My name is Doug Woodward and I am from North Little Rock, Ark. I had a thirty year addiction of cigarettes, crack cocaine, meth, and pot. I found deliverance at Windsong Ranch Rehabilitation program through Jesus Christ. I thank God for 75 days(since Dec. of 2006) substance free, and the peace and comfort that God has given me.

I am 32 years old. I began using drugs when I was 12 years old. Because of drugs, I lost my husband and three beautiful children, my home, my car, my respect and my dignity. I've been in and out of rehabs and mental institutions. I was arrested on September 23, 2004 for crack cocaine and prostitution in a sting operation set up by vice police in Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually went to jail on October 1, 2004. That was the last time I've had a hit of crack cocaine and worked as a call girl. I was in Pulaski County jail praying for a Christian Rehab. My brother told me about Windsong Ranch Rehabilitation Center and its women's division called Wings of Eagles. While attending my first ACTS class in Pulaski County jail, the instructor, Sharon Blakely also told me about the program. I have been cigarette and drug free since entering the program November 23, 2004.

Hi! My name is Hannah Marie Moss. I am 19 years old from Monroe, LA. I was bound by Meth and prescription pills for seven years. At the age of 10, my father first went to prison. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart. So it seemed like my Mom and I were all alone. She is addicted to pain pills, so at the age of 11, I took my first Xanax and then it went from there. At the age of 13, my Dad came home and that is when I first found out how to break stuff down and shoot it up. Then, one thing lead to another and I tried cocaine. I was raped at the age of 15 by my cousin's boyfriend. After that is when I started trying Meth. Then, I was hooked. I have stolen from the ones I love. I have betrayed them. I have lost so many friends and family members because of drugs. A family member told my Dad about Wings of Eagles/Windsong Ranch. I did not want to come because I did not want to leave my family. But since I have been here, I have been delivered from my drug addiction. My walk with God is closer. I prayed back through and was baptized in Jesus name. Last Friday night, I graduated from High School and received my diploma!!

Lisa B here.Everyday I want to thank God for who He is and what He has done for me. I spent twenty years chasing a nightmare. I started using drugs like most "kids".smoking cigarettes, then pot, dropping acid, snorting lines of cocaine then doing and selling crystal meth for almost ten years. The lifestyle that goes along with it can only be understood by someone who has been there. I have been delivered from drugs and alcohol for two years except for a brief relapse and I thank you Jesus for saving me. Being a part of the program here at Wings of Eagles has been an important part of my life, my recovery and my deliverance. Do not take my word for it. Come and see for yourself!

For the past seven years, I have been bound by drugs and alcohol. I joined a Crip gang when I was 16 years old. The past two years, I was addicted to crack and meth. It got so bad that I turned into a prostitute. I spent half my life locked up. I was a Satanist before I came here.never set foot in a church. Then, I came here and got the Holy Ghost. I have not been the same since.

My name is Krista Leigh Carver. I am 18 years old. I was addicted to Meth for five years. My drug addiction started when I was 13 years old. I turned to drugs to take the pain away and went to my first Rehab in Nashville, TN - Cumberland Heights - and I stayed clean and sober for awhile...until I had to have something to take the pain out of my life again. Then, I turned to Meth. When I turned 18 in December, 2006, I got really bad off. I started beating up on my Mom, stealing from my family and started smoking Meth everyday. Then my parents took all they could take with my drug addiction and kicked me out. I was homeless for four months. I lost all self respect and did not care what anybody thought. I hated myself, so I started cutting myself to help take my pain away. I got put into jail for stealing from my family and by the grace of God I got to come to Wings of Eagles to straighten up my life! I have found the Lord, been clean and sober for three months and have NO desire to use drugs again. I want to help others the way I have been helped. I want to win souls. I thank God for making me the person I am today! I love the Lord and want to take back what the devil stole from me!

My wife and I are from McAlister, OK. I am 45 years old and my wife is 47 years old. We have been married 14 years. I have had an alcohol problem for 11 years. Gina & I have had a cocaine addiction for the past three years. The alcohol and drugs have put a strain on our marriage and family life. We both entered Windsong Ranch and Wings of Eagles on April 13, 2007, and have been delivered of our addictions though Jesus Christ by having a personal relationship with Him. We now have the desire to serve Jesus by ministering to other addicts and helping them to get out of the pit of hell.

