Roberto Rojas Story
By Roberto RojasRags to Restoration
My name is Roberto Rojas. I grew up a preacher’s kid. By the time I was 17, I was using heroin and crack with my father. Two and a half years ago, I was homeless and addicted to drugs in the streets of Philadelphia, the West Kensington area. Today, I have a family and a house, not just a house, but a home completely restored in Jesus Christ. There is stability and tranquility, not just in my life, but in my family's life as well. My family consists of my wife Angie, my two daughters---Angeliz & Anaya, and my son Aden. Childhood---Trauma, Drugs, Death, and Jail I was born in Jersey City, NJ on September 1, 1986. My family and I were a Puerto Rican family who lacked money and lived in public housing projects. My childhood consisted of a Christian background, public schools, and my father's inability to stay off drugs for lengthy periods. We traveled back and forth from Jersey City to Philadelphia constantly visiting relatives. I eventually made Philadelphia my permanent residence in 2004. Trauma struck my household when my parents were diagnosed with HIV/Aids. This followed by me being witnessing my father brutally stabbing and slicing my mother. A few years later my mother died when bone cancer complicated her situation. By this time, I was already using heroin and crack cocaine, with my father, in the streets of Philly. Not long, after my drug addiction intensified, my father died, when his situation was complicated with cirrhosis of the liver. I began having issues with the law and received my first state penitentiary sentences of 2-4 years in a state correctional institution. A year after coming home, my sister died from a drug overdose. Not too long after this, I ended up in prison again. After coming home this time, I ended up homeless and addicted to drugs, worse than ever before. My life became a mess of traumatic experiences, prisons and drug addictions.
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Help For the Thirsty
These afflictions began to disappear the minute I entered Shall Never Thirst Ministries. I was just happy this place was willing to take me in right from the street with no money, identification, or any type of paperwork. I had no idea it would change my life forever. I knew God was in this place. The minute I decided to leave, I felt a supernatural presence of someone telling me to stay, so I did.
Here I was taught with guidance on how to submit and surrender my current destructive situation and lifestyle. Shall Never Thirst taught me that my situation was so intense that only spiritual help would save my life. I was taught the battle was now spiritual not physical. I learned who Jesus Christ was here, not just through literature, but through actions.
These afflictions began to disappear the minute I entered Shall Never Thirst Ministries. I was just happy this place was willing to take me in right from the street with no money, identification, or any type of paperwork. I had no idea it would change my life forever. I knew God was in this place. The minute I decided to leave, I felt a supernatural presence of someone telling me to stay, so I did.
Here I was taught with guidance on how to submit and surrender my current destructive situation and lifestyle. Shall Never Thirst taught me that my situation was so intense that only spiritual help would save my life. I was taught the battle was now spiritual not physical. I learned who Jesus Christ was here, not just through literature, but through actions.
They taught me how to serve others by taking the focus off myself. Eventually, I ended up in my deliverance from a thirteen-year long drug addiction. The Holy Spirit taught me how to improve my conscious contact with God, never stop giving and serving, and never to forget where I came from. He helped me have that spiritual awakening I so longed for. I am convinced that no type of doctor or therapy in the world could do for me what God has done for me in this place. I am eternally grateful.
Life & Family Restored
In the end, not only do I have my family back, Angie and I are now legally married. Aden, the new edition to our family, our first boy, is now one year of age. I now have the best-paying job I ever had in my life. I also passed my qualification exams to be a union carpenter. This stability has opened the door for my wife to have decent employment and begin school. We have a house. We have a car that was given to our family directly from Shall Never Thirst and working on a second car.
Priceless
The things that are priceless are the stability, peace, and love my family and I now have. Today, my memories and past life no longer haunt or affect me. How is it that today, I can use my past life and traumatic experiences to help others? No doctor or organization could do this. This can only be done by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.
I thank God for Shall Never Thirst Ministries, along with others like---CLPRM, Jesus Christ Block Parties, and of course my home church Urban Hope Philadelphia. God used them to introduce me to Jesus and bring to life him in me.
Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Life & Family Restored
In the end, not only do I have my family back, Angie and I are now legally married. Aden, the new edition to our family, our first boy, is now one year of age. I now have the best-paying job I ever had in my life. I also passed my qualification exams to be a union carpenter. This stability has opened the door for my wife to have decent employment and begin school. We have a house. We have a car that was given to our family directly from Shall Never Thirst and working on a second car.
Priceless
The things that are priceless are the stability, peace, and love my family and I now have. Today, my memories and past life no longer haunt or affect me. How is it that today, I can use my past life and traumatic experiences to help others? No doctor or organization could do this. This can only be done by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.
I thank God for Shall Never Thirst Ministries, along with others like---CLPRM, Jesus Christ Block Parties, and of course my home church Urban Hope Philadelphia. God used them to introduce me to Jesus and bring to life him in me.
Thank you, Lord Jesus.
To Contact Rob Rojas or Shall Never Thirst Ministries
robertorojas86@yahoo.com
https://www.shallneverthirstministries.com
Urban Hope-- 200 East Tioga St, Philadelphia Pa 19134 (215) 423-8047
robertorojas86@yahoo.com
https://www.shallneverthirstministries.com
Urban Hope-- 200 East Tioga St, Philadelphia Pa 19134 (215) 423-8047