Michael Ray is a godly man who leads the “12-Step Bible-Based Support Group” every Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at “The Current,” 414 South 4th Street in Van Buren. If you or a loved one you know is struggling with a drug or alcohol addiction and are looking for answers, he offers his testimony as encouragement to you that nothing is impossible with God.
“I started out using drugs and alcohol as a young teenager, not knowing that someday it would become a problem. It seemed like a lot of fun.
Drugs and alcohol were accepted in my family so I was never told not to use it, just to be careful. I spent all my teenage years and most of my adult life using alcohol and all types of drugs, mostly pot and meth. I worked, held a job, raised a family, and even went to church. It was in my early 40s when meth really became a problem and I couldn’t function without it. My life then became unmanageable. I got to where I couldn’t hold a job and my wife and I were having a lot of problems. It got to the point to where she finally had enough and she told me I needed to leave, so the addict in me said, ‘Let’s go, we can go get as high as we want to now.’ So, for about two years I did just that, not knowing how much I was hurting my family. I lost everything I had. I spent two years living in my car and just wherever.
I tried stopping many times but it had such a hold on me I couldn’t. I lost a lot of weight and got very sick and I really needed help, so I called on my wife, Kelly. She let me move back home just until I could get straight and healthy under the condition that I would go to ‘some meeting.’ I had tried different types of meetings and they didn’t work, but this one was different. It was the 12-Step Recovery meeting at Evangel Temple, chaired by DeWayne Hicks, director of Recovery Ministry. It works if you really want it to.
I have been clean and sober for six years now. My wife and I are still working on our relationship, and I have started my own business with God’s help. All things are possible with God, and the 12-Step Recovery Program is God-centered.”
The 12-Step Recovery Program is a group setting with others just like you who are able to discuss and share openly. All names and information are kept completely confidential. If interested, you may drop by for a Tuesday night meeting or contact Michael at (479) 739-7411 for more information.
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Michael Ray is a godly man who leads the “12-Step Bible-Based Support Group” every Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at “The Current,” 414 South 4th Street in Van Buren. If you or a loved one you know is struggling with a drug or alcohol addiction and are looking for answers, he offers his testimony as encouragement to you that nothing is impossible with God.
I tried stopping many times but it had such a hold on me I couldn’t. I lost a lot of weight and got very sick and I really needed help, so I called on my wife, Kelly. She let me move back home just until I could get straight and healthy under the condition that I would go to ‘some meeting.’ I had tried different types of meetings and they didn’t work, but this one was different. It was the 12-Step Recovery meeting at Evangel Temple, chaired by DeWayne Hicks, director of Recovery Ministry. It works if you really want it to.