Life Renewed After Healed of Drug Use

This church has made an impact on Plainfield city in many ways. Years ago a few members with backgrounds in construction started a business. Whenever someone moved to Plainfield to join the church and needed a job or if someone in town asked them for a job they would hire them and teach them construction skills. Some of our teenage sons were part of this business too, including mine. My son recently ran into one of the young men who worked with them. He was in a bad way when he started working with them. He was on drugs and he had anger issues and was in a pretty bad place. My son told me that they would come to work in the morning to him shouting, “I hate you and I’m going to kill you all.” He would carry on like that for a time. When he finally stopped my husband would say, “Are you done yet? Now go pick up that hammer we have work to do.” They would start working. When Jimmy ran into Thea in the store the other day after many years he said, “I can’t thank you and your dad enough. You taught me so much and you let me work out my issues and then it was time to go to work.” He said he has now started a business of his own to hire and train young men who need help as he did. He’s clean, happy, and giving back to Plainfield. These church members didn’t preach or do much talking they just lived what they were learning in the church. They were out there in the trenches doing the work and letting their light shine and it literally saved lives and is still saving more like ripples in a pond that just keep going out. I am so glad we came here to help in this great work.