Addiction Recovery

After Overcoming Addiction Ron Williams is Now a Chaplain

VIDEO – HELLO HIGHER POWER –

Dec. 19, 2023 – “I’m just a hopeless dope addict that God turned into a dopeless hope addict. Amen,” said chaplain Williams to a group of long-term recovery patients at Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge. It’s message that connects with the men he serves because they know he’s been where they’ve been.

Williams left a troubled upbringing and was on his own at the age of 11. Over the next several years, he self-medicated with alcohol. Drugs, broken marriages, and family failures followed.

“I’ve been a part of so many drug-infested situations. Gun fights. Knife fights. Car accidents. I should be dead. I literally should be dead,” said Williams.

Williams entered treatment five or six times to appease others or when courted-ordered.

“My sobriety time only lasted in treatment. Many of those treatments, I relapsed as soon as I got out,” said Williams. 

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