Find Hope

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."

Prostituted myself for drugs.

Carrie

Carrie prostituted herself for drugs. As a registered nurse, educated and articulate, she never expected to go so low.

No one in the youth group would talk to me.

Chantz

Even in your most lonely moments God is there.

Cops were everywhere.

Ciana

They pulled us out of the car. Made us get out of the car. They searched us and put us in handcuffs.

Mom was very angry, very malicious.

Oscar

“You’re going to end up like your father, a bum on the street, a loser, an alcoholic.” As a kid, growing up hearing those things hurt me. I thought, “Man, after everything I do for you, this is how you love me.”

Coped with "fatboy" jokes by cracking them first.

Big Daddy Weave's Mike Weaver

The Lord was like; “Why don’t you let me tell you what I think about you?” 

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.

Five divorces by age thirty.

Jean

By the time I was thirty I had experienced five failed marriages. I felt like I could do nothing right;

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.

I allowed the abuse because I did not know God's love.

Angie

 "I said to myself, “Okay God if I die tonight, I’m going to die obeying you.”