'Life becomes wonderful when you give back': World record free-throw champion shoots to give people a second chance

ONE ALABAMA MAN IS SETTING WORLD RECORDS WITH HIS JUMP SHOT AND GIVING BACK WITH HIS HEART. WVTM 13 S BRYCE OSELEN SPOKE WITH HIM ON HOW HIS TALENTS HELP OTHERS GET A SECOND CHANCE. THE RECIDIVISM RATE RIGHT NOW, THE RATE AT WHICH MEN AND WOMEN ARE GOING BACK INTO PRISON IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH. RESEARCH SHOWS 82% OF INDIVIDUALS RELEASED FROM STATE PRISONS WERE REARRESTED AT LEAST ONCE FOLLOWING THEIR RELEASE. AND SO WE DO ALL THAT WE CAN WHEN THEY COME OUT TO SAY YES TO THEM, TO TO HELP THEM. MATT BOSTICK IS THE CHAPLAIN FOR THE BIRMINGHAM SQUADRON AND THE VICE PRESIDENT OF LIFEHOUSE UNIVERSITY, AN ORGANIZATION CREATED TO HELP MEN AND WOMEN BOUNCE BACK AFTER LIVING BEHIND BARS. I BELIEVE TO MUCH IS GIVEN. MUCH IS REQUIRED. BOSTICK ALSO HOLDS THE WORLD RECORD FOR MOST CONSECUTIVE FREE THROWS MADE, BUT SAYS SERVING HIS COMMUNITY IS WHAT MAKES HIM A CHAMPION. CREATE SPACE AND TIME FOR THEM AND LOVE ON THEM AND AND THEN YOU JUST GET REFILLED WITH JOY EVERY TIME. MAKING 21,000 FREE THROWS. I DID IT A MONTH AGO. MY ELBOW WAS STILL SORE. LIFEHOUSE UNIVERSITY HOUSES INDIVIDUALS FOR A YEAR AND PROVIDES THEM WITH JOBS UPON GRADUATION. I STRUGGLED FOR LIKE 25 YEARS WITH ADDICTION. I WAS ADDICTED TO METH AND THIS PLACE HAS BEEN A GODSEND AND HAS TRULY CHANGED MY LIFE. DANIEL GILLESPIE WORKS FOR THE UNIVERSITY AND SAYS HE HOPES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. SO NOW I’M ABLE TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE COMING INTO THE PROGRAM, JUST LIKE I WAS, AND BEING ABLE TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, TO GIVE BACK TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE SAME ADDICTION AND SAME PROBLEMS THAT I’VE HAD MY WHOLE LIFE. DOZENS WILL SOON GRADUATE FROM THE PROGRAM. BOSTICK SAYS GIVING BACK CAN BE AS EASY AS HITTING FREE THROWS. I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO TO LOOK AROUND YOU AND GIVE AND WHEN YOU DO THAT, I FIND THAT LIFE BECOMES WONDERFUL WHEN YOU CAN GIVE BACK. IN BIRMINGHAM, BRYCE JOSLIN WVTM 13. CENTRAL ALABAMA IS SUCH A GIVING COMMUNITY. REALLY IS. I MEAN, THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT SPEND SO MUCH TIME GIVING BACK. IT’S TRULY AMAZING.