Elliott’s Story

My name is Elliott Cook. At the time of this writing, I’m 39 years old, and I’ve never been happier in my entire life. It hasn’t always been that way; for a long time, I was convinced that this life wasn’t for me, that I’d never find happiness. I grew up without my father around a lot, and a mother who struggled to make ends meet all by herself. She did her best, but life without a father created a void and pain that I was unaware of.

I made straight A’s all through school, until I got involved with drugs and the wrong crowd in high school. My life quickly spun out of control. I tried to find my way out by going into the military, but the army couldn’t change my ways or fix the pain a broken life had created. After two years in the service, I got kicked out because of drugs.

Failure after failure, trying to figure out life by myself, I ended up completely lost. I was arrested numerous times, and charged as a multiple felon. I became addicted to methamphetamines, and the lifestyle that came with it. I was using drugs every day, trying to hide from life, never taking responsibility for myself. I lost everything….my family, my hopes, dreams, and my mind. I had completely given up on life, and especially myself. At my lowest point, in total desperation, I decided to give the Faith Home one last shot. It was the greatest decision I could have ever made.

My life, my perspective, my identity, my thought life…. everything has been completely transformed by gaining a real relationship with Jesus Christ through the Faith Home. Since coming to the Faith Home, my mother began coming to church too, and her entire life has been changed. She’s been delivered from a lifestyle of drugs and depression, including a 50-plus-year addiction to cigarettes…..completely delivered! God continued to work on my family, and in 2019 my father came to the Faith Home and his life is now being transformed by the awesome power of God!

I now work for the ministry full-time as the Senior Pastor’s assistant, and I am married to a beautiful woman of God…all made possible through the relationship with Jesus that I gained by coming to the Faith Home. My life is better than I could ever have dreamed, and it keeps getting better and better every year!!!