Lifechangers

Do not send your kids here. It is inhumane. Trust me! My Son slept on a church bench. Could not talk to him. Rescued him next day. Trust me. Do not send your loved ones here

Ships you six men deep in minivans all across the southeast to "fundraise" selling Jesus trinkets in front if Walmarts.

Blatant, disrespectful marketing of Jesus.
The exact thing he flipped the temple tables for.

You will fundraise 13 hours straight Friday and Saturday bringing in usually 9 to 11 hundred dollars a day... but keep your breakfast under 3 dollars and your lunch under 6 dollars and be prepared for a stripsearch when you get back.

You will drive up to 8 hours back to the center through the night after fundraising for 13 hours.

Our driver fell asleep and we wrecked and I dislocated my shoulder

The guys at the NC center alone brought back an average of 40 thousand a week for "apostle mark".

Pastor Tommy dropped the emergency room bill in my lap before church service.

Just think about that.
Good and hard.

Tells you everything you need to know about lifechangers

Horrible people exploiting the weak and desperate for money. Never been treated worse.

I have read the reviews both good and bad about this program and as a former student I will say that this program has the potential to be great IF it was honestly done right. There are some who I believe who have the right intentions but it became more about the all mighty dollar than the all mighty Christ. I wonder if the program didn't begin with the intentions of help others overcome life issues but then the greed of money took over. There were some good services and some good lessons but the fundraising became obsessive. I mean you could end up going as far as 12 hours or more and spend the entire weekend sometimes more in front of Walmarts or other stores asking for donations. Here is how I feel about that... I completely understand that I wasn't being charged for staying there but I know for a fact that with all the crews out that they brought in upwards of 30 grand a week and that was a bad week. We ate terrible especially through the week. Here is the part that really got me though. I did get tired of things and decided to leave one evening which was grounds for dismissal. I get that but I never thought that so called Christian's would take you to a bus station, well in my case a Walmart, set you and your stuff out of the van and drive off. Who knows what could have happened to me.

I read a morning Passage every day and then I copy and send it out to about 200 people! Sometimes they respond sometimes they don't but if I can help just one person see the Light of the Lord that's enough for me! This organization based on these reviews, has helped more than one person and in my eyes that's good enough! So find something else to complain about folks! If you think it's a bad place and you're a Christian then you know God is watching and it's up to him to judge! Not Us!

If it hadn't been for Life Changers I wouldn't have my dad or a loving family that cares for me. I would be out living on the streets. These people are incredible. They are there and want to see you clean probably more than you do at first. I thank God everyday for this place and the amazing people here. This is not a cult! I pretty much lived the program under the circumstances of my parents. Doing things the way they do here really helps with discipline and management. My mom got her kids back after the state said she couldn't have them back. She pursued God and got her kids back and three more along with that. They are drug free and continue to have a healthy relationship with their family and others.

I just gave $200 to this ministry on-line ($100 Ministry Partner & $100 Christmas Donation) for the first time because I met a graduate (outside a Dollar Tree) who was sharing information about Life Changers and how it dramatically changed her life. (I volunteer weekly at Wheeler Mission in Indianapolis, where many homeless men have addictions.)

As an FYI, in addiction recovery ministries, they "seclude" the guests so they are not negatively impacted by outside influences, including friends and family who routinely have ENABLED (or contributed to) their addiction. They need to be cut off from external distractions so they can focus on taking responsibility for their own recovery. (Too many addicts are not willing to make the sacrifice and exercise self-control and thus they relapse despite the best efforts and well intentions of Lifechangers and other rehab facilities... which is why so many addicts fail.

How refreshing, this ministry is offering to sell T-shirts... you receive something in return for your contribution! Of course, the person volunteering their time to help addicts recover is "paying it forward" out of GRATITUDE for God rescuing them from addiction and giving them their life back.

See Samuel S's 6/25/20 review. I agree wholeheartedly!

I went to this facility was the worst mistake ever made was there from Monday until Sunday never got to sleep in a bed slept on couch and chairs and I am disabled, most of these reviews are true this is nothing but a cult hiding behind religion and a money racket, I was on parole and not supposed to leave the state went out on the first weekend to fund a raiser ask them where we were going there comment was we can't tell you next thing I know I'm in Alabama and the food was horrible, so I left the facility as soon as we got back, please don't send loved ones to this place.

