Life House Recovery Center
In February of 2009 Impact began a residential addiction recovery program, feeling the urgent call to do more to help the homeless and addicted it has been serving since its inception. The Life House Recovery Center is located at the Impact main campus and currently houses up to 5 men.
Harvey Davis, one of our elders, and Tim Sells, one of our ministers, along with house manager Nate Banks, lead the program. The 9-month program has been tweaked over the years and now includes Bible studies, 12-step meetings, working on campus, and both individual and group counseling.
There have been heartbreaking failures and exhilarating successes over the years. Several have been baptized. Some have graduated. Some have remained faithful. Recovery becomes more and more difficult after graduation as the challenges of daily life can flood back in. Impact remains in their corner throughout the ups and downs, successes and failures.
Addiction is a weapon that truly destroys lives. We believe the perfect answer to this weapon, however, is Jesus Christ. He is at the center of our efforts and strategy to help these men defeat addiction, and we have seen that those who have truly embraced Jesus have a much greater chance of recovery.
If you are struggling with addiction, we invite you to fill out the Life House application form and come visit with us to see if we’d be a good fit for helping you in your recovery.
***Check our GET HELP page for other addiction recovery related services***
A Message from Life House Manger, Nate Banks, A Recovering Alcoholic
Nate personally entered the Life House program in August 2012 and has since grown to become the Life House Manager. Nate’s years of sobriety and relationship with Jesus is poured into men struggling with addiction. His number one message to the men in the program is, “If Jesus can lead and guide me into sobriety, He is more than able to do the same for you.”
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? … 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35, 37-39)
