Cole’s heart for outreach ministry was born through personal experience with addiction, recovery, redemption, and the life-changing power of faith.
For over fifteen years, Cole struggled with severe substance addiction that began socially and progressively led into opiate dependency and intravenous heroin use. Through the darkest seasons of addiction, he experienced the destruction, brokenness, dishonesty, and pain that substance abuse brings not only to individuals, but also to families and entire communities.
Although he was raised within a loving family deeply rooted in Christian faith, addiction led him down a difficult path that ultimately resulted in repeated failed recovery attempts, overdoses, and moments that forced him to confront the direction his life was heading.
After multiple attempts at rehabilitation, Cole entered recovery through The House of Prayer in Jamestown, North Carolina, where he experienced lasting transformation through faith, accountability, and personal healing. He has remained clean since and now carries a deep passion for helping others who are battling addiction, homelessness, crisis, and life transition.
His long-term vision is to one day help develop faith-based recovery and transitional support programs for individuals seeking freedom, restoration, and a new beginning.