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Adult & Teen Challenge of East Texas celebrated its success with addiction recovery through faith in Jesus Christ at a fundraiser gala Thursday night that saw hundreds of students, former

DEPORT — The dream of Ray and Pat Evers of the Texas Dream Center lives on today at Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas facilities at the East Texas Men’s Rehab Center in Deport and the East Texas Women’s Rehab Center in Clarksville. The couple began working with those with addictions more than 40 years ago by putting them in camper trailers and working with them one on one. They began the Dream Center in 2013, and transferred ownership of the nonprofit organization to the Adult an...

When evangelist Jeff Johnson and his wife, Connie, moved to Powderly about a year ago, he did not know what the Lord had in store for him when he visited Pastor Ray Evers at the Texas Dream Center. A 2013 graduate of Adult and Teen Challenge in Azle, Johnson and his wife served on staff there for a time until the Lord called him to be an evangelist. “Our calling is to go to places like this where God’s already at work, and there are already men and women in the furnace like I was at o...