The Lifeline from Lifeline Recovery Center: Fall 2020

VOLUME 2 | FALL 2020

LIFELINE THE

A BANNER YEAR:

Record community support keeps Lifeline working miracles Pages 4-7

SOWING GOOD SEEDS: Volunteers, churches support Lifeline mission to treat substance abuse Pages 10-11

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Table of Contents GOD OF ALL GRACE

Year’s major challenges overcome by greater good

STRONG SUPPORT

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A BANNER YEAR

Record community support keeps Lifeline working miracles

Employee sees lives being changed DREAMS RESTORED

Graduate finds new life as business owner PARENTS’ LOVE

Donors credit Lifeline with saving their son MONTHLY GIVER

Business makes Lifeline part of its regular ledger

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Ways to give to Lifeline

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A HOLIDAY PLAN

How to stay sober during the festive season

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PART OF THE PLAN

Financial strategy necessary to achieve mission

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TO THE RESCUE

Golfer on Lifeline board leads tournament

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LABOR OF LOVE

Couple donates virtual annual banquet video

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PART OF THE FAMILY

A HAPPY PLACE

Annual banquet star’s past leads to ‘perfect job’

Churches contribute regularly

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JANUARY 1 - OCTOBER 19, 2020

Thank you to our 2020 donors!

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2019 Audited Financial Report

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SOWING GOOD SEEDS

Volunteers delight in seeing “light bulb go off”

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Brittany Cothran, Carolyn Langdon and Joni Poole join in the October celebration of 53 graduates.

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GOD OF ALL GRACE Year’s major challenges overcome by greater good

Most of us can identify with the popular 2020 meme of Reese Witherspoon transforming from the perky “Legally Blonde” Elle Woods in January to her haggard character, real-life Cheryl Strayed in “Wild,” by August.

Understatement: It’s been a tough year.

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Ashley Miller

2014 Graduate of Lifeline

But, oh, my, how we’ve been blessed this year at Lifeline! As I near the end of my first year as the executive director, I stand amazed at what Lifeline has accomplished during the pandemic.

During an economic recession, Lifeline has managed to raise more money than ever at our virtual annual banquet and golf tournament (pages 4-7). Donations, which we expected to falter as church services were canceled and people were out of work, have come in at a faster-than-usual rate, with more donated in nine months than in all of 2019.

Simply put, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Your generosity has allowed us to carry on, working every day to fulfill our mission of providing faith-based recovery for those struggling with addiction.

As a result of your faithful support and the commitment from our staff and volunteers, we have exciting results to share: 53 individuals celebrated completion of the program at our October graduation, and 120 have enrolled since January 2020.

Read the story of one of our graduates, Matt Morehead, on page 13. He completed the program in June and has already started his own excavating business.

We also have recently tracked the success of graduates from the 2018-2019 year. Of 49 who completed the program then, 31 are still sober after one year. That represents a 63 percent success rate, up from our last calculation.

Read about the success of graduate Kim Cooper, now program coordinator on the women’s campus, on page 5. Like 63 percent of her fellow graduates, she has celebrated that one-year sobriety anniversary and feels her life has changed, noting she has replaced “old ways of thinking with new positive thoughts and actions.”

I cited Isaiah 43:2 at the recent graduation ceremony: “When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, the flames will not set you ablaze.”

Our graduates have been through the fire. 1 Peter 5:10: “After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace…will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.”

We thank God for his grace this year, allowing Lifeline to continue to restore lives and transform our community.

Ashley Miller, Executive Director

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A BANNER YEAR Record community support keeps Lifeline working miracles Despite the effects of a pandemic in 2020, Lifeline is alive and well!

In fact, because of the generosity of our community – the individuals, churches, organizations and businesses that support us (pages 16-18) – we have had a banner year!

Executive director Ashley Miller, who had been in her leadership role just two months when the pandemic changed our lives in March, said the response has been overwhelming.

“With people out of work and churches and businesses shut down for weeks,” she said, “we were more than a little concerned, but God has truly provided!”

With help from an expanded community board, dedicated staff and volunteers, and a growing list of donors, Lifeline is thriving: •

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Our biggest fundraiser of the year, the annual banquet, Director Eric Miller presents certificate to Josh Clymer, switched to a virtual format to one of 53 recent graduates. comply with health and safety recommendations. The video, posted online Sept. 14, brought in In addition to successful fundraising, Lifeline more than $94,000 from has changed lives this year, fulfilling our mission 71 donors, including seven churches, to provide Christ-centered recovery from life13 businesses and 51 individuals. Noting the controlling addictions. Our staff and volunteers banquet traditionally raised $60,000 to $70,000 continued classes, sometimes virtually, so our in previous years, Ashley said, “Who could have program did not miss a beat in 2020. On Oct. 17, 53 guessed this year would be our most people celebrated completion of the nine-month successful banquet ever?” program; and we have more than 50 enrolled now.

