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Emergency Services Hebron Center (Addiction Program) About the Program Hebron Hardwoods Location New! Hebron Alumni Site and Testimonies Mens Ministries Center for Women & Children Annabel's Thrift Shop	New! Hebron Alumni Site and Testimonies Hebron Center Alumni on Facebook Needs we are giving to as a group The Hebron Alumni Fellowship successfully raised money for new sound system equipment and instruments for the Morton Chapel. This was an incredible accomplishment and we are excited of how this will effect men for years to come. Check out the updated results for this project. If you are interested in giving along with our Alumni Group, please contact briancrispin@wmm.org for details. Annual Homecoming Events: This incredible event began in 2008 and sees dozens of graduates of the Hebron Program return from all over the world to Camp Hunt for a weekend of fellowship and prayer. This is a great way to get refreshed, spiritually and is a popular way to stay connected with the men the alumni were side-by side with in the program. - 2009 Hebron Homecoming - 2008 Hebron Homecoming Video click on picture to play video of our first, anual homecoming event Alumni Prayer Breakfasts These bi-monthly events are held downtown and can see up to 40 alumni praying together and hearing the Word of God from one of our popular guest speakers. What an amazing testimony it is to have this group spending the early parts of a Saturday morning praising God for the new life He has given by His grace! Click on the Picture to watch the video about our bi-monthly Alumni Prayer Breakfasts. Straight Line Newsletters for Alumni: Click here to Download the January, 2009 Straight Line Alumni Newsletter pdf Click here to Download the June 2009 Straight Line Alumni Newsletter pdf Click on the picture to download the new Winter 2010 Straightline Alumni Newsletter. Alumni Missionaries: Men that graduate the Hebron Program are eager to share the good news that Christ died to give us hope. The love of God that is experienced by having a life filled with desctruction turned into one filled with restoration and hope is something that needs to be experienced by the whole world. Check our these graduates that are now serving as missionaries around the world: The Cantrells and Bryan McDowell in Quepos, Cosa Rica. click on the picture to see Jared and Eileen Cantrell's blog. John McAfee in Flagstaff, Arizona. * click on the picture to download Jon's latest Newsletter. Alumni Testimonies Danny - Hebron Program & Servant Leadership Training Graduate I know it’s only by the Grace of God that I’m able to tell you all the wonderful things God has done in my life today. God has watched over me when I truly would not watch over myself. I was born into a very large family of 15. My dad left my mom when I was only six years old and I grew up very bitter at him. My mom is very sweet and I spend the next few years angry at the way my mom was treated. At 12 years old I would chop cotton in the summer time to help around the house. I would wash cloths and help cook the food so we could eat. I was the oldest boy and I wanted to be the man of the house. When my mom met a friend I would do things to run him away. When I was 14, I started dating girls, and by the time I was 19 I was married with four children. I had a good job and was active in the church. I became the assistant Sunday school Superintend, working with children. Salvation was wonderful although I did not understand the Christian life at times; I was at peace with my wife and kids. I did family things with my family, going to the lake, to the movies or just played with the kids in the back yard. I can acknowledge that God was very good to me and my family. My wife and kids meant more to me than anything I could ever want. I grew up saying that I would never walk out on my family the way my dad walked out on us, but out of all the years I judged my dad and I was twice as bad as he was. I left my family after I became a father in another relationship I was in. I was introduced to drugs when I was 26 years old and my life has not been the same since. I was in bondage to this addiction for 25 years of my life. I lost marriages and everything I have ever owned because of my selfish desires. I loved me more than I loved anyone, including God. My life was a mess. I became homeless with no job and my wife and I had been separated since 1998. That’s how I know that God carried me all these years. For some reason he would not let me die, although I wanted too many times. I tried many times to kick my addiction, but I would fall right back into it. My dad was in bad health and my last option was to run to the very person I judged. I caught a bus to Indianapolis and I did well for a while, but I fell back into this hopeless state I just came out of. I tried going to church, but my urge to use was greater then my desire to stop. Through my situation I was lead to Wheeler Mission Ministries where I stayed in the day room for two months. I was tired of running and I wanted to do something different with my life. I entered the Hebron Program, a one year drug program and it was an answer to prayer. After completing the program in December 07, I went to the work program instead of doing what God really wanted me to do and that was Servant Leadership Training, but to be honest with you, I still wanted to do what I wanted to do and that was to have control of my life. In the work program God blessed me with a good job and I was going to church each Sunday, but I still had so much of the world in my