Connect – Spring 2026 | Volume 25, Number 2
Terence struggled with addiction for 30 years. He had already grown tired of the drugs when a health scare and hospital stay confirmed that his addiction was killing him....
READ MORETerence struggled with addiction for 30 years. He had already grown tired of the drugs when a health scare and hospital stay confirmed that his addiction was killing him....
READ MOREHerb calls his ten-year addiction to fentanyl “the soul snatcher,” because it “snatches the soul out of your body. It’s evil. It ruins every aspect of your life.” Broke...
READ MOREStacy started drinking when she was just 17. Her addiction led to a life of dysfunction and abuse, the loss of her job and a place to live, and...
READ MOREFrom the time he was 14 and his older brothers introduced him to drugs, to just a little over a year ago when he tried to commit suicide, Brian...
READ MOREWhen Ricker tried to end his own life, he died three times on the hospital table before they managed to bring him back to life. Then a wise woman...
READ MORENichole had her first encounter with God when she was very young. It took years of being in a bad relationship, an addiction to drugs, homelessness, incarceration and finally...
READ MOREReggie spent 15 years growing up around gangs. “I was raised up in gangs,” he remembers. “Drugs and all that stuff. All kinds of trouble. That’s all I knew.”...
READ MOREIn Luke 15, Jesus tells his disciples the parable of the lost sheep and ends by saying, “‘Rejoice with sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way, there...
READ MOREFor Mike, drugs and alcohol were a way of running from a traumatic event he experienced when he was in his teens. He later got clean but relapsed after...
READ MOREThe first time Jesse came to Shelter KC, all he wanted was “to get the program done and make it look good. To say ‘Hey, I did it.’ I...
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