Tuesdays · supper 6:15, meeting 7:00
Tuesday Stones
Our main meeting. Chili, beans and cornbread, a twenty-minute speaker, then small tables by how long you've been at it. Around eighty people, and nobody signs anything.
Knoxville · answered every hour
Someone who's been there will call you back.
Leave a first name and a number. A peer mentor, every one of them in recovery, calls within the hour. Any hour.
Thank you .
Whoever is on the line tonight will call from a 555-014 number. If you don't pick up, we'll text once and try again in an hour.
- Free. No insurance, no forms, no waiting list for a phone call.
- We don't call the police, your boss or your family.
- Every mentor has at least two years clean and sober.
- Calling about someone you love? That counts too.
Rather call right now? (555) 014-1212
Why twelve stones
Pick up a stone from the place you crossed over.
When Israel crossed the Jordan, Joshua told twelve men to carry a stone each out of the riverbed and stack them at Gilgal, so that when their children asked what the stones meant, somebody could tell the story.
That is most of what we do. Every Tuesday night in the basement of the old Magnolia Avenue firehouse, somebody stands up and tells what God and a few stubborn friends did with their worst years. Then we eat cornbread.
Two men who got sober in the same Knox County jail pod started Twelve Stones in 2009. We are a Christian ministry, and we work alongside AA, NA, Celebrate Recovery, doctors and medication-assisted treatment. We don't compete with any of them.
Four ways in
Where people start
None of these need an appointment or a referral. Most people start with a phone call and end up at Tuesday supper.
12 beds · nine months
Gilgal House
A sober house for men leaving treatment, detox or jail, three blocks from the firehouse.
Thursdays · 6:30 PM · women
Living Stones
Women only, with childcare in the next room. Krista has led it for six years.
Sundays · 5:00 PM
Family Circle
For parents, spouses and grown kids of someone who is using. You'll go home with Narcan.
After you press the button
What happens when you ask for a call
Nothing happens that you don't agree to. You can hang up at any point and call back next week.
Step 1: A mentor calls back
Usually inside the hour, from a 555-014 number. They'll say their first name and how long they've been sober.
Step 2: Coffee, if you want it
They can meet you somewhere public, like the Waffle House on Broadway, or keep it on the phone. Your choice.
Step 3: A plan that fits
Detox, a doctor, a meeting, a bed: we help sort out what comes first, and we'll drive you there.
Step 4: Tuesday supper
Your mentor saves you a seat and introduces you to three people. No more than three.
From Tuesday night
What the stones say
I called at 2:40 in the morning from a gas station on Chapman Highway. A man named Cody picked up. Four years later he's still picking up.
My son is still using. Family Circle taught me to stop paying his rent and start praying with my eyes open.
I got my daughter back in court on a Thursday and brought her to Living Stones that night. She ate all the cornbread.
2025, counted on the clipboard
Last year in plain numbers
We count people, not visits, and we only count what we wrote down.
January to December 2025
3,1181
calls answered on the peer line
- 1Logged by the mentor on shift. A third came between 11 PM and 5 AM.
- 229 finished the nine months. 23 told us they were still sober a year later.
- 3Paid for by the Knox County health department grant and our own families.
Figures read to the board in January 2026.
Help keep the line ringingReading this at 3 AM? Call anyway.
The line is answered every hour of every day by someone in recovery: (555) 014-1212. If someone isn't breathing, call 911 first.