Care Group Spotlight Grounded in Christ A New Life of Peace, Healing, and Joy Larry Stenger

After completing college, Larry spent seven years working as a bartender in his father’s restaurants and Atlanta’s popular Buckhead district. It was during this time that the first battle–alcoholism–slowly crept into his life.

Larry knew he was headed down a destructive path, so he entered the Marine Corps. But after four years of military discipline, he continued to drink heavily–until one experience changed him forever.

“I got my second DUI in 1989 and went to jail for the night,” Larry says. “It was a lightning bolt for me from God. I was young, and I didn’t want to continue what I was doing and end up there again. So I started going to AA. That night was the last time I had a drink.”

Larry diligently worked on his sobriety. Within a few years, he settled into a career in Information Technology and met and married his wife, Samantha.

But when they had their daughter one decade later, another challenge entered Larry’s life–lust and pornography. Shortly after, his job went fully remote–and the isolation only added to the problem.