I went to Life Changers in Beckley WV. I was there 8 days before escaping this cult. I was crammed into a small house with 15 women, 6 per bedroom. We had to get up at 5:00am and listen to praise and worship music, staring forward at the front door, hands raised. We were carted off in nasty run down vans to church daily to study the Bible and recite scripture for hours. Then to a filthy gym to exercise. Back to church for prayer. Fed nothing daily but bologna sandwiches and ramen noodles. Church services where they talked in tongues and laid hands on you to heal your addiction. Would n't give you psyche meds and wouldn't let you have your AA book. Had to go to the bathroom in pairs. Drove you 7 hours north on the weekends to stand out on the street and beg for money in the freezing cold and snow for 14 hours a day. Then made you share a bed in the hotel and go back out begging the next day. They would drive you home all night with no sleep just in time to go to church on Sunday. It was a traumatic nightmare. There was no chance of recovery there. The leader is Apostle Mark. Last time I checked the Bible there were 12 apostles and he wasn't one of them. Just an ex-con up trying on vulnerable people to fund his extravagant lifestyle.

Reading the reviews here makes me think of the story of the woman caught in adultry and Jesus comments, those of you without sin cast the first stone. I worship with life-changers in Beckley W Va, and my wife holds a bible study with the women once a week so I am very familiar with the organization in Beckley W VA. First yes there are hurdles in this program that need to be overcome BUT if it where not for the fact that this program is free to any client that needs help and can not afford $8,000 to$40,000 for one of the other alternatives or get no help at all. I have seen personally a friend's life saved by Life Changers. This persons partner did die from and overdose and this person I am sure would have died also had they not entered this program stayed the full year and with God's help is a New person now helping others out of addiction. So everyone who leaves the program wants to blame the organization and that is a first indication why they failed in the program because the first step to recovery in any addiction is to take personal responsibility To see especially the ladies worship the Lord knowing that it is the Lord only that delivered them from addiction is exciting and it is real. Show me a program dealing with disfunctional lifestyles that are problem free it just does not exist. Those that just couldn't cut the mustard in the program need to leave those that rough it out alone problems and all.

Two young guys outside of Walmart asked me to buy a shirt. I said no but I decided to look anyway. These guys have the deceptive mentality of a addiction. They should NOT be selling anything because they have NOT been DELIVERED. They were trying to coerce me into giving them my $10.00 from my change after buying a bracelet. NEVER SAID THANK YOU! I got in my car and was very disturbed and I said Lord that was NOT YOU! The Lord said go back-I explained that God likes a cheerful giver and what they were doing was wrong but most importantly they could not TESTIFY of how God had delivered them from drugs! People use God's name and he's NOWHERE IN IT! They are deceptive from the true fact that JESUS IS NOT INVOLVED IN THIS CULT!
Oh and the bracelet broke while trying to put it on in the car!

Definitely a profit driven cult practicing spiritual abuse. All the distinctive. Love-bomb on the way in... then things change. Estranged you/limit and control contact with familt/outside world. No TV no radio. Leaders claim to have gift of prophesy therefore to disobey them us to disobey God. Zero access to females unless you are emptying the cash out of their purses in front of a Walmart. To leave the compound is to go against Gods will and many that leave die. This is a recurring message. Leave equals die. Only higher-ups have access to the women and illicit/inappropriate relationships are status quo. Arranged relationships/marriages. Nobody in leadership has ever left nor do they have more than a year or two of sobriety. Human trafficking. Ride six deep trafficked all over the southeast to "fundraise"... each crew clears a couple grand each weekend. NC center brings in a haul of 30 to 40 thousand a week but guys are fed bologna sandwiches and must keep their breakfast under $3 on the road while fundraising. Unclear whether leadership is clean/sober. No light in their eyes. Danger. Danger. Beware Life Changers Cult.

It is places like this that gives real Christ led organizations a bad name. Hiding behind God and going against his word is dangerous grounds. My 85 year old mom on a fixed income gave the required or "donation" $500 to get her son some help like any mother would do. He was taken there Wednesday and unfortunately he leaves the next morning. I say he leaves they dropped him off at a McDonald's with no money, at which I myself gave $60 to go into his file, no nothing and they couldn't stay and help him cause the guy had to get back to prayer time. Really? Wonder if the prayers were Lord send me someone hungry I can feed or someone needs... well not gonna get into that. Needless to say Mom was devastated, heartbroken and crying. I called to at least see if she could get her money back being at the least she may owe them a few hours stay and a breakfast. I was shocked to hear "it's not our fault he left no refund". I could understand if we were talking about a month or longer but less than 24 hours. Is this the way to run a Christian organization? Can we break our self made policy to help someone? Very upset would not recommend this place to anyone. GREED is a bad disease and you will pay for it. There is one guy that works there I met while checking my brother in that was a sincere guy who had been through the program. I don't remember your name but my advice it to run. You have a big heart, too big to let this place kill your spirit.

