It's a rough ride.

It's gonna be good days and

bad days,

but you do carry on with these

people that you have been

with.

When Mike signed out he put

"work,

" but Friday he put "life."

Me and him,

we were real tight.

We are only as sick as our

secrets and a lot of these men

bring a lot of secrets.

Living on the street is not

really living.

You're existing.

Mr. Shipp, the day we got him,

he had a rope holding his

pants up.

He was throwing up.

He had diarrhea.

Two days.

I lost my mother at a very

young age and everything went

downhill for me.

I hit people,

I'd get into fights.

We go buy beer,

sit in the lot, get drunk,

and go to sleep.

I kept on living in the past

till now.

We've been working hard to put

the pieces of his life back

together.

We are running out of time.

It's coming fast.

And here we are.

The big eye on the sign there.

I hope I can see better.

During the first ten weeks of

the program,

we drive them to appointments,

we pick them up from

appointments.

Everywhere they go,

they're in a bubble.

At the end it gets crazy

because now we're trying to

find a place for everybody to

live.

So those are places right

there?

Some of them were out of your

price range.

So.

Yeah.

A lot of them have a waiting

list of,

believe it or not even like

one to four years.

Yeah.

May 19th is the graduation.

And I know you'll be there.

I hope to be.

Nah, you'll be there,

you'll be there.

Our last stop is St. Andrews

which is in Cherry Hill.

Wow.

So Dambly House is our

transitional house that we've

had forever.

We have a house manager in

place that when the,

when the curfew is broken,

he sends me a text message and

it's just that simple.

Say I was going to spend time

by myself.

I want to go to the movies or

a baseball game or something

like that.

Eleven o'clock.

You have to be back by eleven.

Bill, when I first met him,

I can't tell you why that we

just connected.

I took him to the AA and at

the first meeting he raised

his hand which was really a

surprise.

Three times a week I go and

start sharing things.

About when you first started

drinking...

What we want to do is manage

the cravings.

Call their sponsor so the

person actually thinks through

the craving and remembers the

damage that the drug abuse or

the alcoholism caused.

I've been sober nine months

now.

I guess every month you stay

sober they give you one of

these.

I call it my good luck piece.

I wish you guys were staying

longer.

I wish I was too.

When we were up in the

sanctuary,

he said I would like to be

baptized.

And the pastor agreed and you

know we all went for his

baptism.

Hi.

(laughter)

You have publicly professed to

follow Jesus Christ as your

lord and savior,

is that right?

Yes.

Here is a man who was so full

of rage.

[applause].

And he just was beaming,

just beaming, just beautiful.

I feel like I had a little bit

in this transformation.

I left the old Bill in the

tank.

I am a new man now.

I joke with Sonya every once

and a while,

I feel so good now.

Graduation day, see-ya!

She says you ain't going

nowhere.

Because,

she knows that if I spend too

much time by myself.

I'm just going to go right

back.