I didn’t want to live anymore.

I was a slave to meth and heroin, and I needed a way to get my life back.

“I’d steal from them, and they would pray for me…”

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Transcript
I just came to the end of myself, and all the things that I was trying to use to fill the hole wasn’t working anymore, and it was killing me. My name is Brittany Shainer. I’m born and raised in Eugene, Oregon. Life was a little bit of a struggle for me growing up. As I became a teenager, my life kind of spiraled out of control. I ended up turning to drugs, men, toxic relationships. I ended up in abusive relationships at a young age. It led to me dropping out of high school and just a really bad path. I

ended up just meeting a really terrible group of people that just really led me down a deeper hole and the black hole of addiction. And I became addicted to meth and heroin,

and I began to shoot it up, and I just became a slave to it and a slave to the boyfriend I had. He pretty much was my God, and I just did anything he said and would do anything to get the drugs. I ended up on the streets of Eugene,

hopping from house to house just with nowhere to go. I had nothing but the shirt on my back.

it was just a really dark dark place i’d overdosed several times and woke up in the hospital and it got really bad so i remember just falling to my knees and crying out to god if there was one at this point i wasn’t sure and saying god if you are here please show me away show me what i can do to get my life back and to be happy because i was so unhappy that i just didn’t want to live anymore a couple days after that i walked into the thrift store off river road teen challenge thrift store um and i was pretty familiar with the place because i had roamed around the streets there and came in and out and i’d get stuff or i’d steal from there and they would pray for me which is this is just so cool and um little did i yeah little did i know they had been praying for me this whole time and then i come into the store and i’m like hey i need help i was a very

cold person my heart was so black like i had no empathy for anybody i would steal from you in a heartbeat i would lie to you cheat you um but as soon as i uh had got a relationship with jesus and allowed him to work in my life like when i really allowed that and opened my heart up to him he just just showed me how much he really loved me um and now that i have the relationship with god he’s just shown me who i really am and given me so much confidence and um i know that he’s he has it like he’s in control of all of it which gives me so much it just gives me so much peace life is better than i could have ever imagined now it’s so amazing and that’s the best part is that he just loves you no matter what.

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Local stories. Real hope in the Central Lane County community. These are the stories of people in the greater Eugene and Springfield, Oregon community who have experienced Jesus Christ change their lives. Their stories prove Christianity is more than religion and that it's possible to change your life. There is hope when you are hopeless, lack purpose or motivation, struggling with anxiety and depression, or just know there has to be more than life than this. We hope these stories show you that Jesus is alive, loving and willing to meet anyone who cries out to Him.

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