Behind a locked gate on E Street in rural North Highlands, about a dozen young men pray to God to deliver them from addiction – part of the God Will Provide treatment regimen.
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Michael Kumansky, 20, at center, listens as one of the counselors leads Bible study as part of his substance-abuse rehabilitation at the God Will Provide center in North Highlands on March 24. Residents range in age from 18 to 29. They stay for six to nine months, often followed by a mission trip.
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Michael Kumansky, 20, takes his free time to read the Bible in his room as he continues drug rehabilitation at a God Will Provide center in North Highlands on July 17. The residents spend most of their day praying, studying the Bible and working to help fund the organization.
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Michael Kumansky, 20, arrived at the North Highlands house last spring. Kumansky’s drug abuse began when he was 14. He started with marijuana. At 19, he said, he was using heroin and meth.
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As part of the God Will Provide program, Russian and Ukrainian youths battling addiction plant trees at the facility in North Highlands on March 24. God Will Provide does not offer statistics on the long-term sobriety of its clients. In 2013, 300 people entered the program nationwide and about 150 completed it, said the Rev. Victor Nakhaychuk, a senior pastor at the Sacramento centers.