My name is Don Harris. I have been using and selling dope for 25 years. I received a twelve year sentence the first time and a five year sentence the second time. I am in trouble with the law again. I do not know what will happen this time, but have faith that the Lord is going to take care of me. I have tried nine different rehabs - both in-state and out-of-state. They teach the twelve step program and talk about your "higher power" (whatever that means). Windsong Ranch does not teach all that. Here, it is all about Jesus!! And it is working! Thank Jesus that this works because I am too old to start over.

My name is Ricky Cornett. I am 21 years old and grew up in Searcy, AR. I got into the heavy metal scene at the age of 11 - wearing all black, listening to satanic music and smoking pot. When I started high school at 14, I using harder drugs and piercing everything. I went to my first rehab and they talked a lot about a "higher power". So, when I got out at 17, I started searching. One of my friends introduced me to Satanism. I fell out of it a year later, but my drug use began to climax and I went in and out of rehab. A month before my 21st birthday, my sister's lawyer sent her to the Wings of Eagles rehab to help her so she could get custody of her daughter. I came to visit one Sunday and saw a change in her that I thought I would never see. A week later, I signed myself into Windsong Ranch. On my fourth day, I received the gift of the Holy Ghost and was baptized in Jesus name!

My name is Juanita A. Cornett. I am 22 years old and was raised in Searcy, AR. I tried meth for the first time when I was 11. I have been bound by almost everything the devil has to offer. After quitting all drugs before I became pregnant and after three years of sobriety, through my ex husband's alcoholism, and verbal, mental and physical abuse, I turned to a needle for the first time and lost everything I ever had. I lost my daughter, my self respect and my mind! I was bound by the needle for two years and most of the time it was not enough to numb the pain I felt from all the guilt and shame I had from leaving my daughter and letting her down. I have scars all over my body. I have been a cutter - I don't mean I cut myself a few times but I cut myself on a daily basis. I have tried so many times to commit suicide because I thought my baby would be better off without me. I thought death was the only answer to forgiveness. When I knelt down at the altar for the first time and truly poured my heart out to the Lord, it was then that I knew He had already forgiven me. It was when family came to see me get baptized in Jesus name that my little brother, Ricky, saw what he had never seen in me before and he wanted the same. Then he came to Windsong Ranch. Praise God Almighty, I'M FREE AT LAST!!!

My name is Jason Conley. I am 27 years old. I grew up in a Baptist church and started losing my faith in God when I turned 15. I started drinking then and smoking pot by the age of 16. By the time I turned 18, I was well into pills. When I was 20, I was taking LSD and ecstasy. By the time I turned 24, I was well into ice and meth. I lost my connection with those drugs after a year but within a month, I started using cocaine. Within a year, I started losing everything - my family, friends, and job. I started stealing, lying and cheating.anything I could to support my habit. I did not realize what I had been doing until I was sitting in my jail cell. I started praying again and reading my Bible. I was freer in jail than I had been for years. I prayed for God to have mercy on me and not put me back on the streets I came from. My prayers were answered when Windsong Ranch Rehabilitation Center picked me up from jail. I have now got God back in my heart. I am helping others so they do not have to go down the same road I did.

My name is Randell Lloyd. I spent most of my life in juvenile jail. I got out on my 18th birthday and started smoking weed a couple of weeks after that. My girlfriend and I started using cocaine. I had a lot of drug treatment before I ever used drugs and knew intravenous use hit you faster, so that is what I did. My girlfriend and I had a little girl. She had three more children - boys - as well. I learned to cook meth just to keep her around. I got out there bad and lost track of my girlfriend and little girl. I got a married woman pregnant and had a little boy. I had so much dope in my life, it was madness all the time. For six years, I did nothing but cook and shoot dope. I ran in to my little girl and got back with her Mom. I said I would never use again. I kept my word. But she left me and went to Florida. She left me for drugs. The series of tornadoes that went through Florida took my little girl, the three boys and my girlfriend away. I started shooting drugs again. I lasted eight days. My Parole Officer sent me to Windsong Ranch to save my life. She said jail or God. I said, "put me down for God".. I got so much more! I never knew how to live nor wanted to live. I have done so much wrong. Windsong has shown me that I can still live and do right. I am so thankful for this place. I would be dead if not for this place. Now, I have been baptized in Jesus name and am seeking the Holy Ghost. I want to show people that there is life after drugs and that all things are possible in Jesus' name!

