My name is Jacob Valenzuela, and I am twenty-nine years old. I arrived at Turning Point Men’s Home in October of 2022, I was a broken man.
I now wake up sober and of sound mind each morning thank God for using Turning Point Men’s Home to restore my life to sanity. Many thought the idea that I would be able to change my life would be impossible.
But all glory to God for those that always prayed for me and never gave up. Left to my own devices I could not pull myself away from the daily madness. The daily dishonesty and inability to face the fact that I was completely lost.
As I traveled down the road of addiction further and further my public displays of
intoxication became a daily occurrence. I had lost all control of my life. A few months prior to coming to the Men’s Home death was knocking at my door.
I fell into a coma, being kept alive by a machine. I ended up in a wheelchair after I burnt my feet so badly walking down the street barefoot, on a summer day in June. The end of the madness came when the United States Marshalls surrounded my home and took me into custody for a horrible act I committed while drunk.
My mother had told me to go peacefully and trust God. I did and God moved.
I now wake up sober and of sound mind each morning thank God for using Turning Point Men’s Home to restore my life to sanity. Many thought the idea that I would be able to change my life would be impossible.
But all glory to God for those that always prayed for me and never gave up. Left to my own devices I could not pull myself away from the daily madness. The daily dishonesty and inability to face the fact that I was completely lost.
As I traveled down the road of addiction further and further my public displays of
intoxication became a daily occurrence. I had lost all control of my life. A few months prior to coming to the Men’s Home death was knocking at my door.
I fell into a coma, being kept alive by a machine. I ended up in a wheelchair after I burnt my feet so badly walking down the street barefoot, on a summer day in June. The end of the madness came when the United States Marshalls surrounded my home and took me into custody for a horrible act I committed while drunk.
My mother had told me to go peacefully and trust God. I did and God moved.
I fought my court case while at Turning Point Men’s Home. Rather than sitting behind prison walls for seven years God allowed me to be sentenced to eighteen life changing months with Turning Point Men’s Home.
All glory goes to God. Many thanks to all those that support this ministry through prayer and through financial blessings. Thanks to all those that worked to allow me to come to the home and those involved in the day-to-day operations of overseeing this ministry.
My beautiful sons Cole and Axel have a sober father today. My mother and father have a son filled with hope and gratitude. My siblings have a brother back that was so lost in darkness there seemed no possibility of light.
I pray the light I have can bring hope to the lost, struggling and suffering alcoholic. Matthew 11:28 says “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” I came to the Lord and found rest. I turned from my wicked ways and was given new life.
All glory goes to God. Many thanks to all those that support this ministry through prayer and through financial blessings. Thanks to all those that worked to allow me to come to the home and those involved in the day-to-day operations of overseeing this ministry.
My beautiful sons Cole and Axel have a sober father today. My mother and father have a son filled with hope and gratitude. My siblings have a brother back that was so lost in darkness there seemed no possibility of light.
I pray the light I have can bring hope to the lost, struggling and suffering alcoholic. Matthew 11:28 says “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” I came to the Lord and found rest. I turned from my wicked ways and was given new life.