As for the video, I’m glad that Alan shared it you. I was only 20 years old and was a resident at Covenant House for about eight months. My first two months there I was left to myself only to walk closer and closer to death. It wasn’t until I met my mentor, Shawn Zanders, in October of 2012 that I began to see life through a new lens. A lens that I wouldn’t have seen through if my mentor would’ve answered God’s call of servitude differently. Even though, my speech was spoken at a Covenant House event, I stood there as a representative for the Champion Within Foundation. Which is a program that God placed on Shawn’s heart in 2005 that would retrain the foundation of a young man’s mentality and willpower to stop living subjected to crippling