I would like to express my thanks to Bro. & Sis Parker for going to such lengths and trouble to be able to get on the Arkansas Department of Corrections approval list of halfway houses and rehabs in order for me to parole here. Incarceration was a major problem for me. I started smoking pot at 16, drinking at 17, and was in my first rehab in November of 1987 when I was 17 years old. In 1989, at 19 years old, I busted my pelvis in three places, and my family thought that this would cause me to quit drinking, but it didn't. By the time I was twenty, I had began to steal cars and got busted four times. During this time I was in a rehab called Decision Point. In 1991, I was sentenced to eight years of which I served four. After getting out, I spent ¾ of the seven years out in county and city jails for battery charges, and accumulated Public Intox and failure to appear's. My addictions were alcohol, pot, methamphetamine, and Robitussin DM cough syrup. The cough syrup was the most addictive drug. In August 2002, I got my second ADC sentence for robbery I committed while on Vodka and Robitussin, which I had been on for five days before I got drunk. My family had given up on me ever changing. After six months in Cummins, I began to seek help in various programs offered there. While in Cummins, a friend showed me an acceptance letter he had received from Windsong Ranch Rehab. I applied to the program and was accepted but soon learned that the program was not on the state list of approved halfway houses. For six months, I waited for the state to give their final approval to this program so that I could parole out to it. On Friday, May 20th, that day finally came! I have learned a lot about God and how to praise and worship Him while here. I have learned how to really read my bible and how to communicate with my Creator. I am very thankful for my parents sponsoring me while I've been in this program. I have learned that my way doesn't always work and has gotten me into a lot of trouble. I am going to try things God's way from now on!

Hello my name is Jeri Hale. I'm 31 years old. I'm from Beebe, Arkansas. My drug of choice was pot and meth. Now it is Jesus Christ. I have been in and out of very abusive relationships because of drugs. I paroled out of prison to the Wings of Eagles rehab in April of 2006. I can honestly say that Jesus Christ is the answer. He is helping me get my life back together, my GED and now he is helping me restore my family. I thank God everyday for second chances.

My name is Nicole. I am 27 years old and a mother of two beautiful girls ages 7years and 7 months. I started using drugs when I was 15 years old. The first drug that I used was cocaine. When I was 22 years old I began to use marijuana and meth. These became my "choice" of drugs. I started using meth when I started hooking up my friends with it. Very quickly the "hooking up" became "selling" or "distribution," which is how my charges read. I quit my job as a waitress/bartender at a local bar, because I made more money selling drugs and this became my source of income. However this "job" ended up costing me everything that I own. On April 25, 2006 my probation officer arrested me because I failed my drug test. I came to the Wings of Eagles rehabilitation program on May 10, 2006. I was baptized in Jesus name on Mothers Day 2006. My mother and my aunt bring my girls to visit and to worship God. Before I came here to this program I thought that I could just quit using drugs. But now I know without God I would have gotten worse. Without God I know that I would be in prison. Thanks to God I have been clean 49 days. Thanks to God I can go home soon & raise my children in Calvary Pentecostal Church and they will continue to have God in their lives. I give so much thanks to God for Brother Parker and Sister Parker and all of the people at Calvary. Thank you Jesus.

My name is Neva Williams and I am 31 years old. I have never been on drugs but I had a worse addiction than that. I was addicted to this world and all that I thought it had to offer. Was I ever sadly mistaken? I went to prison for three reasons. First I would not pay my fines and restitution on my first forgery charge. Second, I thought that I could go and forge more checks and get away with it. I found out quick that I couldn't. That landed me another forgery charge and my probation to be revoked. I went to court and was sentenced 2 years in D.C.C. in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I only had to serve eleven months there. Lastly I was very rebellious against authority and God. My pastor told me that I was going to prison if I didn't change my ways, but I didn't believe him. Upon going to prison I realized that I would be used of God. There is a prison ministry because of me.

