Innerfaith Disciple House helps men who have hit rock bottom

Today he is the president and founder of Innerfaith Disciple House in Grangerland, however Chris Follett used to be on the fast track to nowhere.

At the age 11, I started smoking cigarettes. By 12 years old, I was drinking alcohol on a daily basis. By the age of 14, I was selling and smoking marijuana and began my life as a career criminal, Follett said. As you can imagine, it wasn't long before I saw jail. I was incarcerated the first time at 17 for possession of drugs.

By the age of 19, he was a resident at the Texas Department of Corrections.

For the next four years, Follett fell deeper and deeper into his alcohol addiction and his life was spiraling out of control, he said. It was when he hit rock bottom and tried to commit suicide that God used various family members to get his attention, he said. He made the choice to totally surrender his life to God, he added.

Innerfaith Disciple House is a residential Christian character-building and discipleship program for men 18 and older. The length of stay is a mandatory minimum of six months.

Innerfaith Disciple House is not a drug and alcohol treatment or rehab program, Follett said. Even though we reach out to men that struggle with drugs and alcohol, it is a discipleship program first and foremost. Men are taught how to walk faithfully with God in the same manner Jesus walked, through surrender, obedience and service, Follett said.

In addition to the three critical Christian character-building concepts of surrender, obedience and service, Innerfaith Disciple House presents biblical teaching that focuses its full attention on three life and death relationships that all men must come to terms with: mans relationship with God, his relationship with himself, and his relationship with others.

When a man has come to the end of himself, when he has hit rock bottom and his spirit is truly broken, whether through drugs alcohol, or lifes other hurts, habits, or hang-ups, he must be completely ready and willing to dedicate at least six months of his immediate future to bury his old, former self and become a new creation through Christ Jesus, Follett said.

The Old Man Graveyard, on the property at Innerfaith Disciple House, is the place where the graduates bury their old life of drugs and alcohol abuse for good, Follett said. To never dig that lifestyle up again and to remind them that they are a new creation in Christ Jesus, have been given a new life, no longer in bondage to drugs and alcohol.

Innerfaith Disciple House is a private non-profit ministry supported through the faithful donations, contributions, and tithes of others.

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Innerfaith Disciple House helps men who have hit rock bottom