Adam grew up in a blue-collar family. “We weren’t wealthy by any means,” he says. “I grew up in the trailer park, graduated high school and joined the Army.”

Adam did a deployment in Bosnia, but his career ended because of an injury received stateside.

“”I had a lot of issues after I got out and I fell in with some people who were doing meth.”

When everyone around him was going to jail, Adam decided to clean up his act. For a time, he was a transport driver traveling around the country delivering cars and commercial vehicles.

“I ended up having to quit because my oldest son’s mom abandoned him and he went to live with my parents, so I had to stay local to help take care of him.”

When the police found someone else’s drugs in Adam’s car during a routine stop, he was given probation, but he violated it by driving out of state, which landed him in jail.

“After getting released, I basically had nowhere to go.”

“In a lot of ways it was God’s calling that brought me here,” Adam says today. “Because without this place, I’d be completely lost. I was raised in a Christian household, but I really didn’t know much about God. I never had read the Bible before coming to the Mission.”

“Now, I’m in the Training Faithful Men Program, and I’m playing catch up. The staff is doing a phenomenal job teaching me and the other men about God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and everything that is involved with being a good Christian man. That right there is huge to me. There were a lot of things that I just didn’t know, and it all makes a lot more sense now.”

And to partners like you who’ve made a difference in Adam’s life through your prayers and support, he says, “Without this place, I can’t even imagine where I’d be or what would have become of me. Thank you. It’s just two words, but I lack the vocabulary to express the gratitude that I have for the Mission and the volunteers and the donors and everyone who has stepped up to make this place happen.”