Christian sober living homes expand in rural Missouri largely without state oversight, funding

Christian sober living homes expand in rural Missouri largely without state oversight, funding

Dayton Austin, Jayson Jackson, Ronnie Baum, Jeffrey Dunbar and Clarence Stephenson gather in the living room of Big Boy Men's Ministry, a faith-based sober living house in Cabool on Oct. 28 (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent).Jerry Chiasson had been living under a bridge in Gainesville, fighting larceny charges and trying to get clean.  Biking from Springfield to Mountain Home, Arkansas, where he’d planned to stay with a friend, Chiasson, 52, was…