The annual golf tournament raised nearly “What a truly blessed year we have experienced,” $30,000 from 19 teams and 12 sponsors. Board Ashley said. “Even during this pandemic, we are member Todd Trimble spearheaded the event growing, so we can help others break the bonds Oct. 16 at Paxton Park Golf Course. To minimize of addiction.” health risks, we provided print copies of Lifeline client testimonials to each golfer; so each Read more about the banquet video and could get a glimpse of those they helped golf tournament fundraiser on pages 6-7. by participating.

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A HAPPY PLACE Annual banquet star’s past leads to ‘perfect job’ In just a small portion of the 20-minute virtual banquet, one smile shined so brightly that she took on star quality.

Our video star, women’s program coordinator Kim Cooper, has much to smile about. These days.

It wasn’t always that way.

Kim, a Reidland native, grew up four miles from her work site in what she calls a good Christian home.

(Her mother, Holly, and niece, Haylen, share special moments in the video, too.)

“I was a good kid from a good home,” she said, “but I was really naïve.”

She married at 17 and soon realized her husband was a regular user of methamphetamines and steroids. “I fought it for a while,” she said, “but one day, he said, ‘Why don’t you try it?’ and I did.”

They had a daughter, and Kim had a good job. But the drug use continued.

Twelve years after they wed, her husband committed suicide. She moved back home and, struggling with her loss, used more drugs than before. “I became just like him. I was using … probably more than he ever did,” she said.

She lost a good job and faced multiple arrests for possession and then trafficking in meth. She tried other rehab programs and failed.

Finally, she came to Lifeline and during the second of three phases, “a light bulb went off,” she said. “I decided to do it for real this time.”

The unique Christ-centered nine-month program offered specifics to change her life. She gave these examples: • “Through Celebrate Recovery, I really gained a lot of freedom by learning to forgive those who have hurt me and also by learning to take responsibility for the pain I have caused others.”

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“I also learned so much from ‘Renewing your Mind’ about changing the way I think and replacing old ways of thinking with new positive thoughts and actions.”

• “Through the parenting class, I learned how to be a better parent to my adult daughter, and how to let go of guilt from my past with her.”

A year after graduation, she was sober, a goal and statistic shared by 63 percent of the graduates. At that point, she had the opportunity to return to work at Lifeline. “When I was in the house, I thought this would be the perfect job – I just loved it so much,” she said. “Most of the time, people want to get as far away from rehab as they can, but I love it. It’s like extra accountability for me, for my sobriety. I have to be living what I’m teaching.”

Like Kim, most of Lifeline’s 13 employees are graduates of the program, a common practice in the industry.

According to Destination Hope, one of the nation’s leading Joint Commission accredited treatment centers, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: “Many of the very best counselors were once addicts and remain in recovery to this day. Recovering addicts can offer a degree of empathy and understanding not only unmatched in those who have never experienced addiction, but also important in the counselor-client relationship. After all, addiction counseling is primarily about trust and when a counselor and a client have a two-way trusting relationship, counseling becomes that much more effective.”

For Kim, her past and her present have converged to create a happy place.

“If not for Lifeline, I’d probably be in the penitentiary by now. Instead, I have the job I’ve always wanted.

I have a car and a home. I have my daughter and my parents back in my life. I’m trusted again. I’ve learned to be obedient to God, and I’m happy.”

Kim Cooper

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LABOR OF LOVE Couple donates virtual annual banquet video

Clients entering Lifeline have often just experienced some of life’s darkest days, so getting them to share their painful stories in front of a camera requires a special talent and heart.

Enter Josh and Samantha Marberry, of A & SG Film and Sound Makers.

“We are two best friends who love what we do very much,” Josh said.

And they love Lifeline.

Josh and Samantha interviewed many clients in the first phase of treatment “…just weeks off of tragedy, withdrawal and the freshness of this new commitment to sobriety.” They got to know them, as well as the volunteers whose love for the clients is “warm and full of light,” he said.

They spent days on both campuses, compiling 22 hours of video, and then many more days editing it into the 20-minute Lifeline virtual annual banquet. It was their gift to Lifeline.

Josh explains why they donated this massive labor of love: “Lifeline runs on donations. Without money, it simply could not operate. When facing a year like this one, their leadership made the call to adapt with a virtual banquet. We support the work they do there wholeheartedly. We knew that, for every person going through that program, it came down to this.”