My name is Pam Miller, I am 40 years old, and I live in Sheridan Arkansas. I came into the program (Wings of Eagles) to change my life. My first day here was June 30, 2005. I started using drugs when I was 9 years old after my father raped me. After my father would hurt me, he would usually leave the house for a while. I would go into his closet where he stored his drugs to get some so I could get high. All this did was kill the pain for a little while. After six months he took me back to my mother's house. I thought that she would make him pay for what he had done, but all she did was tell me that I should keep quite about all that had happened. I soon began to run away from home. Because of this, I was in and out of Juvenile homes beginning when I was eleven. I have been married 5 times and I have 3 children which will have nothing to do with me. Now my life has changed and I have given my life to God. I am a changed person. I have a high school diploma, and I have a job. The job that I have now is the first job that I have ever had legally. I used to work on the streets and that was the only way that I made it from day to day. And I have used cocaine. There is one thing though God has taken me out of that black pit and has put me in a place that cares about me. My family comes to see me now, and there are apart of my life now. I talk to two of my kids on the phone and one day soon Stephanie will come around. It is Gods will to be a part of each others life.

My name is Yolanda Dennis. Since I was 13 years old I've been using some sort of drugs, even though I was raised in a very drug free lifestyle with my parents. I chose to move in with my mother where I found a different way of life. Not to blame her for my choices they were all mine. I have been up and down the drug rollercoaster since, during which time I had 3 children, 1 marriage and divorce. Now I'm married but separated for 2 years. DHS has stepped in my life as well and I have been busted with a meth-lab. Several friends of mine pointed me in the direction of Wings of Eagles in June of 2006. I could not have ever been directed to a better place and God knows I could not have ever been given a better blessing. Thank you Jesus!

I'm from Eupora, MS. I've been drinking since I was three years old. When I was five years old I started dipping snuff and going to the liquor store with my dad and picking out what I wanted to drink. I started smoking weed when I was 12 years old. I started using speed pills when I was thirteen. I bought my speed from kids at school. I started buying my own liquor with money I'd earned when I was thirteen. I graduated school when I was seventeen and moved to Texas because my mama was worried about me and wanted me to move away. When I moved to Texas, I started using crystal meth and acid. I lived there for six years and then moved to Arkansas. I was still using drugs and drinking and chasing wild women. In October 2003, I began smoking crack. I was able to control all the other drugs, but when I began smoking crack I lost everything. I lost my wife, my family, my job, my vehicle, my tools, my dignity and my self respect. I was doing things that I never thought I would do. I was hanging around with a crowd I didn't even fit in. I considered First Pentecostal Church of North Little Rock to be my church home. When I realized that I couldn't make it anymore on my own, I decided to go to Windsong Ranch Rehabilitation Center. I had heard of this program at church. I took my crack pipe and laid it on the altar and asked God to take it from me. I came to the program June 12, 2005. God miraculously delivered me and has changed my life completely.

I'm from Cabot. I began using meth when I was 15 yrs old. I was just being a part of the crowd but when I was 19 it really began to get a hold of my life. I really disappointed my family. I came here because I thought I was court ordered, but now that I'm here, I'm really glad that I've come. God is beginning to redirect my life since I came July 31, 2005. When I got here I didn't even believe in God, but now I can really feel God. I know that He's the one that's been watching over me.

