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Floyd |
Hello Everyone, My name is Floyd Rossum. I would like to first thank God and the Denver Rescue Mission staff, donors, and volunteers for giving me an opportunity to briefly reflect on my life and testimony. I was born in a small town in Texas and never knew about the city but I would soon find out. After graduating from high school and then to college, I got drafted and played minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies. After being released from the Phillies and not being picked up by another team, anger and frustration set in. I eventually lost my way to drugs and alcohol for 13 years. During that time my wife and I had three children and I hid my addiction from them. I tried to get back on track, but the drugs kept me down. I turned to drugs and alcohol because it seemed to be the way to get rid of all my problems, but my problems caused my addiction. By now, I was staying with my cousins who were all on drugs. We never had much to eat; the lights were always off, every penny we got we spent it on drugs. It got to a point where my Mom wouldn’t let me come home at times because she was scared I was going to take something. Then I turned to a life of crime and started going in and out of jail. I spent 15 months in a state jail in Texas and tried one other program called the therapeutic community (TC). I got out and I did okay for a while, but went back on drugs again. But this time would be the last time because by now my whole family was involved. In a desperate attempt to save my life, my sisters and brother asked me to come to Colorado and I did drugs again. My sister brought me to the rescue mission twice and I did not think it was a good idea because of the people that I saw laying around on the street. That was not the place for me! Finally, I gave up and decided to give it a shot and I went to my brother and he brought me to the mission...The New Life Program has really given me a chance to have a different outlook on life and a reason to live, it has changed the way I think, feel, and I know that I will never be the same. After I have graduated the program I see myself doing just what I am doing now, helping others to know that there is help. Not only that, but working hard for my kids and family, my relationship with them is stronger than ever before. I do not know where I would be if it wasn’t for the Denver Rescue Mission. But thanks be to God and the Denver Rescue Mission, the prayers of my family and the prayers of the saints, I am clean and sober and once again on the path of righteousness. Thank you all for allowing me to share my heart with you today and God bless and continue to keep safe, each and every one of you, and those you love.
Floyd read his letter of testimony, above, at the Mission’s 2005 Annual Banquet. |
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