Founders Corner
Welcome to New Hope Initiative's Founder's Corner. This is where you have the chance to get to know New Hope's Founder and President, Chris Johnson. His life will be written as a blog as he reminisces on the pieces of his life that led him to where he is. So if there are questions that you want to see him answer on his blog, either create a GettingOut account and send them directly to him, or send an email to admin@realnewhope.org, and they will be forwarded to him as the manager of that account has time. Then stay tuned and your questions will be answered. This not only applies to his life story, but can also include questions about plans for New Hope (as long as they do not expose details that are in the middle of patent/copyright processes); questions about him as a person, his mind, his heart, etc...or questions about anything. His life is an open book.
Charge and My side of the story.
2nd Degree Murder. My life had taken a turn for the worst. My good friend Christina and I had been at my victim's house. We were all under the influence. He was drinking. She and I were on stimulants. He tried to pressure her into sleeping with him. She tried to get away from him, and he chased her. I got in the way. He didn't relent. I shot him multiple times. Over the course of some weeks, I will be writing my life's story on my blog. And in that, I will explain this in more detail.
My accomplishments before and during incarceration.
To be truthful, I did not accomplish anything worthwhile before I came to prison. I had been living a dark life up until I got arrested, and even into my incarceration before I gave my life to Christ on November 26th, 2016. I was always jumping from one thing to another, never sticking with anything long enough to master it or accomplish anything noteworthy applying that temporary fling of an interest. Accomplishments During Incarceration: New Hope has been on my heart since I was arrested. Over the last 8 years, through the process of creating the details the Initiative, I have managed to accomplish a lot. Not just with the details of New Hope itself, but in the lives of people that are around me, working with me, and those that I am working with to test out the fundamental concepts of the programs that New Hope consists of. For example, as I was working to create the P4 Rehab Project, I was working the program concept with those around me to test its effectiveness. And in doing so, there were lives changed. However, I don't feel totally comfortable going on about all the difference I have made in the lives of those around me, because it makes me feel prideful. And I give the credit to God, for He is ultimately responsible. I'm just trying to be a humble servant. I think that has been my biggest accomplishment since I've been incarcerated, just letting God use me.
My dreams and aspirations.
My biggest dream is to make sure that New Hope becomes everything it is supposed to become. I have always switched from one thing to another, never finishing anything. I have gone through horrible things in prison to make sure NHI succeeds. I am obviously working to impact the lives of all those that need the help it is built to impact. I am also working though to give back to those that I have taken from my entire life. My entire family have been victim to my evil. So, I am working to make their dreams become reality also. My mom especially. I have caused her so much pain throughout my life, but she never has given up on me, even when I would've given up on myself. So, I want so badly to succeed so that I can let my mom live out her biggest dreams for the rest of the time she has on this earth.
