Testimony

Ricardo Amorim

My name is Ricardo, I am 24 years old and my story is not very different from the stories of many other dependent youngsters. When I was just a little boy my family was normal apart from the fact that alcohol loomed large. I noticed arguments of my parents thu...

Rodrigo Amorim Sanches

Still a youngster I got involved in drugs. My friends, siblings and parents were addicted as well. At the beginning I only smoked and inhaled glue. As the time passed (I was 11) I started to consume alcohol and did not know how the drugs would affect me. With ...

Ed Carlos Masson

My name is Ed Carlos and I am 33 years old. Since my 16 year of age I am addicted to drugs. It began out of curiosity. When I was 18 I used cocaine and when I was 24 I used crack. These were the origins of my dependence. I’ve always been sporty and until my 22...

Adão Aparecido Gomes

I was six years old when I moved to São Martinho where my father had a bar. I was shy, fearful and ugly when someone challenged me saying: “When you are a man you’ll drink this glass of hard liquor.” This changed my life. I still felt like a kid but accepted t...

Suzane Behrend

Unbelievable- the 25th birthday of the CERVIN! I remember very well the beginnings when pastor Gumbel initiated this valuable work. I’ve never thought that one day I had to call upon it, too. This was a deceit because I requested for a place on the treatment ...

Wagner Pereira dos Santos

My parents fled to get married because they were cousins. They moved upcountry to Bahia where I was born. Our life was woebegone. From the 9th to the 57th year of his life my father was dependent to drugs and alcohol. In 1971 (I was two years old) my father wa...

Harley Douglas dos Santos

It is not easy to report about my past because it reminds me of the disgrace I caused my family. I got to know Jesus in the CERVIN. There I was a difficult patient. I’ve been there three times (two times I had to go because of bad behavior). I learned a lot fr...

Izaías Fernandes

In 1989 I started consuming drugs because of familiar and financial problems. I departed more and more from God and things got worse. I drank, smoked and sometimes used cocaine. This behaviour moved on until I lost the control (in terms of character and respon...

Joselaine R. Magalhães

I grew up in an evangelic family but when I was 7 years old I started drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes. I went to church but continued using those drugs. At the age of 11 I started smoking marihuana and inhaling glue and thinner. My life of drug dealin...

Adejanir Pacheco Waldomiro

My name is Adejanir but I am better known as Jane. At the age of ten I became addicted to alcohol and with 13 years I became addicted to marihuana as well. I was 16 when I left my mother’s house and moved to Congonhinhas where I got to know other types of dr...

Gilmar Carlos de Moraes

My name is Gilmar and this is my testemony. I was widowed with four kids (three boys and a girl) who where very young. I lost my footing and turned to alcohol and cigarets. My life broke down. My kids stayed with my mother but they ran away from home, got in...

Sebastião Nicácio

My name is Sebastião Nicácio and I have been addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Today I am free from both by the help of God and the CERVIN. In February 2005 I lost the main important things of my life: my family, my wife and my two kids. At the 12th of Apri...

Fabio Jorge Hauly

I lived without having a perspective in life. I thought I knew how to live and to handle the social and religious life but I drank and took drugs. The truth is that I was lost in the darkness, I was dirty, weak, confused without a direction in life and without...

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