heart, and I still knew that was not God’s will for my life. God had so much more for me to do. My wife wanted me to come home because she thought I was a changed man. While I was not the same as I use to be, I knew I was not what she was hoping for. After ten months of compromising I used drugs three weekends in a row and I new that was not the road I wanted to go back down. I came back into the program and God blessed me to go into S.L.T., which is where I was suppose to be in the fist place. Today the Lord is in my heart and the sky is the limit even for a 53 year old man. God has afforded me the opportunity to further my Christian education by going to counseling classes through the National Association of Neuthetic Counselors (N.A.N.C.), plus Operation Timothy classes and I get to soak up the knowledge and wisdom from all my brothers here at Wheeler Mission Ministries. The greatest thing of all is my relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ; he is truly my heart, my life because he died for me on the cross. Today I personally know what that means to me. Thank You My Lord for loving me so much. Tom - Hebron Program & Servant Leadership Training Graduate My name is Thomas and my heart was full of hatred at the young age of 5 years old. The earliest feelings that I remember having were those of abandonment, which quickly turned to lack of trust, lack of love and it grew into pure hatred. I aimed all of this pain, loneliness, anger and hate towards those closest to me. As people attempted to love me, I responded with ungodly attitudes. This allowed me to put up what I called my “wall of defense.” I struggled greatly with wanting to be loved and being too scared to receive love. To be loved meant that I needed to trust others, be vulnerable to others, and even love them in return. I didn’t know how to do these things and I didn’t know where I could learn to do them. I didn’t want to be empty inside so I started looking for ways to fill my void. I started looking at porn, smoking cigarettes, smoking pot, and drinking beer. My participation in these behaviors increased each year until my mom gave me an ultimatum; she said that I was either going to stop this behavior or she was going to ship me off to a Job Corps Trade School in Michigan. I continued my ways, so off to Michigan I went. I continued to drink and then I started to steal and falsify documents (i.e. identification cards) and yet I still couldn’t find any satisfaction. Although I did graduate, my disrespectful attitude towards authority landed me in enough hot water that the Superintendent told me that I was no longer welcome there anymore. My next move was to join the Navy and deep down inside I was hoping that they would help me grow into a responsible man. Because I chose to continue in sin rather than surrender myself, I was eventually put out of the Navy. Instead of looking at the role I played in my life, I blamed everyone else and allowed my anger to grow. I still wanted to change, so I got married. I refused to give up my desire to sin and eventually went back to drug and alcohol use, my growing addiction to porn, and adultery. I chose sin over marriage and this soon ended in divorce. My life was spiraling out of control and I could not stop it. Eventually I was so wrapped in my sin that I participated in an illegal act that had me facing 12 years in prison for forgery. I signed my name to 3 checks that I knew where stolen. Even as the courts gave me an initial slap on the wrist during the sentencing, I still thumbed my nose towards their authority. They didn’t think too highly of my lack of respect and let me go to prison for a short time in hopes that my attitude would improve. I met the requirements and towards the end of my work release stint, I met my future wife. I now had the desire to change my lifestyle for the sake of my marriage. I still enjoyed sin and this desire soon became bigger than my desire to change. I became a slave to sin again and I started getting in frequent trouble with the law, which kept my marriage on the verge of separation/divorce. I found myself facing more jail time when I was arrested for having a controlled substance on June 18^th 2007. As I was kneeling on my knees on the side of the road on U.S.31 in Noblesville, Indiana, I was waiting to be handcuffed and this is when I came to my senses. It was at that moment that I felt Gods love and mercy wash over me and I surrendered to Him. I wasn’t sure what God was going to do with me, how long it was going to take, or what I was going have to lose in the process, but one thing I was certain of was the fact that my old life was over. God let me know that it was time for me to follow Him, and I was ready to accept Him. God immediately started working on my heart. My cold, angry, bitter, black heart was now in Gods hands. Over the next two years God took me from jail to total freedom. He placed me at the Lighthouse Mission and then at the Hebron Center. He started teaching me about how much He loves me and this in turn has allowed me to want to love others. I am not exactly where God wants me to be, but by His grace I am headed in the right direction. I’ve been blessed to have spent one year in the Regeneration Program at the Hebron Center and another year in Ministry Training, by way of Servant Leadership Training. God continues to show me His love and I’m happy to share it with others. I am now in relationship with many of His children and now I don’t feel empty inside. (Tom Has been clean from the lifestyle of Drugs and Alcohol for over a year and a half!)	Stay Informed! view archive