PASS IT ON –
Sept. 12, 2025 – John Bartholomew, recovery pastor at Splitlog Baptist Church in Goodman, Mo., and head pastor of In Christ Alone Church in Fairview, Missouri, is following Jesus’ example of helping heal others. He is the head of Come As You Are Christian Recovery at Splitlog, In the nine years it’s been operating, the ministry has grown from four people to 120 people being brought from darkness to light.
Bartholomew is able to help this many people because he himself knows what it’s like to be trapped in a life of addiction. He grew up in a family that struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. He took his first drink at four years old.“My dad would just give me beers while we were backroading,” Bartholomew said. “I started smoking marijuana when I was eight or nine years old. My dad passed away when I was thirteen. I was thirteen or fourteen years old when I’d done my first line of methamphetamine, and an hour later I was learning how to manufacture it.”