Ashley Miller, executive director, said the video perfectly captured the organization’s mission and generated recordbreaking donations, as well as plenty of tears.

“We faced a real dilemma during the pandemic,” Ashley

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said, “when we could not host our traditional banquet. Josh and Samantha turned what we feared would be a terrible fundraising year into a major success with their generous spirit and amazing talent. We are forever grateful.”

Josh said they were moved by the bravery of their new friends at Lifeline. “It’s not easy to face down the giant they are facing,” Josh said, “but, on top of that, to already be professing their story to help others like themselves is victorious.”

SEE THE VIDEO AT LifelineRecoveryCenter.org/virtual-banquet

TO THE RESCUE Golfer on Lifeline board leads tournament Todd Trimble took what he knows best – golf – and put it to work for the community organization he loves best, Lifeline Recovery Center.

Todd Trimble, owner of The Golf Complex, joined Lifeline’s board in early 2020. Soon, the pandemic hit and put in jeopardy one of Lifeline’s biggest fundraisers, the annual golf tournament.

Todd, to the rescue.

After postponing for a few weeks and then finding reassurance in the health precautions offered by tournament partner Paxton Park Golf Course, the tournament proceeded.

Golfers were ready to go!

Nineteen teams from the area enjoyed the fall outing. “A golf tournament is the best way to bring the entire area together,” Todd said.

“Whether you are from Murray or Southern Illinois, golf is golf and golfers love to gather and share. In all my life, I’ve never met a stranger on the course.”

Todd’s committee added a couple of new twists to make the event meaningful to its participants: •

“We tried to get as much church participation as possible,” he said. “There is no doubt the church needs Lifeline for its members, and Lifeline definitely needs the support of the church. So we tried to field every team with an elder or pastor from a local church.”

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Since the pandemic limited personal contact among the Lifeline family and the golfers, the committee made laminated cards featuring testimonials from Lifeline graduates. They rotated them from team to team, so throughout the day, golfers read the stories of 40 graduates. “They saw how they were strengthened to overcome (addiction) through their faith,” Todd said.

“Soon, the pandemic hit and put in jeopardy one of Lifeline’s biggest fundraisers, the annual golf tournament.”

In his nearly 40 years as a golf professional, Todd found fundraising through this tournament a new challenge with great rewards. “My true passion is the gospel, so when I was asked to chair the fundraiser, it was an easy yes,” he said. “Our community needs Lifeline, and this tournament showed me how much our community is grateful for Lifeline.”

Executive director Ashley Miller with board members Jim Eickholz, M.D., and Todd Trimble, golf tourney chair.

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PART OF THE PLAN Financial strategy necessary to achieve mission “Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Richard Cushing

FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

The late Cardinal Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston from 1944 to 1970, was known as a fundraiser and builder of churches and schools. Your Lifeline board believes his famous quote applies to our work here as well.

As part of our planning, the board has adopted four strategic initiatives (see adjacent graphic) to achieve our mission. Over the next few issues, we will discuss each one in this space.

Today we focus on stability, specifically achieving long-term financial stability so Lifeline can better serve the community by addressing the growing need for addiction treatment services.

The center operates from two primary funding sources – about 25 percent from client fees and the remaining 75 percent from donations. Our strong donor support, along with services provided by volunteers, allows us to offer nine-month treatment for an affordable rate, just $1,800, from each client.

That means we rely heavily on annual fundraising. (pages 4-7).

Here’s where we are on that front: • Our expanded community board (members listed on back) is providing leadership for community fundraising.

• Community awareness is increasing through our compelling storytelling.

• Graduates are succeeding, proving our effectiveness.

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Donors are investing more than ever before, with more support during the first nine months of 2020 – pandemic notwithstanding – than the previous 12 months combined.

And here’s where we must go to grow: •

Update and enhance facilities on both campuses, so we have room to accept more clients. Currently, we have resources to accommodate just one in five applicants.

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Steve Powless

Chairman and CEO of CSI

• Maximize partnerships, with community organizations and volunteers, to keep costs low while we reach more clients.

• Diversify our revenue sources, looking perhaps to include insurance reimbursement.

• Create an endowment for a dependable revenue stream for capital and operating expenses.

As you can see on these pages, we are restoring lives and transforming communities. We invite you to help us build this ark by donating whatever volunteer time and/or money you can.

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES Our success in realizing our mission will be measured by the extent to which we achieve the following:

PROGRAM AWARENESS

STABILITY Achieving long-term financial stability, allowing Lifeline Recovery Center to better serve the community by addressing the growing need for addiction treatment services.

