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PO Box 354Baxley, GA 31515Contact UsPO Box 354Baxley, GA 31515Phone: 912-366-7777Email: mike@Web: BEACON 03/202024/7 House, Inc. PO Box 354Baxley, GA 31515Letter from the FounderThe blessings just keep on coming!! God’s presence at this ministry is very evident. The holy spirit’s aroma is breath taking, witnessing these men and women chase after Jesus and relying on Him to see them through their problems is encouraging! What we see here can only come from God. We are also blessed with a community that supports us by being faithful partners and by our partners from other communities. We are so grateful for your prayers volunteering in so many aspects. We are looking forward to 2020 being our best year yet. We believe that our foundation is stronger than ever. Our older residents are stepping up by being living examples to the newer residents and showing love and support like never before. God is So good!! 24/7 House is so blessed with the staff, volunteers, and of course Ms. Carolyn which is our special receptionist. 24/7 House would not be here if God’s people weren’t obedient and faithful in love, prayer and support to this ministry, His ministry.Thank you all and God Bless.Pete WrightFROM A COUNSELOR IN TRAININGGod really showed up in my life and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime, to enter the 24/7 House and He has never left my side since. Being in the program myself, I have learned to love myself and have compassion for others like Christ does. I live my life today walking in God’s will and not my own. I am beyond grateful to be a part of an amazing program and help give back to the community. Because of the 24/7 House I am able to live a joyous, free, hopeful and a purpose driven life, with God. I have always wanted to help others and felt it to be a calling, but the disease of addiction got in the way. I entered the 24/7 house just like many broken and hopeless. I thought I had no purpose in life. I have become closer to God and while walking in His will for me I found my purpose, to help others like myself. Upon my completion God opened a door for me. I have committed myself to 24/7 House, this time as apart of staff. Just in the little time I have been working here I have witnessed many blessings God has bestowed upon the residents and 24/7 House in general. Watching the community learn how to view addicts differently and accept us all for the new person we are all becoming has been a dream come true to me and all because the residents have the courage to speak out and tell their story. I am very proud to be able to say that I am a recovering addict and now helping others, and I am blessed to be a part of such a loving family we have grown to be here together. I can feel and see God working in every aspect of our lives here at 24/7 House.-Jessica Hancock5Today I’m a 50-year-old man, and for the past 19 years I have been addicted to drugs. My addiction took me to dark places. I didn’t care about anything or anyone. Eventually, I ended up in jail for 8 months, a God thing, it saved my life. God had a plan for my life that I was unaware.He blessed me and made it possible for me to come to the 24/7 House. It’s a loving and caring place that is helping me learn about the powerlessness and unmanageability of this misunderstood disease.I’m grateful that we have a loving God of 2nd chances. I have been at the 24/7 House for 30 days. I was in denial about what my life had become, and now I’m “so ready” to see what God has planned for my life. I’m grateful to the staff and the men in the program for loving and caring about me and helping me stay focused on my recovery. My recovery relationship with God is real. I feel so good about the new person I’m becoming.JerryMessage from the Program DirectorWhen I came to the 24/7 House from Atlanta 4-years ago, I was only going to stay for 90 days of the 1-year minimum program.I arrived a broken spiritual bankrupt hopeless man. I felt like 90 days would be all I needed to get my strength and hope back and start rebuilding my relationships with the Lord. I would be well enough to go back to Atlanta and restart my life. What I didn’t realize was God had other plans already in place even before I arrived at 24/7 House. I decided, after a few months, that I needed this new life, and for the first time in my life decided that I would put 100% into God’s will and keep my will out of it. It hasn’t always been easy but the transformation that God has made in me is amazing. Some days I’m so full of joy I want to share it with others. However, I know for them to get IT they are going to be required to completely surrender everything to Him.On March 25th, 4-years later, I remain in Baxley and a part of this program, helping others.I am grateful today for God’s peace in knowing no matter what’s going on, in my life, it’s going to be okay.Jimmy KerrFROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS DESK 2020Hello Friends,As 2020 is underway, we become involved in our community. Our women have talent! They call themselves “Diamonds in the Rough.” We have visited several churches in Baxley and our girls sing praise and worship songs. Their love for how God is moving in their lives is evident in their music. It’s awesome to see God take the pain of the past and turn it into something glorious, for His purpose. 24/7 House was able to have a fund raiser for one of the local churches and raised nearly $2000.00 for them! Praise songs and testimonies, it was a wonderful event.24/7 House spent 3 days, in February, doing “Teen Maze” with the 8th and 10th graders at our local school. Our men residents are involved with their Sunday School Class and went to Jacksonville to see Lauren Daigle in concert. And in a couple of weeks will go to Augusta to see Mercy Me in concert. We are blessed!When I became a drug and alcohol counselor, one of my desires was to change the stigma of addicts in RECOVERY wherever possible. Addicts aren’t bad people. The world sees the symptom of the disease-bad behavior. They need help. Lives are being changed and in our small part of the world we are witness to it.If God is for us, who can be against us? Please continue to support us.God Bless you all.Michael Smith CAC1, NCACExecutive Director 41Problems Caused by Drug AbuseThe consequences of drug abuse can be severe, destructive, and sometimes irreparable. Drug abuse will affect your life on every possible level, including:Socially, financially, occupationally, and health. A few reasons for this are feeding a drug habit requires a lot of money and being under the influence of drugs makes it difficult to honor your work and family obligations.The unrelenting cycle of high drug costs and incapacitation can lead to stealing, lying, and cheating to support your addiction. Personal problems that drug abuse lead to may include, crime, contracting a disease, degeneration