ADDICTION FACTS:
- Accidental drug overdose is the #1 cause of accidental deaths in the United States.
- From January 2015 to October 2024, there have been over 82,000 deaths related to drug overdose. NOTE: This is believed to be an under reported number.
- Approximately 80% of overdose victims are found alone.
- Addiction not only hurts the individual, but has a negative impact on the physical, financial, and mental health of family members and friends, and contributes to the destruction of communities.
- Addiction contributes to a larger prison population.
- Long term use of drugs will negatively effect a person's ability to learn and have good judgment and decision making. It effects memory and causes negative changes in behavior.
Sources:
- CASA. Cost of Addiction and Substance Use. 2016.
- CDC. National Health Statistics, 2015–October 2024. Published March 2025. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htmMarch . Retrieved April 11, 2025.
- Drug abuse.gov
- Graves and Associates LLC, June 2019.
If you or someone you love is struggling with drug addiction please call the ministry: (918) 568-6528.
Note: You do not have to be in the city of Tulsa or even in Oklahoma to seek our help!
We are here to help regardless of borders.
Our mission is to restore you and your family and friends to right standing.
“Do you not see the cry of a lost and dying humanity “
ABOUT Pastor Melvin and Melinda May
Pastor Melvin and Minister Melinda May are no strangers to drug addiction. Between the two of them, they have over 20 years experience helping others whom struggled with addiction, and speak and act from experience with overcoming addiction themselves.
Pastor Melvin struggled with crack cocaine addiction for over 20 years in the hardened streets of Houston Texas. He has gone through the process of restoration himself when he relocated to Austin, Texas and entered the Austin Restoration Ministries discipleship program . He was equipped with the tools and resources needed to turn his life around and became an effective servant of the Lord; minstering to others and devoting his life to helping others whom have succumbed to drug addiction.
Minister Melinda came from the streets of Miami, Florida where cocaine and heroin were easily accessible. One bad decision led to others, and as her addiction continued to take her into a downward spiral, Melinda turned to the streets; ultimately losing custody and valuable years with her two young sons. On a self-destructive path, and wishing death upon herself, she found redemption and restoration in the Austin Restoration Ministries discipleship program as her last and final hope of staying alive and regaining all that she had lost. Today, Melinda knows fully how much the Lord was protecting her even when she was at her worst.
As the Word of God tells us in Jeremiah 29:11: God knows the plans that He has for our lives. They are good and not of evil, to give us a future and a hope.
Today Melinda enjoys her restored life through servitude to the Lord by giving back to her community and helping others who battle with addiction. She does so while being married to a man that loves her for all she has been through. Both Melinda and Melvin are involved in the lives of the sons she once lost, and have been blessed with the joy of a child from their union.
Both Pastor Melvin and Minister Melinda share testimony of how they called out on the name of Jesus in desperation and their prayers were answered. After each went through the process of restoration, and living a truly free and clean life, they saw it fit to pay it forward by helping others in reaching what seemed to be once so unattainable to them:
“Total Restoration"!
Testimonies
Tommie and Cynthia Welch
Tommie and Cynthia have been married for 20 years with most of those years on the rough streets of Oklahoma City. They had lost everything and couldn’t find freedom from drug addiction. Both were searching for something better. When approached with the opportunity to come into the nine-month discipleship program at the Temple of Christ Restoration Ministry, neither hesitated.
They both accepted Jesus and their process of restoration has already bear fruit through the renewing of communications with their once estranged families.
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