"The most challenging time in my life was when my mother passed away from breast cancer. It was November 2002, and I was 17 years old. She was lying in bed, my sister and I were in the room with her, and she asked us to go borrow some baking soda from a neighbor to help with her indigestion. When we got back, she was gone. There was no breath of life in her anymore. My mother was the one who had always told me to keep going and to finish high school, but after she passed, there was no one to push me anymore. I wanted to give up. My stepfather had lost his mother at an early age too, so he helped me through it and told me to keep pursuing my dreams. I graduated from high school, but I still felt so lost inside. I knew I needed help, so I started going to the Union Mission. I didn't have an alcohol or drug problem, and I wasn't homeless, but I needed to find out who I really was. They had Bible studies there, Bible teaching every day, and they taught me to know Jesus. He gave me the love I needed then and he still does to this day. When I finished the nine-month program at the mission, they helped me find a place to live and a job. That's how I moved on.
"There's help out there for whatever you're going through, but you have to make yourself available to the people who are trying to help you. If they've been through something and you're going through it now, you have to be willing to open up and tell them about it. And then you have to listen to what they have to say."
"There's help out there for whatever you're going through, but you have to make yourself available to the people who are trying to help you. If they've been through something and you're going through it now, you have to be willing to open up and tell them about it. And then you have to listen to what they have to say."
Terrance is a professional wrestler with Velocity Championship Action. When he's in wrestling mode, he wears a top hat with a feather and goes by the name "Crazy Jack." The images below are from the VCA Wrestling website: