This month we are proud to highlight Jeff, he completed the Foundation (one year) program in June:
God is amazing and it shows through my testimony. My name is Jeff Madman, I am 23 years old, I am Native American, and I was born on a reservation in Browning, Montana, part of the Blackfeet nation. I had a pretty rough childhood, my parents had me at a very young age. Growing up, I did what I wanted and seeing what my parents did at a young age, made me curious and I would grow up doing the things I saw like fighting, smoking, drinking, doing pills, going to parties, having bad relationships with girls.
I never went to church growing up, but I always had people around me who had a Bible. I thought I would try the Bible, but I didn’t know how to read, so I left it alone. When I was 12 years old, my dad and mom split up and from there I moved back and forth between my parents’ homes. They both were doing drugs, so I would run off and do my own thing.
When I was out of high school, my mom asked me for help, I could not help her because I couldn’t even help myself. She said that some people were after her and her life was in danger, this was the last time I heard from her. Then 11 months later, I got a call at my work, it was my mom, she wanted me to come and see her. She was happy, talking about how God saved her life, she was sober, and God changed her. I went to see her; God saved her and used her to draw me closer to Him and He saved my life and changed me. My mom completed her program as a student and an intern and now God is helping me become an Intern.
He is renewing my life, He restored my relationship with my mom, He restored my mom’s life, and He restored my life. We were both lost in the dark and now are children of God, we are being the light in the dark, sharing the Gospel and my mom and I are full of the Holy Spirit, we are both still serving God and we are both sober. When I came into the ATC program, my mom was still in her program, and we got baptized together. I thank God for blessing me and my mom with that opportunity, God truly renewed and changed my life and those around me.