On Super Bowl Sunday, he was selling snow cones in the ninety-degree heat on the corner a block from the Lucky Horseshoe in St. Charles Parish in Barbados. The pain in his eyes was visible as he peddled his wares to support a drug habit that consumed everything he earned.

His name is Curtis and he is 28 years old. He smoked pot and drank all of his life. He lives in the parish with a number of other addicts. Years of alcohol abuse and efforts to get free had failed. He could list the programs that he has tried when one of the men gave him the new “Spilled Blood” tract printed by Light For the Lost for Global Teen Challenge. It tells the story of one of the students from Capetown Teen Challenge whose blood, spilled by a gunman from an opposing gang was pouring from a wound which left a bullet millimeters from his heart. The tract contrasts the spilled blood of Jesus that is healing not only for physical wounds, but also for addiction. The broken heart of Jesus still heals addicts.