PARTNERSHIPS In future issues, we will discuss each of our strategic initiatives. To read the full strategic plan, please visit LifelineRecoveryCenter.org.

MEDICAL SPOTLIGHT

A HOLIDAY PLAN How to stay sober during the festive season From Thanksgiving through New Year’s, holiday festivities abound. Family dinners, Secret Santas, office parties and all the rest are meant to celebrate the glad tidings of the season, but the twinkling lights and bright tinsel cannot mask the stress for those dealing with addiction.

Lifeline medical consultant John W. Brazzell, M.D., describes the season well: “The holidays are packed with rituals and various events, during which the use of alcohol and drugs are commonly accepted,” he said.

Meanwhile, people struggling to stay sober may relapse if they don’t have a plan to deal with memories triggered by previous trauma or lost relationships, financial hardships or the hectic schedule of demands.

“Certainly, memories can be positive,” he said, “but some are reminders of lost loved ones, dysfunction or previous negative experiences.”

JOHN W. BRAZZELL, M.D.

Volunteer Medical Consultant at Lifeline

Medical director at Kentucky Care, Paducah

Focusing on the true joys of the season, including your faith and your circle of support, will help you put the other holiday demands or disappointments in perspective. And try making new sober memories by giving your time, talents or gifts to others – you will delight in the joy you give to them.

Rather than coping by using alcohol or drugs, Dr. Brazzell recommends the following tips to remain sober during the holidays:

Don’t use.

Ask for help.

Reach out to faith or

recovery community of supporters.

Meditate

frequently.

Develop an exit plan from activities with

potential exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Take your own festive

holiday non-alcoholic drink to gatherings.

Pray a lot, and stay

connected with your Higher Power.

Follow your 12-step

program faithfully during the holidays. (Lifeline

Recovery Center offers the 12-step Celebrate Recovery Program.)

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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

SOWING GOOD SEEDS Volunteers delight in seeing “light bulb go off”

John and Sarah Aitken repeat the same phrase frequently when talking about their time volunteering at Lifeline Recovery Center.

“It’s so much fun,” Sarah said, “when you see the light bulb go off, and the ladies understand God’s love for them.”

A few minutes later …

“It’s so much fun,” John said, “when you see the men experience God in such an intense way.”

Although they have a common reaction to the hour they spend each week as Lifeline volunteers, they came to Lifeline from different paths.

John and Sarah Aitken, Lifeline volunteers

JOHN AITKEN

He also incorporates the DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Compliance) assessment tool to help individuals understand the four basic personality patterns that drive behavior. “It helps them understand the (addiction) triggers.”

“I’ve not always been a pastor,” he tells the Lifeline clients, “and you won’t always be an addict.”

John wants the clients to understand that their recovery is just a first step. “We give them a vision,” he said, “of what their future can be like. Using a football analogy, sobriety is just the first down – it’s not a touchdown. They must have a greater purpose. We show them, for example, they can run a business, not just work for one.”

John, senior pastor of Faith Center, once was in the throes of addiction himself – a fact he proclaims unabashedly to his church and to the men at Lifeline.

As teacher of the first-phase class, “Gifts of the Father,” John teaches the philosophy that “God is the father, we’re the sons – and, therefore, brothers – and the church is our family.”

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STRONG SUPPORT Churches contribute regularly

John has volunteered at Lifeline more than 12 years, since realizing how some of his church members needed Lifeline.

“We had some members struggling with addiction and looked for a place to send them,” he said. “We discovered Lifeline provided real help for them, so we thought we needed to support them.”

SARAH AITKEN

Sarah, pastor at Faith Center, had long supported John’s work at Lifeline and their church’s support of the organization. “I always had a heart for it, but I didn’t feel called to go there myself (as a volunteer) until about two years ago,” she said.

Then she heard a testimony from a Lifeline graduate and current leader during one of the organization’s annual banquets. “My heart just melted,” Sarah said.

“While I personally haven’t struggled with addiction, I realized at that moment, ‘There, but for the grace of God, go I.’ I could have done the exact same thing.”

She and former Lifeline director Terrye Peeler cofacilitate a first-phase class, “Christian Living,” on the women’s campus. “It’s such a tremendous privilege to go out and encourage the ladies,” Sarah said.

“They are hungry for God. They’re like a desert when the Living Water hits it.”

Each time she starts a new class of about 10 women, she thinks about the center’s high success rate – 63 percent of graduates maintain sobriety after a year. However, she realizes that means maybe four in that class may not make it through the program – at least, not this time.

“Many times, they will come back. That’s the great thing about Lifeline – they give people second chances, with boundaries, of course.”

