america i'm your host the right reverend david clark and now more than happy to come into your home today and to share with you in light of god business and my prayer for you today is that he will bless your life change your life bless your life going in and coming out wherever you are i believe that god delights to transform your life won't you give him a chance today well today we're going to do something special pittsburgh to be licensed to implement a drug recovery half a way house and this in my experiences is very very important and he's going to share his story today how it all came about i want to share how  when the drugs begin to come in to pittsburgh and some of the people who were no longer alive today but they started the evil work in pittsburgh but god gave him the assignment to fight and interfere with that particular campaign that they were conducting years ago so we're going to have just a wonderful time in communicating about this and communicating the things of god and the victory that he has won for us and the victory that he done for was for this is the day that the law has made but before we go there i'm going to share with you a melody that i believe will bless  hearts and we're going to have a wear and a prayer at the end of the show so call your neighbor call your friend call your momma call your  daddy if your children are struggling with addiction struggling with drugs and you want them to have special prayer call them and let them know that thank god for that medley of of songs giving him glory and giving him pray i'm blessed today to have are the only person i know who we see an assignment from god and this assignment was to destroy the works of the enemy in the drug culture i want you to share your story of how it all came about  started out with the program and the name of it was created love outreach and we had an assignment we bought a house on frank's town ave the upper part of price down avenue and turned it into a halfway house and we took in young men who were directed to drugs crack cocaine and heroin thought we had a young man at our halfway house whose father brought drugs into western pennsylvania heroin and he was he was caught by the police eventually and taken in but we took in the addicted and the afflicted into christ who was able to deliver them and set them free and we had several young men that come in who were partially funded by the state and we had to get the rest of the money and income ourselves to support our halfway house and to help the young men we took in a young man who his father was the person who brought drugs heroin and other kind of drugs into western pennsylvania and he was apparently apprehended by the police and so forth and taken in b i halfway house we work with him and several other young men for several years at that halfway house we have what we call spiritual therapy because we gardeners about how clean one dress dresses and how educated they are and if they're hooked on drugs they need another kind of therapy they need they need  spiritual therapy not just nice clothes and so forth education so anyhow we helped quite a few young men in that halfway house we were there for several years we get out reach in the city and homewood and work on the bird we've seen those young men and we had different people come in to talk with them and that was quite a while ago however it seems like it's gotten worse now seem like it's gotten much worse now  and halfway house like i had then they certainly need it now so we'll see what the future holds as far as our involvement in a halfway house working with clergy who was involved in this type of work when you started no there weren't were not in fact there was not that many period involved in this kind of work when we started out but we saw the need and guy made it on our hearts to do this work and so we were not afraid you know to get involved in this kind of activity so they chose us and we we we had halfway house for a number of years we had quite a few people and some of them i still have still been you know free and now i notice that you did your group that was with  an adequate message dealing with drugs and death and you know along that line beautiful now you were doing what i thought was the halfway house people living near place that we could use to feed people with as well so we advertised that different people cooked food for us and so forth and and of course we set up tables we set up tables and different communities and so forth and if it people on the outside as well as you know on the inside well that before christmas right before christmas when that was years ago i remember it was in my mind the same thing with the drama workshop workshop right right and what it was about it's about reaching out to people absolutely i have to do it somebody has to have that concern and that that mentality to these people need help we've got to do something see what we can do to help these  city it was the government funding religious organizations in this area no but we did get some money from the governor's office to help with i halfway house ok because they knew that was a problem it has really laid the foundation for for me we having a conference april second at the pittsburgh area airport looking for having a meaningful time we want to equal the clergy to be more effective yes and equip the community to be more sensitive anything and we have some of the group we anticipate having a wonderful way experience and meaningful experience so that our community can be aware of how to handle and we know now the medication the medication is creating different other problems in people's lives that kind of get addicted and they become addicted to if you just have to be skeptical you have to be you have to be careful because there are it could be detrimental also definitely but i don't know what can do a better job than you believe in the l pre music therapy these are part of our tradition right right right and the holy spirit flows lowness and we can bring  the world is in trouble yes and they really don't know what to do so but we know that what we've been using all our lives and what's been used before your cares upon jesus because i know that he can transform you he can heal you he can deliver you he can fix  us and there is a way that you can come to the lord there's a way that people will work with you and show you a better way and so if you want more care if you want prayer if you want if you need more systems i want you to call the number seven two four three seventy seven four three two again seven two four seven three seventy seven four three two seven two four three seven a yes seven four three two two and you call that number and you express there is there anything else you want to share in this particular area i know you can i know you can share we're from the lord yes we do have alone time for that but i know that is there any anything that you might have i just want to say i want you to believe all the law with me because to prayer manifests himself and i believe  right now because the man of faith the man in the spirit has prayed and it's all right now you're looking this way believe because this is the beginning of your life this is the beginning of your trance form life you no longer have