I walked in needing a change, and wanting it even more.  I have never been in a rehab, and had no idea what to expect.  I thank God this is a Christian camp.  I knew nothing about our Lord, and what it meant to be a Christian.

Through the grace of God, I have truly been saved.  I’ve been baptized, and love walking with Christ.  My entire thought process has been changed.  My entire heart, soul, and mind have a new look on life. New and forever.

I realize that being an addict is a lifelong problem.  But through the recovery program here, I know I have the right tools to be aware of all the things that could make me relapse, and the tools to help me not too.  But if I did, I also have the tools and knowledge to seek the help I would need.

I really feel that through the OMC program I have the very best chance of rebuilding my life, and living sober through God, and knowing its one-day-at-a-time for an addict.

I thank you all for my life!

Kelly H.

I came here defeated and hopeless. I am leaving with peace, hope, and joy. This program will adjust your God-glasses. If you don’t have any, it will provide the means to get some. I leave knowing these few things: My value is best seen through the eyes of God. I am fortunate to have a power that makes all things possible. It allows me to walk in my storm. I now know that God didn’t leave me. I left God. I also know that he waited for me to come back and willingly forgave me when I asked him to. He not only forgave me, but poured out his grace in abundance. I know that God’s calling is without repentance. He called me to preach and nothing else will do- ever.  I got back in touch with my Lord and savior. He saved me, despite my sinful condition and I owe him my all. I am all in. I am not perfect, but someday, because of his grace and mercy, I will be. He took the punishment that should have been mine and gave me the reward that should have been His and I cannot thank him enough. Thank you to Our Master’s Camp for being the salt and light that helped me tap in to my power source again.

1 Thessalonians 1:2,3  We give thanks to God always  for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father.

Jeremy D.

I had literally almost lost everything. My house, car, wife, and family had all been taken from me due to my drug addiction. All hope was gone, and honestly, I was just tired of living life. It seemed like I was failing at everything and definitely had no care whatsoever for the future because I had already given up. This program was a last ditch effort to see if I could turn my life around. While being here I finally had a chance to catch my breath and escape my hopeless world and get to know who the real “me” is. I learned that it is impossible to still have a good life without drugs. Accepting Jesus Christ into my heart has shown me a new freedom in life. My eyes have been opened to what real love is all about. My hope in life is based on eternal things now rather than the temporary things the world has to offer. My daughter has a new daddy to look up to and be proud of now. I thank God everyday for the privilege to be a part of this camp. The Lord is alive and well, and I will carry what I learned here with me for the rest of my life.

I’ve spent a decade of my life as a total wreck.  I was addicted to alcohol and drugs and had become an angry person which no one could trust.  I contemplated suicide several times and at one point even put the gun to my head and almost pulled the trigger.  The fact that I didn’t was the first sign that God had a plan and wasn’t ready for me yet.

A short time later, I got very drunk, went for a drive, and blacked out at the wheel of my truck.  I flipped the truck off the road and rolled several times ending up in the woods.  I was charged with my third DUI.  A couple months later, I reluctantly entered “Our Masters Camp.”  Immediately, something started happening within me.

I began to pray and desire to be close to God.  I could not bear my problem on my own any longer and asked for God to help me.  I rededicated my life to Christ and got to work on renewing my relationship with him.  I began to feel a peace come over me and a joy that I’ve never experienced as an adult.

My faith has grown exponentially and I have a desire that burns within need to constantly grow and be filled with the Holy Spirit.  Without Christ, I could never have gotten my life back on track.  “Our Masters Camp” has been a vessel and blessing sent from God.  Without them, I might not be alive today.  Thank you.

A.  H.

“I feel an obligation to share with anybody that is suffering from substance abuse of any kind, that wants to escape the grip of addiction once and for all, Our Masters Camp is your solution. I completed the program myself and can personally attest that it was truly one of the best experiences of my life! The program works for many reasons: The people that founded and operate OMC are passionate about saving lives. They are full of patience and love and will not let you give up on yourself. If by chance you are not a christian or maybe have concerns about the spiritual component of this program, ask yourself “how is what I have tried working out for me?” Maybe you should give God a chance to help you. The worst thing that could happen is that you could save your life. If you have questions or concerns and you would like to talk with someone who has gone through the program I would be happy to talk with you. Our Masters Camp has my contact information. Good luck! and God bless you!
Phillip”

Hi. My name is Bo and I’m a grateful believer in God after giving him the finger for 48 years. I turned 49 recently and started praying for God’s help during my last trip to jail. I was raised in a God loving family and married a true child of God 24 years ago on August the 16th. My drug and alcohol abuse started when I was but 14 years old. On my first day of High School in 1976 I found that you could bring a couple dollars and go to the brand new school’s designated smoking area and buy a joint. This started a daily marijuana habit that would last up until I was 48.

My birth father was a member of a very famous football family and was killed by a train along with 3 other coaches after a big rivalry college football game in which he was a up and coming coach. I was 3. My mother was the child of an alcoholic who could not support her, her sister nor her mother. She was crushed and overwhelmed by my constant needs and activity level. I was left to fend for myself you might say. She loved me but did not posses the ability to deal such a tragedy and 2 very young boys on her own.

Soon after my mother remarried and I was paraded around from place to place as an important child of a state trauma. I was on a long path to selfishness that would ultimately hurt everyone I have ever loved. It was not her fault. I was lost.

I played college football and was very angry, so I did very well. But I was a mental mess. Angry got me places on the field but not in social settings. Blackout drunk during almost every trip to town, caused many a problem. Somehow I managed to fit the most wonderful women in between these bouts with my demons. We married and had children. I scrounged from meager job to meager job, because I wanted the most likely job that would not test for drugs. My family suffered.