She points to the sign hanging in her office: “When God gives you a second chance, it’s never second rate.”

She smiles with the glowing excitement of seeing success after those first or even second chances.

And she repeats, “It’s just so much fun!”

Faith Center is one of 30 churches donating to Lifeline.

Faith Center is one of about 30 churches and ministries that donate regularly to Lifeline Recovery Center, contributing about 15 percent of all total gifts.

Executive director Ashley Miller said support from the faith community is valuable in more ways than one. “It is helpful to know we can count on regular giving from our faith partners,” she said, “but we also appreciate their support through prayers and visits.”

Pastor John Aitken said Faith Center donates the first 10 percent of all church member contributions to community organizations, including Lifeline.

“Some churches give a flat fee or take a special offering,” he said, “but we just take it off the top.

When our giving goes up, our gifts to Lifeline go up.”

Faith Center and other churches also take food, arrange social gatherings and simply offer “practical encouragement” to Lifeline, John said.

It’s part of what he calls the church’s need to sow good seeds of faith in the community. “We couldn’t ask to reap the rewards (from Lifeline), if we didn’t sow into it. It’s all about sowing and reaping.”

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STAFF SPOTLIGHT

PART OF THE FAMILY Employee sees lives being changed

When TaMara Lawson hears a phone conversation with a co-worker, it often ends with, “Love you, bye!”

While that closing is usually reserved for family conversations, Lawson said it feels appropriate in her new workplace at Lifeline Recovery Center, where she’s been responsible for financial and other administrative duties since January.

“It feels like a family here,” she said. “It makes it easy to come to work.”

TaMara is one of only two of Lifeline’s 13 employees who did not go through the program or suffer from addiction.

A Ballard County native, she has worked in other area offices, including USEC’s human resources office. She didn’t know much about Lifeline, until a friend from her church, World Harvest Church of Paducah, told her about a job opening.

“I thought it was a halfway house for people from jail,” she said. “I got here and found out how much fruit is being produced here for the Kingdom.”

“It’s very rewarding to see how the community supports Lifeline and rightfully so.”

One of TaMara’s duties is tracking the many donations that support the center. “It’s very rewarding to see how much the community supports Lifeline and rightfully so,” she said.

Community support to help their clients achieve their goals makes Lifeline a very rewarding workplace, TaMara said. “People come here because of drugs, but they stick around because of Christ.”

Like her, she said many in the community don’t know much about Lifeline, specifically: “We have to turn away so many people.”

Four out of five applicants are denied because of limited space and resources, so Lifeline’s board and leadership are working to generate more community support to help more people. Lives are really changed here.”

One year after they complete the ninemonth program, 63 percent of graduates are still sober.

TaMara Lawson, Lifeline employee

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DREAMS RESTORED

GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT

Graduate finds new life as business owner

Nearly half a lifetime ago, Matt Morehead thought his future was all set.

As a student at Marshall County High School, he was on track to be a rodeo star.

He won the state title in bull riding and competed at the National High School Rodeo Association, earning more than one college scholarship.

Literally, atop that bull, he was riding high.

Until the bull stepped on him.

His injuries - broken hands and ribs, collapsed lungs - healed soon enough; but the damage to his dreams had just begun.

“The doctor gave me pain pills,” he said, “and that led to a 12-year battle in and out of addiction.”

Matt, now 33, said the pills helped at first with the physical pain and then with the stress resulting from disappointment and failed dreams. “I needed reassurance and approval,” he said. “When things went south, I turned to drugs.”

Matt Morehead, Lifeline graduate

By 21, he was in full addiction; by 25, he was a heroin IV user. At 27, he faced his first criminal charges, landing in jail eight months for credit card fraud to afford his habit. Various charges followed over the next several years, as well as attempts at rehab.

He tried the 12-step AA program, outpatient rehab,

“Lifeline got me to the point where I can enjoy my life. Staying sober is like a day job - you’ve got to put in the work.”

a 28-day residential program – all court-ordered.

Finally, in August 2019, while in jail again, he heard about Lifeline.

“Lifeline was different,” he said. “I didn’t know anything about it, but I quickly realized that God was at work here, and people really cared for me.”

The three-phased nine-month program, based in Christ, gave him the time and support he needed to heal.

“Lifeline got me to the point where I can enjoy my life,” he said. “Staying sober is like a day job – you’ve got to put in the work. God has just been blessing me, giving me what I need, not necessarily what I think I want. I’ve learned to quit asking Him for things and just started thanking Him for my sobriety.”

A year since he first heard of Lifeline, Matt is now a sober graduate who still volunteers at the center. He also works at Jim Smith Contracting and is starting his own business – United Excavating – on the side.

