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Teen Challenge is a Christian-based organization, which started caring for troubled youth in New York City in 1958. The program has expanded into over 600 autonomous locations in over 80 counties worldwide, helping children, teens, men, women and families. Teen Challenge British Columbia endeavors to help people become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well, and spiritually alive.
Teen Challenge has a documented success of 70 - 86 percent, and is regarded as one of the most successful drug rehabilitation programs in the world. Many of the people who come with their drug problems and associated troubled lifestyles, often come from a background of being unwanted, left out, and forgotten. All come with broken lives and desperate hearts. The following is "Patrick's" recent account. He is still in the program and the account is short, however his own words snapshot the change God begins to make in a life. Canadianchristianity.com invites you to pray for Patrick and others as they courageously walk away from an old life into a new one...
http://www.bcteenchallenge.com
Patrick's snapshot...
I was born in Mission, B.C. in a poor middle class family. I had a great childhood; besides the fact of all the hurt I felt when my birth father abandoned me. I felt there was something wrong with me. God was always a part of my life. God had saved me from death a lot. He saved me when I fell off a cliff and preserved my life from many car accidents I was involved in.
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 My mother was on birth control when I was conceived and I had the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck twice. There has never been a doubt in my mind that God exists and how He has a great plan for my life on this earth. However, I was walking in disobedience and despair.
I didn't attend church regularly and always held on to the bitterness and anger towards my birth father. It wasn't until I lost everything; my family, my three kids, and my sanity. I was in a psychiatry ward when one day I got on my knees and handed God my life.
I knew I could not live my life on my own strength. As I presented myself to Him a living sacrifice, He washed my mind with His Spirit. At BC Teen Challenge, God is showing me how He sees me. Together we are building a deeper relationship with each other.
God has provided me a way out of addiction that was filled with darkness, into a place of freedom, allowing me to experience the gifts He has placed within me to bring Him the glory.
September 25/2007
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