“Before coming here, I was confused… now I have a purpose in life.”
When Bubba was a little boy, his mother abandoned him and his father sent him to live with relatives, leaving him feeling rejected and worthless. “I had anger issues, but I hid them,” he says. “Everybody saw me as a good kid.”
In high school, Bubba excelled in football and academics, but outside of school, he began expressing his anger. “I started running the streets with friends, doing bad things.”
When he was 18, Bubba and his friends crashed a stolen car going 120 miles an hour. Miraculously, they walked away without a scratch. “I’d never had a strong relationship with God before, but from that moment on, it grew,” he says.
It was his first offense, so Bubba was given a short jail sentence. But when he was released, he had no place to live. “I was couch surfing or staying on the streets, trying to feed myself,” he says.