“My family is restored,” he said, “and I have peace and a joy for life.”

And a new future.

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DONOR SPOTLIGHT

PARENTS’ LOVE Donors credit Lifeline with saving their son

As a parent and grandparent, Cindy Hall understands when she hears her friends say they’d give anything to restore their families suffering from addiction. Because she has.

As hard as it was, Cindy said she would not change anything about her family’s struggle. “My son wouldn’t be the man he is today without that experience,” she said.

Cindy and husband Chuck, former residents of Gilbertsville now living in Florida for his job, are regular givers to Lifeline because of its role in restoring their own family.

Because of their gratitude, Cindy and Chuck give their Christian tithe – 10 percent of their income – to charities who help people. “Instead of tithing to one church because we move around a lot, we give our tithes to organizations that do God’s work. And that’s what Lifeline does.”

“We watched a miracle right before our eyes,” she said.

Their son, now 35, has been sober five years since graduating from Lifeline. Like so many others, he had been through several rehab programs unsuccessfully before going to Lifeline as a last resort.

“He went only because he had to,” she said. “He was about to lose his family, about to lose everything.

And we were about to lose them, too. We just couldn’t take the turmoil any longer, and we were ready to cut off any and all communication.”

Two weeks into the program, their son had to flag them down at their first visitation. “I thought he was going to die when he went in,” she said, “and in two weeks, I didn’t even recognize him. The change in him was unreal.”

The transformation was real – and lasting. Cindy thinks she knows why this rehab worked, when so many others didn’t: •

“It’s God-centered. They address every aspect of being a Godly man – how to be a man, a father…how to manage finances. They treat the whole person.”

• It’s affordable and long-term. “It costs less than most 30-day programs, yet it lasts for nine months.”

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The staff is made up of people who have walked the same journey to recovery. “They have been through what he was going through, so they could relate.”

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Chuck and Cindy Hall, Lifeline donors

MONTHLY GIVER Business makes Lifeline part of its regular ledger In that role, he has seen many presentations from men and women served by Lifeline.

Tim Harmon is a believer -certainly, a believer in God; but also, a believer in Lifeline.

“Addiction is a real issue,” he said. “Good people sometimes make bad decisions and find themselves in a position they didn’t mean to get in.”

“I’ve seen it work with multiple people through the years,” he said. “I’ve seen people’s lives transformed.”

Tim, a licensed hearing instrument specialist and owner of Purchase Ear Technology, is an elder and a former worship leader at Faith Center Paducah.

As he considered what organizations he should support financially, the Christ-based Lifeline was at the top of the list; so he sends a check at the first of every month.

Tim Harmon, donor

“That kind of program is going to be effective because it has the power of God behind it,” he said.

“The Lord laid it on my heart to sow into that, and I’ve watched firsthand for years how effective it is.”

WAYS TO GIVE TO LIFELINE Monthly

Through IRAs

Lifeline invites you to consider becoming a monthly donor to help you and Lifeline in budget planning.

Making a gift from your IRA, known as a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD), is a tax-free way to support Lifeline, even if you don’t itemize deductions on your tax return.

By making a monthly gift, you create a sustainable impact in the lives of more than 150 clients each year as they fight addiction. You will receive updates and a consolidated annual tax receipt.

Your support provides a predictable revenue stream to assist Lifeline in strategic decisions to grow in excellence as an organization. It’s a flexible and convenient way for you to help restore lives and transform your community.

If you’d like to become a monthly donor or learn more, reach us at: info@lifelinerecovery.com

This option is available to those 70.5 years or older with a traditional IRA, inherited IRA, inactive Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plan and inactive Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) IRAs. A QCD is a direct transfer of funds from your IRA custodian directly to a qualified charity, such as Lifeline, a 501 (c)(3).

We encourage you to speak with your financial advisor to see if this is appropriate for you in 2020 to help Lifeline clients find Christ-centered solutions to addiction.

or (270) 443-4743, or sign up at https://lifelinerecoverycenter.org/donate.

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THANK YOU TO OUR 2020 DONORS! JANUARY 1 - OCTOBER 19, 2020 The following donors made gifts to Lifeline Recovery Center in 2020 between January 1- October 19. Your investment is helping to change lives and transform communities. Thank you for your support as we remain passionately committed to serving those dealing with life-controlling addictions.

Gifts of $25,000 or more

Pam & Todd Trimble

Brandon Hall

A&K Construction

Western Kentucky Regional

Robert Hill

Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation Trust

Allan Whitaker

Jeff Holland Holland, Stivers & Associates, Inc.

Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust

Household of Faith

Steven and Nancy Powless

Independence Foundation, Inc.

