MercyMe Sober Living seeks to integrate the highly effective twelve-step principles and healthy life skills with a comprehensive education about the disease of addiction.   Our philosophy is that there are many tools and paths to recovery, and as such we accept residents on Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) directed by an outside professional. The result of this combination has a higher-than-average rate of recovery. 

Since his own recovery decades ago, James Fordham has always felt he owed a debt to other alcoholics and addicts. He never forgot the kind, patient men who helped him through his own recovery from alcoholism.

In 2011, James began to dream about starting a sober living recovery home for men. With no experience (and no money), he began the work of making this dream a reality. He started by asking people for donations. Soon, he found that people were also more than happy to donate household items that had outlived their usefulness. James began having yard sales as often as life (and his wife) would allow.

During this time James asked for additional help from friends in other professions to help make the dream a reality (accountants, real estate agents, etc.). In the winter of 2016, Low Country Hope House opened its doors.

In mid March, 2022, James resigned as the President of the Low Country Hope House to work with a doctor and other friends to establish a sober women’s home in Beaufort. Once they receive certification from South Carolina Alliance of Recovery Residences and National Alliance of Recovery of Recovery Residence we will offer help to those who are committed to recovery utilizing Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT).