This week I've been teaching at the Baltimore Teen Challenge very near Patterson Park. Sitting around the table with six students in the program that are working to set their lives in order and overcome their addictions to Drugs, Alcohol, and Pornography. They each come from slightly different backgrounds and different parts of the country, but now find themselves living together in this residential program and sorting through questions of recovery, family, and faith. I've been impressed with these men that they are making the decision to stick it out. The door isn't locked. They choose to stay there because they know it is the pathway to freedom.
This group was particularly inquisitive. In each session they would ask questions, and especially on the breaks the questions ranged from church to theology to education. I tried my best to answer their questions, and most of them I had an answer for. I have a lot of confidence in them, and look forward to hearing about their graduation; not just from the induction center, but from phase 2 as well.
--Ben
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