Find Hope

Will I ever have friends?

Zach

... when I would come into the group everyone would stop laughing, and leave. I’m not saying that for pity. It’s just the way it was.

I had sold my body, but God called me a virgin.

Kelley

"I was dancing on a stage in Miami…. that’s when the Lord showed up."

He loved me through the sexual abuse—then suddenly died.

Kim

One day he brought a friend with him to also have sex with me. I then realized he didn’t love me. He just thought he could use me and get sex from me.

It started with painkillers for my back but it didn't end there.

Sarah

"I was taking ecstasy, cocaine, pain killers or whatever it took just to feel numb."

Bipolar led to cursing people uncontrollably.

Matt C

It was just terrible. So I’m taking the medicine and I am correctly diagnosed but I’m still not really feeling any better. I’m not free from this bipolar.

My son with cerebral palsy had no hope until the missionary arrived.

Maxim

We tried everything possible to make his life normal. He studied in a very good school. He tried to study hard and behave very well. Nevertheless, society had a hard time accepting him.

Dad put me on his knee, then I never saw him again.

Gary

I recall walking home from football practice at Tyner Junior High School. I would walk behind the school because I didn't want other kids to see me walking home, or not having a ride home. They would get the car with their da...

Curled up in my closet to escape, but found purpose instead.

Kay

"The place that was a dark place to start with became my refuge."

Convinced I was worthless.

Beth

I thought that I had nothing to live for. I thought that I was the most worthless mother on the face of the earth. I was no good as a wife. As a mother. As a daughter. As a friend

No one in the youth group would talk to me.

Chantz

Even in your most lonely moments God is there.