“Addiction comes when you’re not seeing it and it’ll run you down like a monster,” Darryll says.
He should know. He had a wonderful family, a lucrative job, and a lovely home, but partying with his co-workers set him in the path of that monster. “We thought we were just having fun, but it went to another level for me,” Darryll says. “It started out slow, but my drinking and drug use progressed.”
Eventually, his addiction took over his life. “I lost my family, my job, everything,” he says. “My life was shattered. I finally hit rock bottom.”
It was then Darryll decided to come to Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission and enter our House of Hope Recovery Program. “It was so nice to be around people that understood,” Darryll says.
Darryll’s faith had waned in recent years, but through the program’s Bible studies and spiritual mentoring, he reestablished his relationship with the Lord. “I’d given up,” he says. “Hope of the Valley changed my way of thinking and brought me back to Him.”