Curt got started down the wrong path early in life. His mother was an alcoholic and drug addict who shared her addictions with her son. “In high school, I was smoking pot with my Mom and drinking with her every night,” Curt remembers. “Then, I tore my knee and...

Vonzette grew up in Texas and was in a 15-year abusive relationship with a man who had introduced her to drugs. “I was going downhill in Texas. I was drinking, I was doing crack cocaine and I had started playing around with meth, and that’s something I never would...

Gerry grew up in Nappanee, was happily married, and always had steady employment. But three strokes not only left him partially paralyzed and suffering from vascular dementia but also without a home and divorced. The first stroke was the worst, leaving Gerry with...

When he was laid off because of Covid cutbacks, Terry not only lost his job, but the apartment he was living in. “I was living in South Bend, and I went to work one day, and they took me in the office and said, ‘You’re not going to like what we got to offer you, but...

Stacey’s father was an addict who introduced his daughter to meth when she was just 15. Stacey paid for that mistake for the next 10 years! “My mom begged me to get clean,” Stacey says. “But she died while I was in jail.” Wanting to prove to her Mom that she could get...

Candace will be the first one to admit that the choices she made in her life were not always the best ones. But she will also be the first to tell you how she came to know God and how her life changed completely at Faith Mission. Abused as a child, Candace grew up...

Karen has faced many struggles in her life – the deaths of her mother and her husband, some severe health issues and downsizing that resulted in the loss of her last job. Before coming to the Mission for shelter, she relied on the community meals here – and help from...

To ease the pain of losing his only son to suicide eight years ago, Robert began drinking, and was literally drinking himself to death. It took a good friend, and memory from his childhood, to bring him to the Mission for help.Robert’s mother worked at the Marion VA...

Like so many men and women who come to Faith Mission hoping to begin new lives, Ritchie had a pretty normal childhood. “I started drinking at 16. We’d go cruising in our cars and get beer.” His consumption increased after he married the first time, when he was “just...