My name is Kelly Bethea, and I came to Wings of Eagles on February 23, 2005 from Pulaski County Jail. My husband Mike came to Windsong Ranch two weeks later, March 7, 2005. Mike and I had been cooking dope for about 2 years, but had stopped 6-months prior to our arrest. We were still using however, and had not gotten rid of the evidence of where we had cooked. Mike is from Jacksonville, Arkansas and I'm from Gravel Ridge. I started smoking cigarettes and pot when I was twelve years old. When I was eighteen I did my first line of crystal and began using cocaine. I continued drinking and using drugs until I was arrested December 15, 2004. Mike was a drug user when I met him at work. We would get high together at lunch. After we married, we wanted to learn to cook our own, but no one wanted to show us how. The first time we tried it on our own, the room he was cooking in caught on fire. The man that left us the fuel said, it was a curse. Once we started cooking in our home, it consumed us. We began to neglect everything, each other, our children, and everything else. We were no longer dancing with the devil, but we had invited him in. We were no longer employed anywhere and were living off my disabled child's SSI check that came each month. We rarely cooked to sell, we primarily cooked for ourselves. We were barely existing. About six months prior to getting arrested, we began to try to change our lifestyle on our own. We were still using occasionally, but trying to go to church and find employment. We thought we were doing good, but had still not been able to completely shake the addiction. On December 15, my husband was taking our daughter to school and was pulled over for a brake light that was out on our vehicle. Because he appeared nervous, they searched the car and found drug paraphernalia. They then searched our home and found an old meth lab. Our children were taken from us for maintaining drug premises and child endangerment. We had missed the Sunday services the day before because we were high. My daughter asked me that Sunday afternoon how to be saved, but I was too messed up to concentrate, so I told her that I'd find the scriptures and show her later. I went to jail the next day! I was in jail a little over two months before we went to court for plea and arraignment. The day before we went to court, a woman in jail showed me a letter of acceptance that she had received from Wings of Eagles drug rehabilitation center. Several people had tried to talk to me about going into an in-house rehabilitation program, but I was not at all interested. I still thought that I could do it on my own! A fellow inmate gave me a bible, and I found a card in it with the scripture Micah 7:7-9 on it. I wrote this scripture in a letter to my husband and gave it to him in court. He had a letter for me that he had written the same scripture in! Our lawyer had told us to agree to everything that was said in court and we would get 5 years probation, but when the report was read, it was very incorrect, so having sworn to tell the truth, we refused to agree to the report. The judge closed our folders and said plea denied, and we were sent back to jail. Before I could be transported, they came and got me and took me back into the court room. When the judge called me back up, Mike Rankin stood by me and they released me to the rehabilitation program. I had not even asked to come, but I knew that God had his hand in my life. I was unsure of a lot of things when I came, and there were many things that I really didn't understand. I began to pray that my husband could be released here as well. In two weeks, God answered my prayer. We did everything that we were asked to do and gradually we began to come to understand a better way of life. In April, we went to court and were given 5 years probation and all of our fines were dropped. By June, we had completed 90-days of rehabilitation and were both employed. We were able to rent our own place and get a vehicle. We soon had our own checking and savings account and in September, 2005, custody of our little girl was restored to us. Our lives have been completely changed. We are no longer addicted and there is a new found peace in our home. Instead of fighting amongst ourselves, we now have regular family devotionals and a new found love for one another and God.

I was raised in Vidalia, Louisiana, the son of an apostolic minister. We moved to Alabama when I was in high school. I started dipping when I was about fifteen years old. That led to smoking cigarettes and marijuana and drinking. I started hanging around the wrong crowd. When I met my wife we were already both users. My wife and I got in church and did good for a while. I got to working too much and missing church. One thing led to another, and when my wife's brother was in a bad car wreck, she started hanging out a lot there. Another brother was bad on crack and she started using too. In the summer of 2004, she got arrested for possession and drug paraphernalia. It was then that I really realized what was going on. I was against it for a while but finally I gave in November 2004, and joined her smoking. In January, my wife was taken to prison for probation violation and I was very depressed. Searching for help, I went to a rehab in Birmingham, Alabama but that only lasted for seven days. I was clean for only a day or two, and then I went back to using. Sin took me to the bottom. I lost my business and all my tools and vehicles. I sold everything to buy more drugs including the pictures off the walls and the stepping stones in my yard. My addiction destroyed my family. July 4, 2005, I decided to come to Windsong Ranch. My mom had mentioned hearing of this program and I was tired of running. I wanted to get my life straight. Since coming to the program, I have been delivered and set free of the things that had me bound. I was able to have a lot more quality time with God when I came to the ranch. I was able to fellowship with others that battled the same things that I fight, and see what a difference that God can make. I became thankful and have come to understand how to deal with the issues that led to my previous addictions. I plan to get my home back in order and get back on my feet. I want to take this program back with me to my home church in Alabama. I want to help my wife get her life straight after getting out of prison. I want to raise my family in a Godly way and help others. I pray that God will give me strength to repay the favor that God has given me to help someone else in need.

