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The New Life Center is a place of miracles; a place where
men in bondage to drugs and alcohol receive freedom through Jesus Christ. It
is a place where smiles replace frowns; a place where men who once knew
loneliness and misery come to know love and laughter. Nestled in the
peaceful surroundings of Simpson County, the New Life Center is a world away
from the urban street life known by so many drug addicts and alcoholics. The
New Life Center is the perfect setting for Christ centered recovery.
Every man who
comes to Gateway Rescue Mission is offered the opportunity to learn what
the new life in Christ can do to help him overcome any bondage he may be
experiencing.
In the early
years of the mission, alcoholism was the "usual" form of
addiction. However, with the eighties and nineties has come
the epidemic spread of cocaine addiction.
Also
with the "modern" era has come an even more deadly disease -
situation ethics. This along with a perverted sense of
morality is harder to reverse than any form of addiction.
 "As
he thinketh in his heart...." Selfishness
and self-gratification has led the people who come to us back to
what the Bible describes as "man doing that which is right in his
own eyes."
The
centrality at the New Life Center is the exchanged life in Jesus
Christ. Not I but Christ. Until an individual can come to the
position that he can do nothing without Christ, it is impossible for
any permanent, meaningful change to take place. Our five month
program takes a man through the scriptures and shows him how to surrender
his life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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