A Place of Refuge

The vision struck like a bolt of lighting. Tom Thompson had to pull off the highway to avoid an accident. His vision: an isolated rural farm where addicts could come and escape their lives, break free of addiction, and walk with God. They would learn to be sober and live out the scriptures in their daily lives. It was a vision from God—but merely a vision. Tom made it his life’s work to make the vision a reality. In 1999, he founded the Refuge Ministries to help addicts get clean and sober by id