I am from East End, Arkansas. My drug of choice was meth. I was addicted to the needle. I entered the Wings of Eagles program at Windsong Ranch August 16, 2004. My favorite ACTS class and instructor is J. P. Parker on Tuesday nights at 6 p.m. I like that class because it reminds me of who I used to be and where I came from. It reminds me of what I used to do and that I never want to go back to using drugs. The ACTS class has taught me things I never knew about drugs. I am studying to get certified to work in the ACTS classes so that I can help others get free as well. In May 2005, I was able to get my own apartment and my own vehicle. I have kept a steady job since completing the program and I now get my son on the weekends. I even have my own checking account! I still faithfully attend budgeting class and have been able to make it on my own! I thank God every day that I can live a normal, sober life. When I came to the program, I was facing many years in prison. Thanks to my success in this program, that was reduced to five years probation and drug court. My freedom is a miracle indeed!

I am 40 years old and from Little Rock, Arkansas. I was raised in a very dysfunctional, confused family. There wasn't a lot of love there. My father was bitter and my mother evil. I was very rebellious and in and out of juvenile. I started smoking and drinking when I was 14 years old. I attended Catholic schools for 9 years. I left home when I was 15 and started living with older men for survival. I did this for most of my life. I have used drugs and alcohol the majority of my life. I started with powder and then went to the needle, finally I ended up with a crack pipe. My addiction took me down the road of prostitution and lesbianism; cost me my four beautiful children; I've been imprisoned four times; and I murdered a man that raped me at the age of 22. On July 11, 2005, I entered the Wings of Eagles rehabilitation program. I have now turned my life over to the care of God. I've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb and I know that God has a work for me to do.

I am from Gainesville, Texas. I have been an addict since the age of 19. Cocaine, alcohol and other drugs stole everything from me including my home, family and children. I had lost my honor, my dignity and my self-respect. November 7, 2004 I came to Windsong Ranch. Since I have been in the program and have began attending ACTS classes I have really seen a change in my life. I know now that with God in my life, I can regain all the things that I lost and much more. The ACTS classes have convinced me that I can live life sober and drug free.

I am from North Little Rock. I am 45 years old. I started smoking pot when I was 15. By the time I was 21, I had been to prison and was addicted to speed. I was a junkie for 20 years. Sometimes I could shoot $200 worth of dope a day. The worst part of my drug addiction was that it took the most precious things in my life away. I have two boys, ages 6 and 7, and the best marriage a man could want. I lost them because I wouldn't stop doing drugs. October 22, 2004 I came to Windsong Ranch. The ACTS classes have boosted my faith in God. I know that without him I could already be dead. My favorite class is Tuesday night with Instructor J. P. Parker. After completing the program, I have returned home, but I still keep in close contact with all my instructors that were a vital part of my freedom from addiction.

I was raised on the Little Rock Air Force Base until I was thirteen. When I was eleven, a friend invited me to church. When I was twelve, I got saved and baptized and my family started going to church. My dad got baptized and even quit drinking. When I was thirteen we moved off the base and two years later, my dad retired. He wasn't happy with the jobs that he got after that and started drinking again. When I was in Junior High, he decided to go spend a year in Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, he ended up staying for several years with only a few months visits back home. He missed all my football games. I began to hang out with friends that were a bad influence and they introduced me to marijuana. I never went to school high. I only drank and smoked weed on the weekends. I dropped out in eleventh grade and got my GED. I started my own business as a computer consultant and that lasted only a year because I was making too much money and drinking too heavily. My girlfriend got pregnant and had an abortion. I quit my business and went to rehab. I was clean for only a few months, I continued smoking marijuana and drinking. I went from job to job hoping to find a job that would be a drug free environment, but was unable to find one. I even tried another rehab. My girlfriend got pregnant again and I had a little girl. When I was twenty, I went to a rave and was introduced to acid. The relationship with my girlfriend dissolved and I started paying child support. My drug use became worse when I began to use meth and cocaine. In March, 2005, I was arrested for possession of meth and marijuana and intent to deliver. I was already on probation for driving on suspended license and possession of marijuana. I was depressed and suicidal and longing for a change. My probation officer told my mom about this program. My mother talked me into trying it. She said this program was different from the others. April 12, 2005 I found myself at Windsong Ranch. After the first week of being in the program, I got baptized in Jesus name and came out of the water speaking in tongues. When I was using drugs, I prayed that God would deliver me and that I could get a closer relationship with him. Thank God he answered my prayers! I really want to get my life right for my daughter. I have never been allowed to be a part of my daughter's life and I want that very much. This program have given me direction and cleared up my mind. I have a closer relationship with God. Before coming here I often had thoughts of suicide. Now I have a job and I'm trying to go forward with my life.

