Tim

A JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION

My Name is Tim Henry and I’m from Sommervile, AL.

I grew up in a good family with both parents together as the middle child. As a middle child, I was picked on a lot as a kid, at home as well as at school, so I often would keep to myself. In high school, I started drinking just to ease the pain and at 18, I began taking pills, and sometimes, even selling them.

I was married at 24 and had a son one year later. Everything seemed good to my wife at the time, because it was all done behind her back. Once my wife found out, she left me. I looked for comfort from other people, and those people were the wrong crowd which introduced me to more hard-core drugs, like meth and cocaine. This would go on for 10 years until I realized I was missing something, but I didn’t know what. I didn’t make good choices and began making money selling drugs full time and this brought girls too.

God would then give me a wake-up call like never before. I lost 125 lbs. because of drugs then had a small stroke, and then lost my mother to lung complications. I went into a spiral that would lead me to Huntsville, particularly, the Downtown Rescue Mission. I enrolled in the program 5 months ago now, and have gotten to know my Creator God. He has changed my life.

Even now, facing congestive heart failure, I look for Christ at work in all circumstances and have even gotten to share my faith with nurses at the hospital. I know He is not done with me yet, and look forward to all He has ahead.

“AND WE KNOW THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.“ Romans 8:28

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