Become one of our first
1,000 Founding Builders.
Every great movement begins with people who choose to believe before the dream becomes reality.
One day, someone will walk through these doors — because you believed before they existed.
We're not asking for donations.
We're inviting you to build.
A place where hope has a home.
A place where recovery is measured in years — not days.
A place someone we love can finally come back to.
“For 28 years I have watched men and women fight for their lives in recovery. I've also watched many leave treatment full of hope — only to return to the same environment that pulled them back into addiction.”
“New Freedom Village is my answer to that problem.”
“Thank you for believing in this vision. Together, we're building a place where recovery has room to grow.”
Put your family's name on something that will still be here in fifty years.
Every space in the village will carry a name. Choose one that means something to you or your family — we'll place a small brass plaque there, and send you photos of the space in use, as it fills with life.
The Hope Bedroom
A safe room where someone begins again — their first door with their name on it.
The Gathering Kitchen
The heart of the village. Where residents cook, eat, and sit down together every day.
The Grace Garden
Beds, tools, and seeds — for the therapy of growing something you can watch grow back.
The Freedom Library
A quiet room of books, recovery literature, and light — where new futures get read into being.
The Second Chance Van
Gets residents to work, to appointments, to their kids — the wheels of getting your life back.
The Serenity Sanctuary
A quiet room with a mountain view — for meditation, reflection, and the mornings that make the rest possible.
The Path of Hope.
A walkway of engraved bricks leading to our community center. In honor of a loved one. In memory of someone lost to addiction. In celebration of your own recovery.
A permanent mark on the ground residents will cross every morning — for the rest of the life of this place.
Choose a gift that fits you.
Every tier goes to the same secure Square checkout. You enter the amount there. Every gift receives an emailed receipt.
Larger gifts, naming, and legacy.
For gifts of $1,000 and above, naming opportunities, and estate planning — we'd love to speak with you personally.
Sponsors a resident's first month of housing and care.
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Some people give a Saturday.
Volunteers become donors. Donors become ambassadors. Ambassadors bring the people who fund the next hundred beds. It is all connected.
Show up. Paint, garden, cook, build. Bring your family. The kind of day you'll tell stories about.
Contractors, counselors, teachers, mentors, mechanics — every trade helps build a village.
Share our mission with your church, your workplace, your family. Belief moves before money does.
Why I'm Building New Freedom Village
Twenty-eight years ago, someone welcomed me into recovery.
They didn't just tell me how to live differently — they showed me. They walked beside me, believed in me, and gave me the opportunity to rebuild my life one day at a time.
That experience changed everything.
Over the past 28 years, I have had the privilege of walking alongside thousands of men and women seeking recovery. I've watched lives transformed, families reunited, and people discover a life they never believed was possible.
But I've also watched something heartbreaking happen.
When I first got sober, if someone relapsed, we worried. We hoped. We waited for them to come back through the doors.
Today…
We hold our breath.
Because too often, the next call isn't from someone asking for help.
It's a call telling us they're gone.
Our children are dying.
Our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, neighbors, and friends are dying.
Addiction has become an epidemic that reaches into every community and every kind of family. Behind every statistic is a name, a face, and people who loved them.
I believe treatment is an important beginning. It can stabilize a person and give them the chance to start over.
But recovery is more than getting sober.
Recovery is learning how to live.
How to face disappointment without using.
How to build healthy relationships.
How to go to work.
How to pay bills.
How to become a parent again.
How to laugh again.
How to live life on life's terms.
At New Freedom Village, we won't try to build someone's life for them.
We'll build it with them.
“If I tell you how to do something, you'll forget. If I show you how to do it, you might remember. But if I allow you to do it yourself, you'll never forget.”
One of my greatest mentors shared that lesson, and it has stayed with me for decades.
That is the heart of New Freedom Village.
We will walk beside people — not in front of them and not behind them.
We'll work together.
We'll learn together.
We'll grow together.
Because confidence isn't something that can be handed to another person. It is built through experience, responsibility, and the quiet victories that happen one day at a time.
I don't believe people need someone to rescue them.
I believe they need a community that believes in them long enough for them to believe in themselves.
That's the village we're building.
Thank you for believing in it with me.
“If you've ever prayed for someone you love to find recovery… you're one of the reasons we're building New Freedom Village.”
You will be named — with the ones who believed first.
A wall inside the community center will carry the names of the first thousand people who believed. With your permission, yours will be one of them.
Faithful stewardship. And the truth about where we are.
Faithful stewardship, transparent reporting, and regular updates to every donor as we grow. You will hear from us — not just when we're asking.
New Freedom Village is a registered West Virginia nonprofit with a state certificate of business and federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt recognition. Our church home in downtown Clarksburg is purchased and owned. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Build a place where hope has a home.
One gift. One name. One brick. One Saturday. That is how a village is built.