Rural churches take on more active roles in Canadian Communities

Recovering addict Danny Mocibob loves race car driving and sometimes even smashes them up — all in the name of doing church work.

“I lived on the streets when things got really bad for me, so I know what can happen if you get caught up in addiction,” says the member of Brockville’s Wall St. United Church.

Now he’s part of the novel church outreach program called Racing Against Drugs, which he says is stopping rural kids from drinking, drugging and driving. His church sponsors cars at Brockville Ontario Speedway and in demolition derbies, and racers like Mocibob work with law enforcement to get the message out to young people and families at the events.

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