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Ministry launched by late evangelist transforming lives of gang members, addicts

By Billy Hallowell
Students and staff at the Brooklyn Adult & Teen Challenge pray outside the historic building housing the faith-based addiction recovery program at 416 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Friday April 4, 2025.
Students and staff at the Brooklyn Adult & Teen Challenge pray outside the historic building housing the faith-based addiction recovery program at 416 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Friday April 4, 2025. | The Christian Post/Leonardo Blair

Late Christian evangelist David Wilkerson's legacy lives on, as Teen Challenge, an organization that helps people cope with life-controlling issues, continues to transform lives and help break addictions.

The Christian Post's Leonardo Blair joins Billy Hallowell on the most recent edition of "The Inside Story" podcast to share the back story and explain how Wilkerson had an encounter that "would ultimately lead him, with the help of his younger brother, Don Wilkerson, to start a street ministry in 1958 targeting young drug addicts and gang members in New York City, which became Teen Challenge."

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To read CP's feature story on Teen Challenge, click here. 

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