My personal story (short version)

This is my story (the Short Version)  I grew up in Honea Path, SC. My life as a child and teen were very difficult. My parents divorced and my father went to prison for drugs, he is still in there today. I went through emotional and verbal abuse for years and suffered lot of heart ache as well. Having a broken family is hard on the kids. When I became a teen I had no father figure and my mom worked all the time. Thank You mom for being our rock! So slowly I began to explore Drugs and Alcohol. Over the years I began to use drugs everyday. I thought drugs and alcohol could take the pain away but it never did. I began to do everything that comes along with partying: sleeping around, lying, stealing, and being disrespectful. As a result, high school was a blur! Later, I met my wife and we did everything backwards. We had a kid, lived together, and then we got married! Our first years together were hell. I worked all the time and continued to use drugs and alcohol, as well as a heavy addiction to pornography. I was a pathetic husband and father but, somehow, my wife had hope! Then in 2002 my wife began to attend New Spring Church in Anderson and immediately I noticed a change in her! She got saved then baptized and she began to invite me to come with her to church. I disliked church and everything that came along with it, but praise Jesus she never gave up on me! I went to New Spring about 4 months after she began to invite me and the rest is history! I got saved, baptized, and we both immediately began to pour into our church. My addictions stopped and for the first time in my life I realized what was important, my relationship with Jesus and family! I then began to be the leader in my home and started to beg God to show me why he made me. What was He calling to do for him? That’s where my passion for the streets arose. I began praying, serving my community, and reaching out to prostitutes, drug addicts, drug dealers and the homeless. My PASSION for the lost and the streets continued to grow and that’s when I met Matt. He had been praying for God to send him a leader and I had been praying that same prayer! We casted vision together and were blown away at how similar our visions were! So we let our guards down and began to see Jesus Christ piece this ministry together one life at a time! The LOT Project began and Jesus Christ has blessed us beyond words! We have seen hundreds of people come to Jesus and even marriages restored through this ministry. We are constantly asking Jesus to break our hearts for what breaks his. We want to see, with the strength and power that comes from Jesus Christ, a move of God sweep the streets of Clemson, Anderson, Central, Greenville and wherever else he tells us to go! We ask that you continue to pray for us as we seek God’s plan for this ministry. Thanks to all of our supporters we love you all!

-Jason