I was raised by the best parents in the world.  I grew up in church, but that did not stop by addiction.  I first drank at the age of 14.  I blew out my knee in high school and that took me down a long dark path of opioid and alcohol addiction.  For the next 15 years my addiction kept getting worse until February 26^th.  I was arrested for drinking and driving.  My parents, my beautiful wife, Taryn, and my beautiful daughter were done.  I set in jail for 7 days, cried out to God, and he saved me.  I came to the ministry on March 5, 2023.  I was dead emotionally, spiritually, and almost physically. At first I was ashamed and embarrassed that I had to come to John 3:16 but that quickly changed.  All of the instructors and residents loved me until I loved myself.  On March 12^th I gave my life to the Lord and I was forever changed.  I had life.  I felt true peace, joy, and love for the first time.  I gave Jesus everything and submitted to Him.  I dug into the Word and it filled the hole in my heart.  After a month my wife and family came back.  At 3 months Richard asked me to sing in the band.  I was nervous because I had never sung but he told me that God reveals things to us that we never knew we could do once we submit to Him.  I have had the great pleasure to work on every crew on camp, but the greatest thing I have done is getting to sew into the new guys.  When I asked for my date to graduate Phillip told me I was going to be the 2000^th graduate.  I was shocked and honored.   The main thing I want to say is this has nothing to do with Jaret Patterson because my thinking and decisions got me here.  This is about John 3:16 and most importantly Jesus Christ.  I am looking forward to going home and being the husband, father, son, and brother that I have never been and bringing guys back to John 3:16 to save their life like Jesus has done in mine.  I love John 3:16 and I love Jesus!