Why I Believe in Teen Challenge

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Apr 21 2019 11:36 PM

ALABAMA:   

The following text message was sent to me ( Rickey Stokes ) by this young man in 2016, a Sunday, at 9:46 AM:  

Got off probation early Friday, In the middle of purchasing a home. Out of debt. Back in college at Troy. Getting married in March, Just finished my two years up in ministry school and applied for my ministry license. Going on three years of sobriety. Nothing left of my past except a great testimony of Christ in action. Just wanted to say thank you for what you did for me.  I couldn't see the bigger picture when you did what you did for me while it was going on. I am grateful for it now that I see it. Hopefully others will see your motive when things are better, Love you and have a great Sunday."

It is April 2019 and this young man is doing wonderful.

He was a young man with a 10 year habit of shooting up under his fingernails. His mother and grandmother wanted me to make his bond. I refused.

I told them that I was going to lock him down where he could not even get out of jail. Judge Anderson told the young man he was not going to die under his watch.

He went to Teen Challenge...and still in 2019 doing wonderful.

ALABAMA SENATOR CAM WARD

We profess to be the most Christian state in the country, but no Christian would allow their fellow man to be treated the way that they are said to be treated. That may not be the popular view, but it’s the truth.”                                           

 86% support expanded rehabilitation and re-entry programs for prisoners.

...challenges churches to “take responsibility” toward helping a prisoner transition back into society.

“We need to make Alabama churches aware of this initiative and have churches take a more active role in prison reform,”

Here is how much Rickey Stokes is committed to TEEN CHALLENGE.

A - Advantage Bonding will make your bond for free, except for the $ 35.00 fee charged by the court system for your being arrested. ( I call it an extortion fee ). With a condition of bond being "successful completion of Teen Challenge. ) 

I have never personally been to a TEEN CHALLENGE campus, but have seen their results. Houston County Sheriff Jail Chaplin Joe Holland has established a great relationship with TEEN CHALLENGE.

And together, with God's guidance, have helped several get into TEEN CHALLENGE and they have been successful.

Alabama senator says Christians ‘should speak out’ over prison conditions, sparking reaction

In September 2017, at the rear of a dormitory in the so-called “Hot Bay” at the medium-security Bibb Correctional Facility, two inmates stabbed another.

The wounded inmate, far from help, began screaming, hoping that the security staff would hear. No one came. He then crawled toward the front doors of the dormitory, while fellow inmates banged on the locked doors, making a racket to get guards’ attention.

Still, no one came.

When an officer finally got there, the inmate was lying on the floor, blood flowing from his chest. He eventually bled to death.

“One Hot Bay resident told us that he could still hear the prisoner’s screams in his sleep,” the summary of the incident reads.

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When you have a heart disease, if the issue is not treated the problem is not solved. Same thing in addictions.

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