I first met the devil when I lived in Ashland, Kentucky as he introduced himself to me in the form of oxycotin and it did not take long for me to destroy my life. I had a beautiful wife, three beautiful children, good job, a home and everything I wanted. Soon I found myself facing a divorce and I lost it all most of all my wife and kids. I thought how God could do this to me why would he take my family. I grew so angry at God and grew to believe that He hated me so I gave up and grew worse in my addiction quickly. I got to the point I was stealing, lying and whatever it took to support my habit causing me to lose everything and everyone including my desire to live at all. I was staying with whoever I could wherever I could including the streets.  I thought there is no point in getting clean nobody cares they would all be better off if I was dead. While talking to my kids on the phone I came to the realization that I was tired of my kids not having a father and I did not want them to grow up with the same feelings I had looking out the window or down the side line at a game for a father that would never be there. I was tired of not having any kind of life and not giving my kids a life. I decided to turn myself in on the charges that were on me. I was not sure what to do because they only kept me a few days my brother told me about Freedom Hall and ask me to just check it out I was not sure because I was just so angry with God. But it has been a place that has changed my life in five months. I have given my life to the Lord and I have came to find that God never hated me he has always loved me and been with me to keep me alive through all I have been threw chasing a pill I call the devil. God has saved me from an eternal hell, gave me another chance to be in my kid's life and saved me from four years in prison, the courage and wisdom to witness to others and I can now wake up and praise Him for another day. He has blessed me with all the people in this ministry that he has put in my life. Without Him I would be dead.

Brandon Caldwell

For most of my adult life I have always claimed to be agnostic. I always thought that maybe there was a God, but to have faith in something as abstract as God was for weak people who needed something to hold on to. I was way too intellectual and rational to believe I needed to religion to make it through life. With that being said living by my own will, I never felt whole inside and always used substances to feel better about myself. That led me down the path right into nasty pill addiction that I have been on and off for years. Even in the years I abstained from them I still felt incomplete and never felt totally free and secure in myself. I finally felt as low and depressed I was ready to hear what God had to offer. I realized that I had become beaten down and I had exhausted all of my options. Pills, alcohol, self-knowledge and will power could not and did not change anything for me. About a year ago God put a person in my life who was just like me and had amazingly overcame his addiction and had a joy in his life I could not fathomed. Through his testimony I got a seed planted in me about the truth, and I received Jesus Christ in my heart. But I still was not able to stay sober. I did not know how to have a personal relationship with Christ. I knew about Freedom Hall for years, people I knew came here and got clean and sober. I prayed and prayed and know that by totally surrendering my life to Jesus he led me to New Beginnings. I have gave up everything and trusted Him to do for me what I could not do myself. By coming to Freedom Hall God has showed me what it is like to be totally free and has broken the bonds of addiction. He showed me what it was like to be loved and how to love. New Beginnings has been has been the biggest blessing in my life, not only to hear the Word but to be applied to many lives and lifestyles. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here and for the Power of Jesus Christ to live a joyous, happy and full life and to walk through things with my head up. I pray daily to God thanking him and asking him to bless this ministry for the power to keep changing lives. It is truly remarkable what I see God do here on a daily basis.

Zack Hall

 I was born in 1978 in Portsmouth, Ohio, me, my mom and my sister moved to Cincinnati when I was just a new born. It was tough growing up at time it felt normal because it's all I knew we move a lot I've seen a lot of men in my Moms life. I have seen things, did things and had things happen to me I would like to forget. My life was empty, my life was broken and I was not living I was existing. I did not know God at all. The only thing I knew was fear, loneliness, sadness, hate, anger, confusion, rejections, sorrow and I did not want to feel those feelings so I numbed it with pills. I thought it was numbing but what it was actually doing was suppressing everything about my past. I was tired physically, tired of the hate, the lying, the way of living. God has truly grabbed a hold of me, he has led me here and he has been with me  through everything; though my molestation, my fears and my tears and I never realized that until I came here to Freedom Hall. This place has changed my life. I look back on my life and these little whispers that I heard trying to lead me down the right path the ones I never listened to I now know that it was my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I no longer have fear, loneliness, sadness, sorrow, hate, anger, confusion and rejection because I know he is with me and he protects me. I can stand up and with Him I feel safe.

Joe Zaph

Psalm 107:17-20 ¹⁷Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.  ¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.  ¹⁹Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. ²⁰He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. My name is LaShanda Pack I am a 41 year old wife and mother of two beautiful children. After my children were taken, I dove headfirst into my addiction for two years I had completely given up on life until July 11, 2011 which is the day me and my Husband went to Freedom Hall to be assessed to enter into the recovery program. They had room for my Husband that day and I entered the program shortly thereafter on August 18^th 2011. Since then I have been saved by the Grace of God and live accordingly to His will. I am learning how to live life on life's terms. Every day I make a conscience effort to thank God for all he has done for me, to put a smile on the faces around me and to take my recovery one day at a time. Because I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.