Steven and Rice

About me:

After being born into a Christian family, I (Steven) turned to the world for answers at the age of eighteen. Nine years later, I found myself addicted to a partying, dance club lifestyle and had major problems with cigarettes, alcohol, promiscuity, drugs, gambling, etc. I should’ve died several times, from high speed motorcycle accidents (no helmet) to back road drag racing and let’s not forget operating factory machinery on caffeine pills (357 mg). After two DUI arrests and bankruptcy, I hit rock bottom and ended up on medical leave from my job for emotional problems.

With nowhere to turn, I became the real life version of the prodigal son parable from the Bible and returned to live with my parents at the age of twenty-seven. In November of 1997, God met my need and miraculously restored me on the altar of a country, storefront church. He delivered me from my addictions instantly and I never had withdrawal symptoms.

After being an understudy to my pastor, I became radical. The Holy Spirit had super naturally exchanged my physical addictions with a hunger for lost souls. I began to go “out of the box” in an effort to turn over every rock in search of young people who were suffering like I had been previously.

Presently, I serve as a full-time missionary here in Guatemala alongside my beautiful Guatemalan wife for a non-profit organization that we founded four years ago. We are pioneers of a sort because we use a radical, unconventional approach to reach non-believers for the Kingdom of God. We use anything "extreme" to draw “at risk kids” into building friendships with us. This gives us the opportunity to slowly mentor them with Biblical principles.

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IHS International Missions is a faith based non-profit organization working in Guatemala and Central America to provide eternal hope to the under privileged and outcast people. One of the ways that this is accomplished is by the building of relationships and friendships with non-believers and mentoring them with simple Biblical truths.