Testimony — Jeff Baucom
Andy Knight
Jeff Baucom…
Went to Pope High school graduated in 2004
Grew up playing East Cobb travel baseball/didn’t make high school team freshman year
Addicted to Opiates & Marijuana from 15-26
Sober for almost 8 years
Became Christian around almost same time as my sobriety date
Started Agape Dec. 2017
Married April 11th 2019
Opened Women’s Program in Oct 2020
Currently serve roughly 40 men and women in early recovery
CACI – Certified Addiction Counselor Level I
Jeff grew up in East Cobb. He started playing baseball at a young age and went on to play East Cobb travel baseball. He played competitively until high school where he did not make the team freshman year. Because of this loss of identity among other factors he turned to drugs to help him cope and “fit in”. His addiction progressed through high school and into college eventually progressing to opiate addiction and heroine. He spent much of his time after high school spiraling deeper into his addiction and the “party” lifestyle which contributed to several drug and alcohol related arrest. Jeff came to a point in which he was extremely hopeless to the point of not desiring to live. But he had an encounter with God crying out to Him to help for help. He spent the next several years building a foundation with Jesus and healing from his life of addiction through the help of others. After several years of sobriety, he started Agape Recovery House to give back and serve those who needed a safe, sober, accountable, and honest environment in which they could begin or continue to work towards building a solid foundation for their recovery. Over time the program has grown to serve women as well as men and serves roughly forty person’s total. Jeff is now an addiction counselor and has a renewed hope and purpose of the goodness and redemptive work of God in his life and others. Jeff’s greatest pleasure in life is seeing people began to connect to God and come alive to the amazing life that He always had planned for them!