of physical and mental health, conflicted relationships with loved ones, isolation and death. Drug abuse impacts your judgement and reaction time because these substances slow down your cognitive and motor functioning through various biological actions. Slow reaction time and impaired judgment can lead to plethora of social and behavioral problems due to an inability to make rational decisions, including violence, risky sexual behaviors, child abuse and neglect. driving under the influence, theft and prostitution, spreading of infectious diseases. Once you are addicted your personality changes because you believe drug is an integral part of your survival. You make decisions in addiction that you would have never even entertained the thought prior to your addiction. If you have children, problems can include: forgetting to feed ,wash or dress your children, exposing children to harmful environments, not paying rent, electric, water, abusing neglecting your children’s physical, emotional, and medical needs, having children removed from your custody, increasing the chances they will use chemicals, and the inability to protect your children from accidents or other harm.Addiction is a dis-ease just as cancer is a disease. Therefore, treatment is required, and hope is available. Harvey PraterAdministrative assistant Message from a Current Resident I was raised in a loving, tight knit family who loved me dearly. I was a good kid but always felt like I didn’t quite fit in. Around the age of 24 I started using drugs and drinking. From that point on I have struggled with addiction. I couldn’t understand how I couldn’t love life and my kids so much just to put drugs and myself in front of them. It made me feel worthless, and I couldn’t understand how I had become that kind of person. I was angry with myself and I was angry with God for not helping me at the time. Now, I realize that everything in my life had to happen exactly the way it has and nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. What I was missing was someone that was there the whole time I just wouldn’t seek Him. He had to let me be completely broken for me to see that only through Him can I be set free. I am still blown away by all the twists and turns and experiences that had to happen just to get me to the 24/7 House. I am learning to surrender my Will to God. I know that I am lost without him. It hasn’t been easy, and I still have a long way to go but I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything in the world. I thank God for loving me so much that He would allow me to come to the 24/7 House to get closer to Him. For that I am grateful.Lindsay Addiction does not discriminate. It doesn’t care who you are, how much money you have or what you or your family does for a living. I know because my Daddy is a preacher and I am an addict. When I was 15, I went to my first party. I dropped out of school in the 9th grade and went straight to work to provide for my newborn that was on the way. I got into an abusive relationship and shortly after being with him I began using hard drugs and that started the complete chaos in my life. I have been arrested over 20 times. Went to prison for 2 ? years and almost lost my life while in prison. I knew God kept me alive for a reason but that didn’t stop me from going back out into my addiction. I got into trouble again, this time I plead with the judge to let me go to rehab, and he agreed. That’s how I ended up at the 24/7 House. I didn’t realize how broken I was until I got here. I am learning some of the things I have been through are not my fault like I thought after all these years and there are ways to handle and deal with these things other than numbing the feelings with drugs and alcohol. I’m learning to love myself again and how not to be so angry and bitter all the time. Best of all I have learned that God never left me, and He will never leave me. I’m getting closer to God by the day. God and 24/7 House has saved my life!Cherrie 2 3I’m 27 years old years and was born into addiction. Both parents were addicts and my stepdad was abusive. My parents gave me my first drink at 11 and my 1st pain pill at 14. After that I went to hard drugs. I hated myself, my life, and God. I lost my kids and ended up homeless. So hopeless and desperate to stop but I didn’t know how. Constantly in and out of jail the jailors took bets on how long until they would see me again. I was facing several felonies and prison when I applied to 24/7 House. I was an empty shell of a person when I got here. I could barely stand to look in the mirror. Being here has given me a new family like I have always wished for. They loved me here long before I could fathom doing it myself. I am growing closer to God. Getting a second chance to know my son and I am truly proud of the person I am becoming all because they gave me a chance.Kristyna I have been in addiction for 30 years, In and out of jail for the last 20 and to prison the last 10 years. My life has been in complete turmoil. When I reached out to the 24/7 house I was broken, hopeless and didn’t love myself or anyone else. I didn’t want to live anymore. Thankfully, 24/7 House accepted me without hesitation or money. I am starting to love myself again now and they have helped me see that I am not hopeless. Being here has helped me find God again and together we are all putting my broken pieces back together again.CherrieI was raised in a Christian home with two parents who loved me, my brother and sister very much. I grew up knowing right from wrong, but at age 15 I started to rebel and began drinking. By the time I turned 20 years old I was unable to function normally without drugs and alcohol. My addiction progressed even more over the next 19 years and at the age of 39 I was completely hopeless and so separated from God that I was too ashamed to even pray anymore. I started thinking of ways to end my life and dreaded each day that I would wake up. I thought me and my family would be better off if I were dead. One day I woke up and cried out to God in desperation and surrendered to Him. He did for me what I could not do for myself. By His grace and mercy, I ended up at the 24/7 House. When I got here, I had lost my home, car, license, custody of my son and relationships with family. 24/7 House has showed me so much grace and mercy and had faith in me when I didn’t have faith in myself. Through this program I have gained a relationship with God and restored relationships that I thought were unrepairable. I have learned how to love myself and others and how incredible it feels to walk in Gods will. Since I finished the program, I have had the privilege to be the women’s house manager and help other who also want a better way of life. I am truly grateful and blessed for everything 24/7 House and God has done in my life. Paige ................
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