James Coleman 

As a child my father would get drunk while out in the streets then come home and would beat my mother very violently. This went on for many years until my mother decided to leave my father. At the age of thirteen I found myself in Philadelphia were I got involved with gangs and stealing cars, and drinking? At the age of eighteen I went into the military and was sent to the front-line of combat in the Republic of Viet-Nam were I got shot with and AK-47 and got introduced to hard core drugs like opium, and heroin and this is where my drug addiction began. After returning from Viet-Nam I found it hard to cope with things. I was home for six months and decide to re-enlist to go to the Republic of Panama, South America. Here I began using cocaine by using needles  and caught Hepitis "C" After two years in Panama, I returned to the  U.S.A. were I began using heroin again. After being home for a few months, I got sentence to a military prison for stealing to support my heroin addiction. After getting out of the Army, I found myself back in Philadelphia began working a few jobs for a numbers of years, but my addiction continued to haunt me until I was arrested again, once for possession of weed, another for robbing a bank but, was acquitted for lack of identification. In 1988 I started using crack cocaine, were I became homeless and slept in abandon cars and houses, eating out of trash cans, until I was sent to Victory Outreach in 1991 in Washington, D.C. there I went into the Men's Home and graduated and my life has never been the same thanks to Pastror's Sonny's Vision to reach broken people like me, now I'm here in Tampa, Florida helping my Pastor continue that same Vision here in our city.