Adult and Teen Challenge helps addicts take on disease by changing their thinking and their life

Recently Dan Buridge, right, was joined by Dustin, left, for a fundraiser cross sale at Marvin’s.

Addiction can be overcome, but it requires help.

In this part of the Black Belt, that help comes in the form of a life-changing, Christian-based organization called Adult and Teen Challenge.

Reed Rybka, a recovering heroin addict, said he went into the program in August of 2020 and graduated a year later. “I stayed on as an intern, then they hired me to be on staff,” Rybka said. “God has blessed me beyond what I deserve.”

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