I grew up in Gravel Ridge, AR. I came from a very dysfunctional family with alcoholism, violence and abuse. I didn't realize it wasn't supposed to be that way until I went to school. I got addicted to meth at 16. I moved to Arizona and was able to hide my addiction from my wife and two children for seven years. The marriage ended in divorce. I began to really get down from there. I then had another child by a girlfriend that was also an addict. I came here August 8, 2005, because my sister prayed me here. She had come successfully through the program and it gave me hope for myself. I've been addicted for 18 yrs. I lost everything to drugs. Since coming to the program, I've been delivered of a 18 yr addiction to cigarettes. I'm not depressed anymore, addicted anymore and I'm feeling more confident in myself.

I am from Magnolia, Arkansas. I was addicted to crack and methamphetamine for 11 years. I have been clean for ever since I first came to this program. I have never been able to stay clean this long. I arrived at Windsong Ranch May 16, 2004. I attribute a lot of my sobriety to the frequent ACTS classes that I've attended since my arrival. My favorite instructors are Beau Parker, Rickey King and Bo Cole. Their past experience with addiction and testimony of overcoming the addictions has been a great help to me. I am very thankful that I no longer feel the need for drugs. In February 2005, I got married to a beautiful young lady in the church and we are expecting our first child in March 2006. My wife and I are very active in helping with the rehabilitation program.

I am from Los Angeles, California. I am 46 years old. I was raised in an orphanage until I was 5 years old. During those years I was placed in several foster homes but only for short periods of time. When I was five, I was finally placed in a permanent foster home. This family changed my name from Jennifer to Lisa. The man was an alcoholic and came home drunk every night. The foster father frequently crawled in bed with me when I was a child and molested me. I started drinking whiskey when I was nine years old trying to escape the nightmare that my life had become. Besides the sexual abuse, I endured continual physical and mental abuse. I was regularly beat and for several days at a time would be left at home with out any thing to eat and unable to go to school. My foster parents occasionally took me to church, but we always got kicked out because he would come drunk and she caused a lot of trouble gossiping. I started taking mini thins when I was 14 because I had to get a job so I could buy my own food and clothing. When I was 17, I was raped by six guys and left in someone's front yard for everyone to see. Later that year I got pregnant. Afraid that the baby might be his, my foster father held me down while my foster mom beat my stomach. They then took me to the hospital and had the baby removed telling everyone that I had murdered my baby. After that, I was a basket case. I went to every kind of drug I could find. At this point I now hated men and turned to a woman for fulfillment. I openly became a lesbian. This lasted about a year until I lost my job because they found out I was gay. The only thing I knew to turn to then was being a drug whore. I began using the needle when I was 22 years old. For many years I lived on the streets, under bridges, in cars, and at different men's houses. I did every drug you could possible think of and sold most of them. Tired of being beat and used, I began traveling across the country trying to find stability. When I arrived in Arkansas, I got a job in a restaurant. I was still doing drugs, but was not being abused by men. After a year I got married for the first time. I was 31 years old. The marriage only lasted about a year. It was a disaster because of our addiction to methamphetamine. In 1993, I met my husband Jamie who was the brother of my drug dealer Lynda. For the next 11 years, Lynda and I did drugs and gambled together. I was still using the needle. When I would think of quitting, another dealer would give it to me for free. In 2000 one of my husband's sisters began trying to get me to go to church. She called me almost every night for three years telling me about freedom from drugs and a better life. Finally in October 2002, I agreed to go to church with her. I found the help there that I'd been searching for all my life. I have been drug free for over two years now. I am an ACTS instructor and am able to see others set free from drug addictions. I was the first overseer of the women's facility for Windsong Ranch Rehabilitation Center. I have found the peace and fulfillment that I longed for all my life.