United Way

Allen & Cynthia Jones William Jones

Gifts of $10,000—$24,999

Damon Judd

Anonymous

D. K. Masonry

Bruce and Doreen Hahn Kim and Keith Jones Small Business Administration Jeff & Heather Taylor, MD

LaCenter Christian Church

Lifeline Fee For 9-Month Treatment: $1,800

Gifts of $5,000—$9,999 Karen Banister Faith Center of Paducah Heartland Church Darrell & Shirley Orazine Oscar Baptist Church Boyd Lee and Sharon Pegram

Average Cost Of 30-Day Treatment: $14,000 - $27,000

(National Rehabs Directory)

Rosebower Baptist Church

Gifts of $2,500—$4,999 AAA Stowaway CSI John & Loree Eckstein James Eickholz The Faulkner Group, LLC First Baptist Church Grace Fellowship Church Joppa Missionary Baptist Church David & Linda Lichtenberg Glenn & Terrye Peeler Purchase Ear Technology Natalie & Anthony Rupard Debbie D. Smith

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Massac United Methodist Church Lone Oak First Baptist Women’s Ministry Louis & Sally Michelson Milner & Orr Jared Morgan Tony Murt Network for Good New Hope Missionary Baptist Church New Life Associates

Bill Schroeder John & Vivian Williams

Leeper Family Foundation

Gifts of $1,000—$2,499 Danny & Renee Allen Janice Bailey Bandana United Methodist Rev. Dr. Bernice Belt Sid Brantley, DMD Brookport Church of God James & Brenda Brown Community Foundation of West Kentucky Faith Baptist Church Dr. Jenny Franke Grace Baptist Church The Greenhouse of Paducah Cindy & Chuck Hall

Newton Creek Baptist Church Orthopaedic Institute Mark Owens Pryorsburg Baptist Church Shady Grove Baptist Signet Federal Credit Union Kathy Slaughter Jim Smith Contracting Luke Stinnett Twelve Oaks Baptist Church US Bank Bob Wagner William Walden Patrick Withrow, MD Dr. Jim and Vicki Woods Marianne Yontz

Gifts of $500—$999

Carl & Elaine Bivin

Kenneth Mattox

Amazing Grace Lutheran Church

Robin Bomar

Bradley & Brenda McElroy

Anchor of Hope

Ted Borodofsky

Pauline McKinney

Cindy Bailey

Martha Bradford

Charity McManus

Baptist Health System Services

George Bray

Landen Meeks

Casey Brantley, MD

Inge Burnett

Mary K. Miller

John Brazzell, MD

Christian Fellowship

Matthew Morehead

William Brigance, MD

Symsonia Baptist Church

Danny Mullen

Amy & Harry Brock

Tiffany Clouse

Bryant Law Center

Dee Dee & Mark Cohoon

New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church

CFSB

Community Life Church

Bethlehem Methodist Church

Concord United Methodist

James Conn

Kimberly Cooper

Larry & Carol Conway

Jennifer Coursey

Destiny Church of Paducah

Naomi Dawson

Kelly & Kenya Estes

Sharon Dershimer

Richard E. Fairhurst, Jr.

Lisa Driver

FNB Bank

Berta Duncan

John & Janet Foster

Gary & Kathy Eckelkamp

Free Spirit Motorcycle Ministry

Nancy Effinger

Gemini Marine

Julian & Theresa Elliott

H.T. Hackney Company

Faith Life Class

Italian Village Pizza

Faith Sunday Class

Jackson Purchase Electric

Michael Farmer

Bruce & Jeanna Kimbell

FBC Adult 9 SS Class

Steve Marberry

First Assembly of God

Ashley & Eric Miller

First Baptist of Clinton

Phyllis Mohler

Sylvia Fleischauer

New Covenant Fellowship

Elaine Fletcher

P&L Employee Charity Fund

Freedom Center

Craig Rothwell

Frontstream

Southland Baptist Temple

Barbara Gorsuch

Temps Plus

Jeffrey & Vicki Gough

Trace Creek Missionary Baptist Church

Ronald Grabowski

Jane Walker Williams Williams & Lentz K.K. Williams Lavonna & Lee Willingham Woodlawn Cumberland Presbyterian Church Wyatt Bell & Company Gifts of $1—$499 John & Ellen Adrian Tammy Beach Allison Berry Beulah Baptist Church

Tommy & Brenda Grooms Belinda Hamlet Keisha & Daniel Hopkins Sheryl B. Hosick Jan & James Hylko Suzanne Johnson Richard Kimbell Earl Kinchen Stephanie King George & Mariann Lankton Kathryn Lankton

