#102 - Transforming Addicts Through Farm Life (Higgs, Quigley, and Dr. Shaw)

Men's Residential Addiction Programs, Freedom Farm and Renovatus, are listed on The Addiction Connection's website because they both offer the hope of the Gospel for the heart of addiction. Jim Quigley is a Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor with The Addiction Connection and serves on TAC's Board of Directors, all while leading as the Executive Director of Freedom Farm Ministries in Boone, North Carolina. Pete Higgs of Renovatus launched a residential program with a CSA as an integral part of the ministry in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Jim and Pete join Dr. Mark Shaw to discuss blessings and hard work of offering residential hope and help for men struggling with addictive issues. 10:14 What is the origin of the word Renovatus and how did the ministry start? 14:55 How did Renovatus get started farming? 15:30 The journey from a goal of restoration to transformation as the goal of ministering to men. 17:10 Jim speaks to the hard work of ministering biblically to men who are struggling with addictions. The pace is slow with few resources. 19:05 Jim's introduction to nouthetic counseling model and his journey in the biblical counseling movement 21:45 What is it like on the front lines of genuinely biblical addictions ministry and how is it shepherding souls? 23:25 At Renovatus, in Jefferson City, Tennessee, the vision is "Empowering people to be free from drug and alcohol addiction and restoring them to Christ-centered living." 25:05 Pete talks about how much he learned about himself while his own two sons were with Jim at Freedom Farm Ministries in Boone, North Carolina. Wondering about the farming ministry and what grows on the farm at Renovatus? The 2021 CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is currently taking orders. See what they have grown at this link https://www.renovatusrc.org/csa 35 mins... How the TAC website was used by God to connect people from a local church near the Renovatus ministry to Pete and how neither of them knew of each other before. 39 mins... 45 mins Pete talks about the glorious and beautiful testimony of a particular man who has been redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ from alcohol and has had a lot of relationships "renovated" and restored. 47 mins... Connecting the fellow workers in biblical addictions ministry to one another, Connecting the hope of the Gospel to the heart of addiction, Connecting addiction counseling to the local church, Connecting resources to those who need them... Connecting people who need residential and non-residential programs to those who offer them. Galatians 6:1-5 "Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. 4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, 5 for each one should carry their own load." (NIV)