” New Name Counseling & Teaching……….What a perfect name for the good people that are helping me journey from being lost in various untruths about myself and about God, to being rid of the lies! For the first time in my 36 years of living I have a real relationship with God! This is an amazing journey! I have never felt so connected to God, and we have only just begun. I didn’t understand God most of my life and now at 36 years of age I am gaining the most important and wonderful relationship that I will ever have. I am learning to trust God and have faith in Him. This has got to be the coolest feeling I have ever experienced and it has only just begun! I am so fortunate to have New Name leading me to and through this season in my life. They have led me to a place where I am being set free from the lies that I had about God and myself and I’m on a new path to a new life. A life filled with faith and God’s Love! It is such an amazing journey and I am so very blessed to be on it.
     At my time spent at New Name I have gone from feeling unworthy of love and not trusting God, to feeling His love and finding faith in Him. I no longer feel alone, unworthy and lost. My life has truly changed! “

MMT

 

 

  ” When I got saved and delivered from drugs and alcohol in April of 2004 I found a new freedom and peace that I had never felt before. For a while I was in a new and great place in life; but as always, life did go on.
Shorlty after my experience I noticed the joy beginning to seem like it was wearing off, and I soon found myself battling depression and many other destructive things. I began to cope by pouring alot of my time into religious activities, but it didn’t help for very long. Overall I was miserable as I bounced back and forth from joy to depression, and I was filled with self-doubt. I knew that I was saved and I knew God had done an awesome thing in my life, so I just couldn’t understand why I felt so empty.
      I came to realize that even though the drugs and alcohol were gone, I had not yet learned how to live without them. Through a series of events I landed at New Name Counseling and Teaching Center in March of 2008. As of now (June of 2008) I’m about 75% through the counseling process and I’ve realized so many things about God and myself that I thought were true but have come to discover that they are not! God has brought to the surface things that I’ve not talked about in years, and some things I’ve never talked about before.
     My time here at New Name has been life changing in more ways than I can express, and even though there is a ways to go, I have so much hope in me that was not there a few months ago. I’m learning my identity! I’m learning that the names I have been calling myself are not true, and I’m learning the name God has been calling me all along regardless of my thoughts, feelings or actions. Because of His Son, He calls me Righteous!”

JM

 

 

 

 

     

   ” I am so thankful that God led me to New Name!! Several months ago, my son who struggled with addiction, entered into a nine month Christian residential program. He began on his road to recovery under the primary care of the staff, which left me with myself, and I realized that I needed help also. The program my son is in has a Family Recovery meeting once a week that my husband and I attend, so much incredible healing is happening for us as a family. A few months ago I began to feel God calling me to get some additional help and that’s when I heard about New Name.
     As I began the process it didn’t take long for me to realize that a spiritual battle had been raging inside of me for years. I discovered that the battle was taking place because I had many beliefs about God and myself that were totally wrong. I was saved at 16 so the big battle was won, but I had spent much of my time living like a defeated Christian. Now I am almost 40 and I have come to realize that Satan had taken all of the good things that God had blessed me with and twisted them in my mind.  I believed the lies about God and myself and learned to cope with life based on those lies.
     My son’s problems left me confused, tired, and best of all broken. Broken is where God started fixing me from the inside out, and it is an awesome journey!  I can’t tell you how exciting it is for me to discover that God loves me more than I can imagine, and not just in an “all of humanity kind of way”, but also in a personal way.  I have always prayed, read the bible, and went to church, but something was still missing. Now I have a deeper relationship with God because for the first time in my life, I am the “real” me.
       The real me is who God wants me to know.  The real me is who He created in the first place.  The real me is who He died for.  The freedom to be myself is one of the greatest gifts that I have ever received.  I have peace and joy now, and the funniest part of the whole thing is this, the first time I experienced joy, I wasn’t even really sure what it was.
       My time at New Name started out in desperation, but turned into a life changing experience and I wouldn’t trade it for anything!”

WJ