Brian

In a email to Mike Gilmartin, Brian wrote;

   "I'm sitting here at 5 in the morning getting ready to go to work and as I go through my thoughts, pray and get my head right for the day of course you are on my mind. Never a day goes by that I don't think about the things I learned and the way God changed my life up there in Brookings. Life has never been the same for me since I left...THANK GOD...as I face the struggles of everyday life I always go back in time to what you men and the Lord taught me while i was there. At this point I am learning to trust God with things I have no control over and that is a major thing for me. I can remember bro. Dustin writing the word trust down on my paper when I was full of tears at my cube and I just couldn't seem to grasp it all. I have made some mistakes since leaving but I've tried to learn from them and look at what the Lord was trying to teach me. I am part of a terrific church down here in Tennessee and am continuing to learn and grow in the Lord. I owe all of the men at Teen-Challenge so much. You cried with me comforted me, taught me, and loved me at a time in my life when I was unlovable. You taught me how to work, how to love, and how to walk with God. I am now free from the bondage that I arrived there with. My life has been blessed. So as you go through your day just know there's a man way down here in Tennessee who's life has been totally changed by you men and God up there in Brookings South Dakota."