Men's program
“Pull quote from Todd's filmed testimony, already on the current men's page and waiting to be transcribed.”
Todd · Class of {year}
Stories
Graduate stories
These are first-hand accounts from men and women who completed the program at John 3:16 Ministries. Every one of them arrived at their own rock bottom, stayed six months or longer, and paid nothing. Filter by program or year, or read them all.
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“Pull quote from Chris' filmed testimony. Names, years, and photo releases needed before publication.”
Chris · Class of {year}
Women's program
“Three testimony videos are already on the current women's page. Each one is a story waiting to be transcribed.”
Name · Class of {year}
Men's program
“Somebody who did thirty days somewhere else first. That story carries the long-term recovery page too.”
Name · Class of {year}
Women's program
“A story about the first month, the blackout, and what it was like on the other side of it.”
Name · Class of {year}
Told by a family
“One story told by a parent or a spouse. The single most valuable piece of content on the Families side.”
Name · Parent of a graduate
Placeholder cards. The four theme testimonials on the current alumni page come down at launch.
Podcast
Stories of Hope
Host Lisa Gibson Fischer sits down with residents, instructors, and graduates, and they talk about how bad it actually got, what their rock bottom looked like, and what Jesus Christ did about it. New episode every week. Full transcripts are published with every episode.
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Transcripts are the point. A weekly podcast running over a year currently produces zero indexable text on this domain.
Graduating classes, 2003 to today
Every class photo and diploma is a group of people who came here at their worst, stayed at least six months, and walked out. This one page replaces roughly twenty thin year-archive pages, with an anchor per year so a graduate lands on their own class.
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If you graduated, tell us where you are now
We publish these because somebody sitting in a truck at two in the morning reads them and calls the next day. If you came through this program, your story is the thing that gets the next person here.
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