We had 2 children who are both now in college as children of a mean alcoholic. I stayed away from legal trouble up until 2003. I got my first DUI on April Fools Day on 2003. Then a domestic violence shortly there after over being drunk and angry. I did not hit my wife but I threw things around and cussed violently at this true child of God. She was stricken with fright and apprehension. My children saw more than they should have to see. I went to anger management, and a secular rehab for 30 days to avoid jail. This was my second rehab. I would go again later for 90 days, to one of supposedly the best rehab facilities in the nation for a mere 28,000 dollar tab, that my good mother paid for.

More arrests would soon follow. In 2006 I got slapped with another DUI and 45 days in jail. I’m a college graduate from a very good family and I’m in jail again. I stayed straight for a year going to AA every day, riding with an older member who could drive me. I got drunk right before my 1 year birthday.  Then I got really smacked. Jail started to be regular, two more domestic violences’, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, criminal trespassing. I went to jail 4 times in 2010 alone and I suffered through 87 total days behind bars. I was ashamed of myself. I knew better, but could not stop. I asked God to help me in jail for the first time in my life.

My mother found Our Masters Camp in Pikeville TN. I enrolled. I did meditation, went to bible classes, did Christian 12 step work, participated in the camps work therapy and went to Jimmy Jewels Community Free Will Baptist Church. I felt better. I wasn’t angry anymore. I asked God to show me a sign. He did. When my 90 days were up, I was determined to go back to my home town. My mother thought it would be a good idea to go into the transition phase that Our Masters Camp provides, because I didn’t have a place to stay at night and I had been sleeping on the streets for 2 years now give and take. I prayed.

Now it has been 6 months and my wife is cautiously interested in my conversion. It will take some time. I am on a probation with my family for 2 – 3 years I figure. They wonder when I will go crazy again. It’s just a matter of time they think. I know this is different. This time I have God. This time I am trusting God, cleaning house and helping others. I am ready to do business. I am ready to be an adult. It’s over and I am so relieved. I am so happy. I am not angry anymore.

I’ve been down a hard road I could wish on no other person. I’ve been to plenty of rehabs. Our Masters Camp did something for me that no other rehab has done. They actually showed my how I could quit drinking and using drugs. The two guys that started AA in the 30′s had an initial concept before they came up with the 12 steps. Trust God. Clean House. Help Others. I know now that I was missing the most important aspect of anyone’s recovery. TRUST GOD.

Thanks Bo M.

Recovery for me has always seemed hopeless.  I remember that at times I would feel really inspired to stay clean, but days or even hours later I’d be back using.  It’s funny because even though you know there are a ton of support groups and recovering addicts in the world, you still feel so alone when you are in or coming out of addiction.  I shudder to think of those endless days and nights, running around trying to feed an addiction that could never be satisfied; my family wondering if I was okay or even alive; going to jails and court dates…it is a truly terrible life to be a hopeless addict trapped in your own skin.

To say that I am thankful, (so thankful) for what God and Our Masters Camp has done for my life is a pitiful understatement.  I know that I’d either be dead or locked up had I not gone to the camp when I did.  I was taking bigger and dumber risks and involving myself in actions and situations that I just had no business being in.  The biggest thing OMC did for me was give me a chance to just be away from everything and everyone from my old life.  This even included my family because I’d grown to use them as a sort of crutch.  So even though they loved and supported me through my entire addiction (a fact I will always be thankful for) I even needed space from them.  I just needed a place where they focused on allowing me to figure out who I was and who God is.

When I first got there, I was a bit nervous, but it really was only a matter of a single meal with all the guys and I was almost instantly comfortable and felt safe.  One thing about being up there in those quiet and serene hilly plains is that the opportunity to relapse is literally non-existent.  It was a bit out further in the country then I’m used to, but that was fine with me.  They have a small but pretty lake you can fish and release, plenty of space to walk, and there is always someone you can get with to get involved in the word.  No one there had all the answers, and I appreciated that.  They instead led me to search for the answers through class time every day that was focused on either recovery or on God’s word.

There has been some heart break along the way.  I’ve seen people come and decide they weren’t ready for recovery, and on the other side of things, I’ve seen plenty of people get really serious about recovery.  I’ve since left the camp and transitioned into the transitional program at the parent ministry of Our Masters Camp, which is named Providence Ministries.  Actually as I write this, I am in my dorm room in the ministries main building.  One of my roommates just walked in from working out, and my other roommate is relaxing because its his day off from work.  We hang out, talk about God, girls, and what were planning on doing with the rest of our lives…and the best part is we are doing this sober and with peace and contentment in our lives.  I know none of us is satisfied with where we’re at in life; we want to keep moving forward.  But we are all content with this path we are on.

OMC was not my first rehab.  In fact, I can’t remember anyone at the camp being in rehab for the first time.  I think this is because before, I tried to do it outside of God, and I didn’t want to give up certain parts of my life.  OMC helped me realize that in order to evolve, I had to let my old self die.  It’s definitely an everyday struggle, but last week I got nine months clean, but more important is that I actually can see how by working a good program, and approaching this thing daily and in God’s will, I can and will continue to live free from addiction and in victory.  I recommend OMC because it’s very affordable, (I couldn’t find anything even close price-wise), and because they are extremely passionate about saving lives.  Also, the food is really good, the ugly dog grows on you, I never had so much fun going to lunch and Wal-Mart, and because they saved my life.  M.