Chase
My name is Chase, and I am from Russellville, Alabama. Raised by a good family that provided for me and loved me. Started staying away from home more than at home just partying even during high school.
Once I graduated, I moved away and continued the lifestyle. I got arrested and moved back home with my family. Started working in construction with my father, and was making a good wage working, but I was still focused on the wrong things. This was putting stress on my life and my family because I was still on probation and trying to dodgedrug tests and my family. One weekend I was wrestling with a friend and had a horrible accident where the left side ofmy face was crushed and altered my life completely. During this time my mother and Father separated but were not divorced and were living at different properties.
I talked to my father said I wanted to live in Colorado and try to start a life there. My father agreed and 2 weeks later I was on a Greyhound to Denver, Colorado with 2 bags and $400. I stayed in Canon City, Colorado at a campground and worked at the campground when I first got there. After about 2 weeks of moving into the RV and starting a new job away from the campground, my father was calling me on my phone. I answered my phone, and my grandmother wason the line because my father had passed, and his phone was the only one that had my number. It had not hit me that he had passed until I walked into my living room and where he always was sitting, he was not there.
I was at the financial end and tried living out of my car to try to get back on our feet, but my girl wanted to go back home. So, we moved back home, and I lived with my grandparents and she lived with her parents. I had no one to turn to or talk to because I had been gone for so long. Turned back to my old lifestyle that I thought would bring me happiness. I started partying and using substances to try to bring me happiness. The only substance in my hometown was methamphetamine so that’s what I turned to. My grandparents recognized that I was using and I was forced to leave. I knew no one and had nowhere to go.
I started living at a trap house and started selling or trading. Finally got arrested and was sent to a halfway house in Huntsville, Alabama in September of 2022. I asked to be transferred to the Downtown Rescue Mission and it was agreed upon. I came here on Nov 18th of 2022 the same day my father passed. Once in the program, I was relieved by the atmosphere I was in. No one spoke negatively, or about doing the same thing when they got out, it was all about trying to improve their lives and drawing closer to Christ. I am very thankful for my life and how it has so far turned out to find a new rock in my life that is everlasting and that is Christ. Thankful to everyone at the Downtown Rescue Mission big or small for helping provide a place and environment for me to look at myself and realize I needed him. I am currently an employee of security at the mission, I am currently attending Ktech training program in mechatronics. I have a future now, I have hope now, and I have a rock now. I give all the glory to God.
