Freedom Dream Center

Drew Downey
I have been here at the Freedom Dream Center, for 2 ½ months. My life hasn’t always been easy. I was born and raised in Dodge City, KS. I lived with my mother until I was sixteen when she passed away of a stroke. It was a pretty rough year also having my aunt pass away of an overdose, and my grandfather passing away also. I began to really start going downhill, I didn’t know how to deal with all of that at one time so I began to just numb the pain with alcohol and drugs. Now that God has brought me here I am not going to say that it has been easy, but what I can say is that I got hope back and a new family. I also know that Jesus is my Savior, and that in the future I am going to be able to help others

Josh Johnson
My name is Josh Johnson, I have been in the Dream Center for 10 months and I am about complete the 1 year discipleship program. I came into the Dream Center in a messed up state, I was an alcoholic and a drug user. I was not raised in that sort of lifestyle, but by surrounding myself with people that did that type of thing I fell into the Devil’s trap. I was sixteen when I first found out what meth was, I didn’t do it much at that time, but I was doing it. Throughout living the party lifestyle meth became the drug that would cause me to fall. I went to rehab when I was 20 and I was there for 3 days, just enough time to sober up. I then went to a long term program that lasted a year and a half, I lasted 9 months in that program and then left because I told myself that I wasn’t going to spend my twenty first birthday in a rehab. I left with one thing on my mind and that was to go get drunk. After leaving that program I stayed clean for maybe 2 weeks. I began drinking and was hanging out at the bars. Before I knew it I was back in the same place I had been 10 months before that. I was back drinking heavy and doing all the drugs that came my way. Meth became my drug of choice and I was doing meth so I could function, to stay awake so I could work in the day and still maintain my party life at night. This horrible cycle continued for 5 long years. It was January 13, 2011 and I was sitting on a friends couch, I had been messed up on pills and booze for at least 5 days, as I sat there I told myself that there must be more to life than this. I went home and I called my dad and told him what was going on. He was supportive and he told me that we would find a place. We called everywhere and there was at least a 3 week wait to get in. Then God moved in the situation. My father is a pastor and one of his minister friends had dropped off a man here at the Dream Center, on his way back home he decided to stop by my dad’s church, my dad was leaving shortly after receiving my phone call and they met in the parking lot. My dad explained my situation to his friend and told him that he was leaving to get me some help. This was one of those divine appointments that only God could have set up. My dad’s friend began to tell him about the Dream Center and gave him the phone number. When my dad got home I called the Dream Center and spoke with Pastor Jered, he told me that the Dream Center was a one year bible based program. I knew what I needed to do. I packed my bags and I checked into the dream center that same day. I have been here for 10 months now and without the grace, mercy, and love of God I would not still be here. In Jeremiah 29:11 God says: For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Because of God and the Dream Center, I now have hope, and a future. I want you to know that God does not make junk, and that he is waiting for you to call upon him!

Bryan
I grew up in the small town of Galena, KS. My parents were divorced when I was 3 years old and my dad was never around much. My mom worked a lot so I could live in a good home and was also gone a lot. I pretty much did whatever I wanted. I was about 13 when I smoked pot for the first time, I was skipping school and the school called my mom wondering where I was and she came home and busted me smoking pot, but that didn’t stop me, I just became more careful. Years later, when I was 18 I used meth through a needle for the first time and was immediately addicted. That addiction lasted around 12 years when at age 30 I traded addictions and got hooked on opiates, this is the hardest thing I have ever had to overcome. Thanks to the Lord though, I have been delivered from opiates for more than three months now! I am a free man!