When A CARPENTER’S PRAYER star Stephen Baldwin committed to sobriety, his family’s life changed for the better.
“My kids never lived a day in my house with me and I wasn’t sober,” Baldwin said in a video from PragerU on Instagram.
“That’s a blessing,” the interviewer added.
“It’s huge,” the actor emphasized. “So, I wasn’t perfect, you know. I raised them Christian. I raised them, you know, homeschooling. They grew up in their own adulthood.”
Baldwin and his wife Kennya Baldwin share adult daughters Alaia Baldwin and Hailey Bieber, who’s married to Justin Bieber.
While his daughters sometimes say they wish their homeschooling experience could’ve been different, Baldwin wouldn’t change a thing.
“It’s funny to have my kids come back to me now and be like, ‘Yeah, Dad, but the homeschooling, you know, maybe it could have been a little cooler. You know, maybe we could have a little more fun,” the actor shared. “I wouldn’t change a thing because all of that has led to successful relationships, successfully breaking generational curses and trusting that God’s going to work it all out.”
“Because again, I wouldn’t change a thing. My daughters are awesome, and they got great husbands, and the family is just growing from there. And listen, I don’t want to be cool, but that started with sobriety,” he emphasized.
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Baldwin got sober in 1989, the year before he married Kennya. He embraced Christianity in 2001 after 9/11.
“September 11th kind of freaked me out. I said, ‘Hey, what’s this all about? My wife’s a Jesus freak. Maybe it’s time I begin thinking about this faith thing,’ Pursued it, became born again, accepted the Lord, baptized in water,” he told Beliefnet previously.
Since then, he’s committed to using his platform for God’s glory, including starting a skateboarding ministry.
“My commitment to the Lord now is simple. I said, ‘Lord, give me the platform and, and the resources to tell, to tell stories about you like John Hughes,’” Baldwin expressed earlier this year.
In 2023, Baldwin shared on his personal Instagram page how grateful he is to be a child of God.
“True freedom…fear, focus, pride, happ[iness]…I’ve been blessed to experience most of them in Hollywood but now all that is left for me is Jesus as there is nothing in this world & I mean nothing – this world has to offer…that gives the same satisfaction as salvation,” he said.
“I’ve hung out with all of the most powerful people in Hollywood & they are dying violent spiritual deaths every day…me, I’m free from Hollywood[,] free from distraction. It’s just me & Jesus now. Wouldn’t have it any other way,” he added.
For Baldwin, the changes he made were about more than leaving behind old habits. They were about breaking generational patterns and trusting God with the outcome.
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