After Alex’s fiancé passed away, his life spiraled out of control, and found himself incarcerated. He was released in the dead of winter and had nowhere to turn. Despite being employed in landscaping, there wasn’t much work to be had in the winter months, leaving him without work or a roof over his head. As a result, Alex came to the steps of Mel Trotter Ministries. “I didn’t know where to go, what to do. I had nowhere to go, coming out and having nothing”, he landed at the doors of Mel Trotter Ministries. “Now I got something,” Alex said.

When thinking back to the first time he walked into MTM, he said he felt scared and emotional, but from day one, he received everything he needed for a new start. “When I first came down here, it was during the wintertime, one of the ladies came up to me and gave me a hat and said ‘Here you go, please come in.’ And that is what I felt… open arms here,” Alex said.