Shea Nickell Snookie Oglesby Danny Orazine Judy Overstreet Karen Paxton Foster Pearson Peniques, LLC Rachelle Schonsecheck Dona Rains Robert & Nancy Reynolds Darrin B. Rudolph Andrew Shever Shiloh Baptist Church Robert Simpson Jerry Smith Matt Snow Brenda Spees William Spillman Phillip & Joni Sutton Pat Thompson Wanda Sue Thweatt Top Quality Bob & Kathy Toy R.B. Trigg Trinity Methodist Women’s Mission Fund Derek Wallace Stanley & Beverly Wallace Dwayne & Tonya Watson Thomas Webber Anita Williams Woodmen of the World Myra Wyatt Anna Yontz Cindy & Paul Ziegler

Mark & Patricia Link

FALL 2020 | 17

Business Donors

Jim Smith Contracting

Grace Baptist Church

AAA Stowaway

Temps Plus

Grace Fellowship Church

A&K Construction

Top Quality

Heartland Church

Baptist Health System Services

United Way

Household of Faith

Bryant Law Center

US Bank

Joppa Missionary Baptist Church

CFSB

Western Kentucky Regional

LaCenter Christian Church

Community Foundation of West Kentucky

Williams Williams & Lentz

Lone Oak First Baptist Women’s Ministry

CSI FNB Bank The Faulkner Group, LLC Frontstream Gemini Marine The Greenhouse of Paducah H.T. Hackney Company Holland, Stivers & Associates, Inc. Independence Foundation, Inc. Italian Village Pizza Jackson Purchase Electric D.K. Masonry Milner & Orr Network for Good New Life Associates Orthopaedic Institute Peniques, LLC P&L Employee Charity Fund Purchase Ear Technology Signet Federal Credit Union Small Business Administration

53 receive certificates at October graduation.

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Woodmen of the World Wyatt Bell & Company Church Donors Amazing Grace Lutheran Church Anchor of Hope Bandana United Methodist Bethlehem Methodist Church Beulah Baptist Church Brookport Church of God Christian Fellowship Community Life Church Concord United Methodist Destiny Church of Paducah Faith Baptist Church Faith Center of Paducah Faith Life Class Faith Sunday Class

Massac United Methodist Church New Covenant Fellowship New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church New Hope Missionary Baptist Church New Life Associates Newton Creek Baptist Church Oscar Baptist Church Pryorsburg Baptist Church Rosebower Baptist Church Shady Grove Baptist Shiloh Baptist Church Southland Baptist Temple Symsonia Baptist Church Trace Creek Missionary Baptist Church

FBC Adult 9 SS Class

Trinity Methodist Women’s Mission Fund

First Assembly of God

Twelve Oaks Baptist Church

First Baptist of Clinton

Woodlawn Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Free Spirit Motorcycle Ministry Freedom Center

Women graduates celebrate with a skit.

2019 AUDITED FINANCIAL REPORT LIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER REVENUE Donations and Grants

63%

$609,311

Client Fees

28%

$273,822

Fundraisers

8%

$74,305

Other (Misc and Investment Income) 0%

$4,787

Total Revenue

$962,225

Donations & Gifts Client Fees Fundraisers Other (Misc and Investment Income)

LIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER EXPENSES

Program Services

Program Services

79%

$642,223

Support Services

Support Services

13%

$126,284

Fundraising

Fundraising

8%

$67,846

Total

$836,353

LIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 REVENUE

UNRESTRICTED

TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED

TOTAL

Private Donations

$500,891

$108,420

$609,311

Client Fees

$273,822

$273,822

Fundraisers

$74,305

$74,305

Restatement of Net Assets

$6,000

$6,000

Other (Misc and Investment Income)

$4,787

$4,787

Total Revenue and Support

$859,805

Changes in Net Assets

$125,872

Net Assets Beginning of Year

$1,108,238

Net Assets End of Year

$1,234,110

$108,420

$968,225

FALL 2020 | 19

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PADUCAH, KY PERMIT NO. 1

Lifeline Recovery Center P.O. Box 7652 Paducah, KY 42002

Lifeline Recovery Center Board of Directors Steve Powless, Board Chair Ashley Miller, Executive Director Darrell Orazine, Co-Chair Shirley Orazine, Board Secretary Dr. Jeffrey Taylor, Treasurer Rev. Dr. Bernice Belt Dr. Jim Eickholz Robert L. Hill Keisha Hopkins Ken Hunt Todd Trimble LaVonna Willingham Mike Zimmerman

Graduate Matt Morehead is realizing a new dream of running his own business after recent treatment for addiction.

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