's, I did what I swore I would never do: I began drinking. An addiction to alcohol stole everything I held dear and brought me to my knees. I always thought I could quit my way, on my terms, but in the end, only Jesus Christ could deliver me from my addiction. Today, Teen Challenge Greater Boston is providing me with  the discipleship I need to stay alcohol and drug free.    I plan on graduating from Teen Challenge New England & New jersey in the near future, strong in the Lord and ready to carry on the good work that He has begun in me. 2 Corinthians 2:14 says, "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place." "I always thought I could quit my way, on my own terms, but the end, only Jesus Christ could deliver me from my addiction." -Steve