CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – A faith-based alcohol and drug rehab center in Moncks Corner is expanding.
Altered Lives Ministry is a complimentary program with various centers for males and females. The males’s program is 10 weeks, the females’s program is 13 weeks.
The ministry is doubling its capability to serve males with a new facility that will be able to serve 20 males at a time. They are anticipated to break ground in May. It will have a living area for the males and a chapel on website.
The facility has actually served people in your area, throughout the country and beyond. They state they have a 58 percent success rate.
The females’s facility called, Hannah Home, lies on another residential or commercial property and can provide to 8 people at a time. They are moneyed through churches and other donors.
Board of Director Jackie Blackmon states he desires people to understand they’re hereto help He states a lot of regional people do not recognize they exist.
” The Majority Of people who struggle with drugs and alcohol, they have actually struck rock bottom when they come here however from day one they are taught that there are people here who enjoy them and care about them and desire the very best for them,” Blackmon stated. “We do not simply attempt to save lives here. We conserve souls.”
The males’s facility has actually been around for 15 years. The females’ facility will have its 1 year anniversary this month.
” To be totally free of charge is extraordinary. I went to a nonreligious program 15 years back for 3 weeks and it cost $18,000,” Blackmon stated. “I left there and I definitely wasn’t recovered. They informed me I was an addict and I ‘d constantly be an addict. We teach them here the love of Jesus Christ and ideally they accept Jesus Christ and recognize they never ever have to state they’re an addict once again.”
Some of the people who have actually worked with the ministry have actually gotten help through the program consisting of Blackmon.
They state it’s a full-circle minute to be able to help others recuperate.
” Some people come here from pressure from their households. If they do not desire it themselves, it will not work. They have actually got to desire it,” Blackmon stated. “We have a caring staff here.”
The growth job will cost about a million dollars. Donors have actually supplied about half the costs the ministry is presently fundraising.
The ministry’s 3rd Yearly Fundraising Banquet will be on April 11 at 6 p.m. at Spear Technical College.
If you ‘d like more information about the Altered Lives Ministry, banquet tickets or to contribute you can check out https://www.scclm.org/
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