New STL van helps Serbia Teen Challenge
June 7, 2005

Thanks to STL missionaries are able to reach out an minister to students through Teen Challenge in Serbia.

Here is a testimony from one student in the Raskresce Teen Challenge newsletter

Until a year ago, I was just “Cane-the-junkie” in everybody's eyes. After nine years of drug addiction and a number of attempts to ‘get off' drugs from using replacement medication… to attempts to change my environment by going to the countryside, staying on neuropsychiatry wards… I realized there is no way out and that I would be a junkie forever.

Then, completely broken, I came to “Raskrsce Teen Challenge”. I entered the program with a totally devastated mind, not knowing how much that program would give me and change my life. At first, I saw hope in the changed lives of people who had completed the program.

Later, through a dim vision, I started making out a hope for me, a life completely free of drugs. Today, after a year on the program, I can say I am fully rehabilitated, both physically and mentally I have never had a better and happier year in my whole life. All I wanted was to get rid of drugs, and God gave me a “super” life. There is no place for drugs in my head.

Nowadays, I am filled with other things: socialising, working, reading the Bible, prayers, sport. Before I could imagine many things; but to be able to play football again, have a smile on my face, with no desire for drugs—I certainly couldn't imagine that.

With the new STL van missionaries we have had the chance to sit and listen to these ex-addicts tell their stories to us. It moves you to tears and beyond tears. It's why we're out here.