About "You're Not Alone" Media

If you have a high bandwidth Internet connection and Windows Media Player installed on your computer, you can view the following streaming video on this site:

• John Vawter's sermon, "God Can Be Very Close … When Drugs Invade Your Family." This sermon precedes a conference for parents called "Our Kids and Drugs." To view the 28-minute sermon, click here.
• John and Susan Vawter's condensed conference "Our Kids and Drugs" for use by church leaders who want to bring this ministry to their church or parents who want to view the material in private. The video provides prescriptive solutions and insights to help Christian families who find drugs have invaded their families through their kids. To view the 38 minute video, click here. (Church leaders who want to review sermon notes, seminar notes, outlines and promotional materials posted on this site, click here. The materials are an appropriate way to wrap up a mini-series on addiction/recovery, to launch a new support group and recovery ministries, to provide an outreach even for non-Christian friends who have children, loved ones or family members who are abusing or to have your own half-day conference.)
• An appearance by John Vawter on Robert Schuller's "Hour of Power" television show. (To view the 10 minute interview, click here.)
• "Hope for Our Family" is an 18 minute video featuring three parents who talk about how they Regained Hope. Together they have a combined 50 years of their kids abusing drugs before they got clean. click here.

The genesis of this ministry was an article published in the "Forum Feature" of Leadership Journal in the summer of 1999. A photo feature article covering the first conference was distributed by Associated Press and appeared nationally in newspapers ranging from The Los Angeles Times to the Missoulian to the Las Vegas Review-Journal with headlines like these:

• "Preachers Often Held to Higher Parental Standard"
• "Ministers Struggle to Cope with Drug-Addicted Children"
• "To Save Their Own – Ministers, missionaries struggle to cope with drug-addicted children"

Since then, awareness of the ministry has been expanded with additional conferences in Portland, Orlando, St. Paul, MN, Santa Ana, CA, and Boston. (Transcripts of these conference talks are posted on this site; to view these transcripts, click here.) In addition to "You're Not Alone" conferences, John has been invited to speak at conferences that include the Moody Bible Pastors' Institute, the Robert Schuller Institute for Successful Church Leadership, Youth Specialties' National Pastors Convention, the National Canadian Pastors Conference, Hawaiian Island Ministries Conferences, the Careforce Recovery Ministries Conference in Melbourne, Australia, Teen Challenge and The International Care and Kindness Conference.