Jordan and Charlcie's Story

Their first date was two weeks after she graduated from Teen Challenge. He'd already been out for a while. They prayed together, sought God's will, and within months knew they were supposed to get married.

In June 2019, Jordan and Charlcie Robinson exchanged vows and were publicly baptized together in front of friends and family.

Both of them are SVTC graduates. Both of them nearly died before they got there.

Charlcie: The Back of an Ambulance

Charlcie grew up just outside Scranton, Pennsylvania. Loving home. Bible-believing family. The kind of foundation that should have held.

But when she started making her own decisions as a teenager, church and family took a backseat to heroin.

The addiction had her in a vice grip. It determined where she went, who she saw, what she did. And more than once, it nearly killed her.

Her parents found her in the back of an ambulance after an overdose. Again. They watched paramedics fight to bring their youngest daughter back. Again. They did everything they could do, and then they left the rest to God.

God made a way. In May 2018, Charlcie enrolled in Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge.

Jordan: Seizures and Surrender

Jordan's story runs parallel but looks different on the surface. He grew up outside Fort Worth, Texas. Same Bible-believing household. Same loving family. Same teenage drift away from everything that mattered.

His drug of choice evolved into alcohol dependence. Not the kind that looks like too many beers on the weekend. The kind that lands you in the hospital with withdrawals and seizures. Multiple times.

His family found SVTC the same way Charlcie's did. Desperate. Praying. Hoping this would be the thing that finally worked.

It was.

The Intersection

After Charlcie graduated, she and Jordan connected. Two weeks later, their first date. In the months that followed, they prayed together and felt God doing something neither of them expected.

They got married. Got baptized together publicly. Started building a life that looked nothing like the wreckage they'd left behind.

By 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, God kept moving. They welcomed a daughter. Celebrated their first anniversary. And felt a nudge toward ministry.

Their church had been waiting over a year for someone to fill the youth pastor role. Jordan and Charlcie hadn't even been considered "regular attenders" during the virtual services. But God doesn't work on human timelines. The door swung open, and they walked through it.

What They Want Families to Know

"Trusting in God in the most difficult seasons is the hardest thing an individual can do," the Robinsons say. "Teen Challenge makes it possible by going through the most difficult seasons with you."

They don't sugarcoat it. The road was hard. The work was real. But so was the God who met them in their lowest moments and rebuilt everything addiction had destroyed.

"God will speak to you," they say. "Your ears must be tuned in to hear Him."

Today, Jordan and Charlcie serve together in ministry, raise their daughter, and live out a redemption story that started in the back of an ambulance and a hospital bed.

Some love stories begin with coffee shops and awkward small talk. Theirs began with two people who should have been dead, saved by the same God, walking out of the same program, and building something new together.

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