MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — When Betty Fain first arrived in Mobile, she said she had hit rock bottom, cut off from family, and was battling addiction.
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“I had burned all my bridges. I had nowhere to stay. I was sleeping in abandoned houses, but doing all of this from time to time, I was still going to church, though, and I remember my pastor told me, he said, ‘Baby, I don’t care if you come drunk. Just don’t stop coming to church,” said Fain.
That persistence eventually led to a breakthrough.
A church member brought Fain to the Sybil Smith Family Village, a transitional housing program run by the Dumas Wesley Community Center…