I am from Cabot, AR. When I came I was a junkie. I had just about everything that I could ever have wanted, and lost it all. I went from having everything to being homeless on the street. My mom wouldn't even answer the door for me. The doctor said I should be on antidepressants but God said I should be on my knees. I have six felonies a class Y, A, C. I'm facing eighty years. I was addicted for 17 years. I've been clean ever since I've come to this program, April 20, 2005. That's the longest I've ever been clean. I was brought up religious, but television began to destroy my mind as I entered my teens. We didn't have cable until I was a teenager. Since coming to the program I no longer crave cigarettes. I am now able to control my anger. I do not suffer depression and have been able to set goals in my life. Before coming to Windsong Ranch Rehabilitation program, I had tried AA and NA, but something was still missing. I was still miserable. It wasn't until I turn my life over totally to God that I was able to quit putting the needle in my arm.

I am from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. My father has been a Baptist minister all of my life. At the age of 15 due to peer pressure and my desire to fit in with others, I began to smoke marijuana. This led to the use of other drugs and finally my drug of choice, alcohol. By the age of 25, my life was a disaster and I had accumulated 5 DWI's. I tried many times during those years to change my life but failed every time. Thanks to this ministry and the ACTS classes, I can proudly say I have finally found deliverance. I am drug and alcohol free! In September, 2005, I paid the last amount on my fines for DWI's and no longer have to use a breathalyzer to get my truck going. In August, 2005, I was privileged to marry a very sweet, Godly young lady that shares my burden to help others. We are very excited about the children's church that we lead every Sunday morning. My wife is also the choir director and one of the church secretaries, and I am in charge of maintaining the church lawn. Truly God has blessed me.

My name is Gerard Trice. I came to Windsong April 26, 2006. I have been smoking weed since I was 10 years old. My life was consumed by selling crack. I would not listen to people that wanted to help me. I am here on a revocation of probation. Since I have been in this program I have been delivered from selling crack and smoking weed. This is the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

I checked into the Wind song Ranch in May, 2006 after being on meth for 15 years. The good Lord delivered me from meth and several other addictions that the devil had me bound up by. I'd very much like to thank God and Brother Parker for all of the things that they have done for me the last 35 days that I have been here, in this program.

My name is Nic Mahaney and I have been doing drugs since I was13 years old. When I came to Windsong in May 2006 I looked awful. I had a long beard and long bushy hair. My grandmother came to see me after I got cleaned up and did not recognize me at all. She didn't believe it was me until I spoke to her. My father and grandfather both have background of drugs and prison. Several years ago, God set my grandfather free and he is now a minister with the United Pentecostal Church. My father recently has received the Holy Ghost and has been set free. He is very active in his church trying to help others get the deliverance that can only be found in Jesus Christ. Since coming to Windsong, God has changed my life. He has gotten me out of jail and delivered me from drugs and alcohol. I thank God every day for what he has done for me and for this program.

Hi, I am Teresa. On the streets they called me Tee, "the drug streets that is." Though I was always called "classy queen of the hood", it was nothing to be proud of because I was a crack user. I've been using drugs for 5 years and really heavy for the last 2 years. I started hitting the pipe in September of 2001. I was in an abandoned house called the cocaine mall. It had lights and water but only used for drug users to smoke tempos/joints; that's tobacco and cocaine rolled up all in one. One night I ran out of papers and I had a lot of drugs and I did not have a way to go get rollups. A friend said, "Hey use my stem." I said no way. I'll keep it until the next day and of course I changed my mind, I put that crack rock on top of that glass @ brills and my boyfriend worked the fire. Boy, Boy, Boy that was the best high that I had ever had. Ever since then I have smoked crack cocaine. When I came to the Wings of Eagles Rehabilitation Center in June 2006, God delivered me from all desires of drugs and wrong doing. Thank God and Brother Parker for all that they have done and are doing for me.

My name is David Turney and I am 25 years old. I came to Windsong in May of 2006. By the age of 25 years old the devil had me bound by alcohol, marijuana and tobacco. Satan had stolen my peace and cunningly convinced me that I could not have joy without drugs, that I could not fill the void in my soul without the abuse of drugs. Today I know that the devil is a liar. The Lord has replaced all that the devil stole from me, including my peace, joy, and most rewarding my faith. All things are possible through Jesus Christ! If you want freedom surrender to God.