Watch and Read About Charley’s Testimony

Read about and listen to Charley!  This is an example of how God works at the Panama City Rescue Mission!  Your support matters.

This is my testimony on how I became reconnected to the family of God. I started a long time ago being disconnected and it took a long time of disobedience to God. At one time I was living for the Lord the next thing I knew I was living for the enemy and by that time was living for myself, to me it felt like the right thing to do, but it didn’t take long to see I was on the wrong track, I had gotten side tracked. I had chance after chance to straighten out but I continued to fail.  I thank God for my mother’s prayers for grace over my life and believe me God gave me a lot of grace. One night about 7 months ago I was up all night doing drugs and had spent a lot of money trying to fill the void in my heart, I was so down because I had really messed up, this is when God started dealing with me, I began to pray and plead with God, I felt God told to begin to walk, so I started walking and God was dealing with me about things in my life. I was walking down 231 crying because of my shame and hurt that I felt inside. I begged God for a ride because I had walked so long my whole body was hurting, I realized that my problems had problems and I needed help, so I kept walking until I couldn’t walk no more. I know that God was looking down on me and there came car and it passed me and then turned back around, a guy picked me up and he brought me to the Panama City Rescue Mission, I entered the Men’s Recovery Program and my whole life changed, the way that I saw things began to change. God used this staff to help me reconnect with Him, and this has saved my life, I now have a new hope in Christ for my future. God has given me a beautiful Church family and my mother is so proud of me. I thank God for the Men’s Recovery Program at the Panama City Rescue Mission, with God’s help my life has been transformed and now I can give back to others in Panama City and my community by letting God use me to help someone else.