“If you met me ten years ago, wow, you would have seen one mess of a person.” For Stephen the party never stopped.
He lived in a world where drugs were plentiful and run-ins with the police were common. As Stephen went from addict to junkie, he said “the need for drugs overcame everything else.” His life was spinning out of control until one day he wound up alone in a car, a lethal dose of cocaine waiting for him in a syringe.
I just wanted the world to stop
“I just wanted the world to stop,” he said, “Let me get off. “When I reflect back now and look at that moment, I knew that God was not done with me yet, that He had something more for me, and He spared me that day.”
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“When I reflect back now and look at that moment, I knew that God was not done with me yet, that He had something more for me, and He spared me that day.”
“When I reflect back now and look at that moment, I knew that God was not done with me yet, that He had something more for me, and He spared me that day.”
— Stephen Prendergast, Teen Challenge Canada Graduate
— Stephen Prendergast, Teen Challenge Canada Graduate
