Freedom Hall Recovery Center
February 2012
Give today!

With spring just around the corner I cannot help but to think of the things that have had to die in our lives in order that something else can be born. Spring is a time of transformation and it seems like it is always spring time here at Freedom Hall. As I look around at some of our residents that have been here a while and I am beginning to see a genuine transformation in their lives. So often we want thing to transform instantly but we know the only true instant thing is salvation and as Romans 12:2 tells us everything else must be transformed by the renewal of our mind and this is when we see new things, new precepts and new ideas born in our life.

I want to thank each of our friends for sacrificing and giving generously to this ministry. We have some great things on the horizon that is going to allow us to do even greater things in the years to come (details should come in the next newsletter). Please dig deep this month in your giving we have a lot of overhead needs to be met and we cannot do it without your financial support. With your help we are winning some battles in this fight against addiction and destruction of lives.

Please be much in prayer as we are expecting the birth of Angie and I's first grandchild this month as Kayla and John's baby Eli Nolan is arriving this month.

Donate at:newbeginningsoutreach.net or by mail at p.o. box 472 Piketon, Ohio 45661
Transformation!

Hi, my name is Jason Lucas and I am a recovering addict.  My clean date is June 15, 2008. Four years ago, this June, I entered Freedom Hall.  I was broken, alone and all out of ideas, but I did know that the disease of addiction was going to kill me if something didn't change-Happily, something did change, with the help of Angie, Barry, the other recovering addicts and alcoholics in the house and all of the wonderful people affiliated with New Beginnings Ministries, I finally learned how to live responsibly-not guilty.  New Beginnings long-term residential treatment facility taught me how to accept responsibility for my actions, my feelings and my recovery.  I'm definitely still learning, but today through the power of God through New Beginnings Ministries, I celebrate 3 years, 8months, and 16 days clean and sober.  The unconditional love that Angie and Barry showed me when I showed up on the porch at Freedom Hall had more to do with that than most people will ever know.  I am grateful for that every day and I am doing my best to make the most of my personal New Beginning.

My name is Andrew Noel and I am a recent graduate of Freedom Hall.  When I came into the house I was a broken man who had no desire to live life.  I thought that death would be a better option.  I lost the trust and relationships with my family.  I turned my back on my daughter and didn't know Jesus Christ.   I had become a person that I never thought I would be during my addiction, a lying, stealing, cheating manipulator.  I didn't care who I hurt even the ones that were the closest to me.  Since I went through the program at Freedom Hall I feel like I have a new lease on life.  I am a new man.  I have gotten my family back, started getting communication back with my daughter and most importantly I have a relationship with Jesus Christ.  Freedom Hall has given me my life back.  I want to live and I want to help others who are going through the hard times of addiction.  I feel like I owe everything to this ministry.  I would like to thank everyone involved and anyone that supports the men and women at Freedom Hall.

My name is Dana A. Langford (Drew) and I am from Portsmouth, Ohio.  I am a graduate of Notre Dame High School, class of 1985.  I have two older brothers, Warren and Arthur III, my mom Jeanette and my dad, Arthur Jr. who passed away in 2000. I had a pretty normal childhood.  I started experimenting with drugs and alcohol in high school, which was my bridge to cocaine in later years.  It was fun at first, but then it became a problem and then a necessity.  Addiction destroyed all aspects of my life from losing the trust of family, losing good jobs through the years, putting a halt to finishing a degree in natural science and playing a major part in my divorce.  Active addiction brought me to the point of despair, emptiness and feelings of exile from society.  Through the power of Jesus Chris and New Beginnings Outreach Ministries He has integrated me back into and functioning correctly in society.  Reconciled differences in regards to family and has restored stability and purpose in my life.  I have been blessed to be working and able to serve for the up building of the Kingdom.  I give Him praise daily for changing the quality of my life.