Gary Cobb Ministries

My name is Nicholas Byrd, I go by Nick. I grew up in the small town of Thomaston, GA. I am the middle child, I have a younger sister & an older brother. I was raised in a split household. My Mom & Andy (Step-Dad) are the ones who mainly raised me. My Dad never came into my life until around the age of 3-4. Don’t get me wrong my childhood was not bad at all really. I just blamed my parents for growing up in two different environments. It was like a tug of war between parents. Fast forward a little bit. I was never around any drugs or alcohol until I reached middle school. And I just wanted to be accepted by my friends. So I started smoking weed, then alcohol came with going to parties. When I got to High School I was smoking pot every day and using ecstasy pills on the weekends, and then cocaine came along. I would really start to be rebellious and running back and forth between my Mom’s house and my Dad’s. So I started using and partying more and more. I ended up moving out of my Mom’s, getting a job with JM Clayton Co. where I would spend the next 15 years in addiction to cocaine, pain pills, drinking and whoring around. I was a fully functional drug addict building a life without God, and Him telling me I needed Him. I would finally meet my wife and she has always been there and tried to help me. God would go as far as giving us our baby girl, Oakleigh Rae Byrd to show me that I needed God in my life. Because I was not living right. Fast forward to Father’s Day 2024 – June 16th. I have been strung out on meth and drinking and doing suboxone. My wife and I were fussing and fighting. My father in law held me at gunpoint and after I drove off I was arrested on several felony charges along with misdemeanors and stayed the next few months in jail. While in jail my wife and I would get evicted and we would lose everything we had built. I would get out and go back to jail 3 more times. Nobody wanted anything to do with me. So I turned to God and started praying more. And God landed me here at this amazing place in Davisboro, Georgia called Mighty Man Ministry. Here the leadership and Mr. Gary have really helped God change my life & give me my sobriety back. This has been a spiritual renewal process. I will always be thankful for this transformation. It was the best thing to ever happen to me. I now have the choice to go back home to my family and be the best example I can be and lead my family to God. I have faith that God is with me every step of the way. Thank you guys for saving my life.

Nick Byrd 07-22-2025

Seth Chitty’s Testimony

I was raised in a very loving Christian home growing up. I always attended church on both sunday mornings and Sunday nights as well as on Wednesday nights where I attended children’s choir RA’s and the Awana program. I really had a great childhood growing up. I never really ever went without anything I needed and mostly that I wanted. My family owned a cow farm where I grew up working very hard having to learn how to take care of animals and building a great work ethic. I stayed very involved with church all the way through my high school years going to church functions as well as on multiple missions trips around the state of Georgia. I wasn’t ever allowed to go out to parties with my friends like I wanted to while I was growing up because my parents wouldn’t allow me to, which at the time I didn’t understand why and wouldn’t realize until many years later that my rebellion towards them and their decisions for my life was definitely the wrong way to go. They only wanted what was best for me but I couldn’t see that at the time. So as soon as I graduated from High School and moved into a house on our farm that I had fixed up, I completely turned away from God and how I was raised and went into full-blown party mode. I started drinking and actively smoking pot on a daily basis, those two things led into my heavy usage of ecstasy, cocaine, and different types of pain pills, while still drinking and smoking pot. After several years of me doing these drugs I had been arrested three or four times, lost everything that I had ever had or saved up in life, and had really ruined my relationship with my family. I would continue down this pathway of addictions for several years until finally going to my first rehab to try and get some help, but because I didn’t really want to change, I didn’t stay there for very long at all before I got kicked out for fighting.

Over the next eight or nine years I would start a very bad addiction to meth allowing it to completely destroy my life worse than the other drugs already had. As well as my two sons and their mothers lives as well. This whole time I was really missing the one thing that could have saved me from going through this very vicious cycle over and over again, and that was my relationship with Christ. I would finally catch more felony charges for receiving stolen property and a firearm charge and be led to Mighty Man Ministries where I came to avoid going to prison or so I thought. The Lord had different plans for me though. What I didn’t know was I had actually been living in a prison for the last 15 plus years and even though it didn’t seem like I was. The Lord helped me to realize that through Mighty Man’s process I was able to fully submit my life over to the Lord and to Christ Jesus and allow them to lead my life down the path that they wanted me to go.

Seth Chitty, July 2025