This morning as my wife and I were having our coffee and getting ready for work, I had this overwhelming feeling of joy, and for most people this would be something of a regular occurrence but for me not so. For years, before I went to Turning Point for addiction treatment, I suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, so much so that I landed up in jail on numerous occasions and also did a few prison stints. There was also a time in my life that I believed I would be better off dead but the God I now serve had other plans for my life. You see, most of my friends had careers by attending college or joining and retiring from the military and some even had lifelong on the job training by working the same job since graduating from high school, but my training was a different type of training experience, addiction, and by God’s grace my experience has given me the skills to help other men who suffer from the same problems as I once did. I thank God everyday for believing I was worth saving and I am thankful for seeing the miracles take place within the lives of the men I am able to work with, by becoming fathers again, marriages being restored, seeing men who wanted nothing to do with God actually become faithful followers of Christ. When I am back in my hometown of Barnwell SC people do not talk to me about the sins of my past, they encourage me for who and what I am today. I am so blessed to have a wife who loved me when I couldn’t love myself and family members who never gave up on me. People ask me if I am ashamed to share my story with the world and I tell them, why would I be, there is God’s glory in my story!

Anthony Peoples
September 2017

After being welcomed into the Turning Point Community for addiction treatment, I was given a bed, food, and a job assignment. But out of all that was given to me, the most important thing was the opportunity to reclaim my life.

John Stephens, Jr.

I have a permanent job now, which I have had for a while. I have both a savings and a checking account; I have been reunited with my family; I have self respect again and enjoy helping others who were like me when I got here. With a grateful heart, I thank God and Turning Point.

Robert Smith

During my year and a half as a resident for addiction treatment, I have been able to maintain a permanent job, I have met and maintain my financial and legal obligations, I have been able to restore and repair relationships, I have a driver’s license and a vehicle and I have a peace of mind and an unbelievably happy life words can barely describe.

Gary J.