Find Hope

People pleaser

Sierra

Where I’d prayed for everyone else for so long... I had ignored the fact that I did need God.

I was shocked. They were genuine.

Andrea

"I wanted to be liked, so I wanted to do whatever was necessary to be liked, to be accepted, to be popular."

My party friends were becoming an issue

Maggie

I got involved with alcohol; in a life that I probably shouldn’t have been in; and relationships I shouldn’t have been, with men. Even in emotionally dependent friendships with my girlfriends.

Would do anything for approval.

Hannah

I didn’t know if God loved me. I was just so desperate. I started to try to find my identity in relationships with guys.

Learning that my Mormonism was not Christian broke my heart.

Amy C

"I never realized the God that they serve is not the biblical God. The reason I didn’t realize it is because, as a Mormon, I never read the word of God."

As wild as I could be.

Becky

"I was the girl on top of the bar with money being put on me, not remembering any of it the next morning."

They were stoned, but I was hearing a voice. God's voice.

Jones Beene

So I started playing the guitar, which came out of nowhere. I didn’t even know how to play the guitar at the time. I would spend every Friday and Saturday in my room at night just learning how to play and learning to sing wor...

What would my free love, hippie parents think?

Carol

He kept using Bible verses, and I would say, “I don’t believe the Bible. Why do you keep quoting the bible? Why can’t you quote another book?”

No one in the youth group would talk to me.

Chantz

Even in your most lonely moments God is there.