New Horizons Youth Ministries (parent organization of my reform school, Escuela Caribe) was founded in 1971 by Pastor Gordon Blossom, a former juvenile delinquent who’d served a stint at Michigan’s Floyd Starr Commonwealth Home.* By the time I arrived at Escuela Caribe in January 1990, Pastor Blossom was not active in the “ministry” except during Spiritual Emphasis Week in the Canada branch, Missanabie Woods Academy.* Then he would deliver…
