Today we’d like to introduce you to Lance Ambrose Sr.
Lance, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I was the kind of kid everyone expected the best out of. Being the youngest of five, my parents were southerners. My Father’s a truck driver in the day, calling for a preacher of God after it was all said and done. My mother enlisted in the Army before I was born, and by the time I was born, she was teaching.
Mind you, I was the kid who knew no wrong.
Until 2000, the exact same year my Father passed of a massive heart attack praying on his knees.
My life took a turn for a prodigal child turned teen.
Wayward living I encountered.
With hopes of going to the United States Navy, met a demise after ay first run-in with the law landed me in the cold arms of the courtroom at 17 years old, facing 60 years maximum charge for a party to a crime of strong-arm robbery.
And I was guilty none of the crime, being at the wrong place with the wrong person, one wrong day, a child learns my lesson or did I.
I began to self meditate, trying to fill the emptiness of her anger and confusion with drugs and alcohol, women, pornography, everything to no avail.
Then, I remember the story growing up of the prodigal son that I had become but I wasn’t done yet, running the streets being angry, upset with everyone when they had done me no harm.
In the year 2003 is my second encounter what tragedy seeing the stranger die in front of me and not having the tools to save him besides my prayer.
Gradually, I started going back to where I knew I could find myself again, it was who I am not what I was doing, not what I had done.
2009, high, out of my mind, lost in the streets, how yet again found myself in that courtroom facing 80 years.
But God had another plan for me. I need help and I was screaming out for help and all the wrong places, if I started going back to church, started going back, started praying.
One day, God shows me and I asked Him to help me, rescue me, Lord. From me, I said and He did found out that day that I had become my worst enemy, it wasn’t the white man, I wasn’t the black man, it was the inside man who wanted to do what he wanted to do.
Today, that man is dead and the one who is alive is the one who knows the guy had shown him a vision that He has a son that could use his very stories, those things he’s seen, his testimony to save someone else, it was how I came to SOS, a distress signal in Morse code adopted by the Germans.
Today, that distress signal sent out every night, every day, a son, a child, a daughter is murdered, save our sons. I am the executive director and founder of this non-profit organization to Milwaukee, we decide it and we feel we got a negative instance and one is life can be used to create a positive outcome.
Beauty from ashes.
Creating a masterpiece but negative instances, but negative occurrences let me downs hurts pain.
And on my journey and that last roll down at prison cell in 2009, I decided to write a book, the name of the book, given the chance to change today, If Tomorrow Never Comes.
Today, I am free, no longer trapped behind pain, lies, misconceptions and it is my duty as a son to walk up to that son with the story with arms stretched out open, embracing with unconditional love to enable him the power of who He is, who God called him to be with the truth, we combat lies, with good, we fight evil…
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It has not been a smooth road, it has been ups and downs, mishaps, tragedies, the unexpected and I’ve been through with all of it, the journey called life. The unexpected things we encounter, the role has been difficult, given the nature of my history in the criminal justice system, it has been very hard to obtain a good job.
Even with having the skills, still it’s difficult, but I won’t give up.
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Saving Our Sons Mentoring Movement – what should we know?
I am most proud of saving our sons mentoring movement in organization that founded a year ago because it’s an organization where I am a living proof that something positive can come out of something negative and whether that negativity came from the area location where I stayed circumstances deemed against me of being as having being raised in the single home after my father passed, all of those statistics whether they were from me being African-American, I’ve overcome them and resilience.
What is your favorite childhood memory?
My favorite childhood memory was as a child being able to look from the audience, open to the pulpit and see my father sitting there looking at me smiling and him having a close relationship with God, to be able to listen to his voice, to open up his mouth, to be able to ask someone who he did not know or basically tell them that they had a sickness or something was ailing them at the moment, pray for them and then, be healed at that moment, that was something as a child that I never will forget.
Contact Info:
- Website: SavingOurSonsMentoringMovementInc
- Phone: 414550-3364
- Email: sosmovement17@gmail.com
Image Credit:
To God, Ambrose family
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