This was the scariest most people 3 days of my entire life I thought I was walking into a christian-based rehab facility and all reality it is nothing but a cult are deceiving they are not they're lying they go out and Panhandle sell things that's not the way to spread God's word they make you fast if you don't make enough money they literally had me a piece of cornbread for breakfast they pretend to worship God in all reality that is just a cover-up No Lie my body hurts so bad I could feel the pain being terrorized as I would not participate in the activities they were doing it took me 4 hours of begging for them to take me er my blood pressure was 178/105 heart rate 48 they allow you know medicines at all they take your stuff and don't give it back to you this place is horrible I wish not even the devil's son go there that's how bad it is

This place can truly help to change the lives of individuals who want to change. Anybody can post a negative review and most who do will do it because they are bitter. You can't enter a recovery program and expect to dictate hoe things will go. They teach you to be responsible for what goes on in your life. They teach you good morals through discipleship teaching in the Word of God. Everyone who enters he program knows this from the start! People want to say it is a cult but tell me what cult allows you the free will to leave? It is truly based on your desire to change. The fundraising they do is to support the ministry and it teaches the participants to be a part of the welfare of others. Would you rather spend $40-60,000 in a program that really doesn't care about your future and doesn't teach you life skills as well? The participants in the program are actively involved in the fundraising to help keep the program free for the next guy. In this they learn what it is to support a community instead of destroying a community. Don't look at the people who quit but listen to the ones who stuck it out and graduated. Look at how their lives have changed and went from homeless to homeowners, from drug users and dealers to fathers, husbands, business owners, taxpayers, pastors, counselors, and teachers. Find out for yourselves.
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I read the reviews when my daughter was on the streets and was going into the program. I prayed and asked God for his will be done. Three weeks in, they took them to Louisiana the third worst broken out area for Covid-19, the weekend that TN governor shut down. I agree people are should work for their health and well being of a program if it's free. But, not during a pandemic. Their lives shouldn't be put in more danger than it was when they were on the streets doing drugs. Wonder what the government officials and judges who force people into these programs are getting. Someone needs to check this place out. Also there are other questionable practices. And the person who said that this is just a strict program. Where was the counseling, where is dealing with your past to make your future better. I thought when I read the reviews oh they are just drug addicts and didn't want to work for their sobriety. I was wrong, thankfully my daughter has gotten out and is on the road to recovery. NO THANKS TO THIS PROGRAM. I pray for the ones who have no one to listen to them.

I was looking for something that would be Christian based and recovery oriented. These folks are NOT what they claim to be.

I located and printed a 23 page document for these charlatans, based in Tennessee. They caused so much harm in less than two weeks that I am still recovering from the experience.

I was in a house... a nice house, granted... in a part of Vancouver, Washington, near the Camas area.

These people seem to prefer to ship in people that have travelled several hundred miles to keep them further separated from their families.

Each 'recruit' is able to write letters to family and friends. However, you are not to touch a computer for a year (per their document) and are not allowed a cell phone. Calls to family or friends may be allowed, but are scheduled, can be made only on an organization cell phone, and the 'privilege' to make said calls can be taken away for a minor infraction of the 'rules' and the receiving of a demerit.

I will write more later, but swear this to be the truth.

My name is Bryan, and these guys have the makings of a cult. They isolate and, I believe, brain wash the prospect. More on this later.

Bryan

I took my Son the one in TN. I took him there to get help for addiction BUT NO! They trained him to sell T Shirts... No help for his addiction on how to live a sober life. My Son left we called the so called Pastor 3 times to go pick up his belongings. THEY STOLE HIS THINGS... Then the so called Pastor confronted me and told me and my 74yr old Mother to shut up we were pissing him off! They gave all of his clothes away. How do you do that. They brainwash the men I know a you man that is there and him and his girlfriend are brainwashed.My Son had sense enough to go in a store and call me. We are able to get him home thanks to God and angels along the way. Now I am gonna have to pray harder to try to get my Son who don't believe in the Lord to trust him. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS MOMMA DON'T SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE!

In January 2015 my husband and I entered into the life changers out reach ministry. We were bound in addition to pharmaceutical drugs and methamphetamine. We had lost all hope for life and couldnt see any way out of our addiction. We didnt have a dime to our name and lifechangers took us both in without hesitation. It was there that we encountered the Love of God that forever changed our lives. We have been completely FREE from drugs(including the psych meds his dr. Told him he would always need) and nicotine for almost 4 years. Going through Lifechangers was not only the hardest thing we ever did but the best decision of our lives next to accepting Jesus Christ as our savior (which we did at Lifechangers!) they dont teach you to cope with or manage your addiction there they teach you to bury it forever. Our marriage is better than its ever been and its continuing to get better every day. Our family has been completely restored and Im forever grateful for this ministry. I highly recommend this ministry to anyone who is bound and truly wants to be set free. God bless Lifechangers