For Nick Wolfe, the memory of meeting his father as a child is one that still stings. He was only seven or eight years old when he saw him for the first—and last—time. What should have been a life-changing moment of connection instead brought a wound. “He looked at me and said, ‘That boy don’t look like me. He ain’t my son.’” Nick laughs about it now, but for years, the pain ran deep.
With no father figure to guide him, Nick turned to the streets, drugs, and alcohol. By the time he went to prison, his sons Bryce and Garrett were just 15 and 10. Nick’s choices had cost him everything that mattered most. “I’d finally reached the point where I had enough heartache and wanted something more,” he says. In desperation, he walked into a church and began the search for a different path.
That path led him to Men of Valor. Through the community of mentors, staff, and fellow brothers on the Ridge, Nick discovered what healthy relationships look like. “Men of Valor has made being a father very practical for me—first of all, to seek God, and then to rebuild relationships with my boys.”
The transformation has been nothing short of miraculous. Today, Nick enjoys a restored relationship with his sons. He knows the foundation he wants them to have: “My hope for my boys is that they would find Christ to be unshakable. When I let them down, or the world lets them down, they can turn to Him and know He won’t.”
Nick knows firsthand what it means to lose everything—but also what it means to be given it back. “Today I have a great relationship with my boys, and it is a miracle. Men of Valor is full of them.”
