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JANUARY 2024 VOLUME 24 | ISSUE 1 sohmission.org<br />
New year, new hope!<br />
From an addict to a disciple of Christ<br />
J<br />
effrey started his life here in Houston but has no<br />
memories of those earliest days. When he was<br />
only two years old, his parents divorced, and<br />
Jeffrey’s mother moved him and his two brothers<br />
to Los Angeles. She did the best she could for her<br />
boys, but they lived in gang-infested territory. After<br />
Jeffrey’s cousin and a friend were murdered by gang<br />
members, the family returned to Houston.<br />
Jeffrey’s mother brought her boys to church every<br />
Sunday, hoping to keep them on a straight path.<br />
However, in his early teens, Jeffrey began to<br />
stray from that path. Like many of his peers, he<br />
experimented with drugs, starting with marijuana and<br />
moving on to crack cocaine.<br />
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