Find Hope

From poverty, near abortion and death, to dreams and miracles.

Ishmael

Her grandmother threw her out. She lived in a little 16‘x9’ shack by the roadside. I was born in that little shack.

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.

Shot up meth as a 16-year-old mother. Now I’m sober.

Ashley

I was sixteen when I got pregnant, at the end of my ninth grade year. I met Cory who ended up being my daughter’s father. I quit hanging out with all my friends on the cheer leading team, and started hanging out with his frie...

Baseball All-Star, girlfriend with benefits. Life seemed perfect.

Andrew

"She went to the doctor for a sports physical. While there she was asked if she was sexually active. She said; “Yes.” She panicked and froze. Stuff hit the fan."

Date-raped. Pregnant.

Annette

"He did cross the line, and I became a victim of what we now know as date rape. Thirty years ago that's really not what it was called. Since I did go into the bedroom with the guy, I blamed myself for many years..."

The sex addiction began at age 15.

Sue

I was so hungry for affirmation as a woman that there was a lot of short term relationships.

Chose life for the baby from my foster father.

Rose and Chris

When I was twelve the Lord woke me up one night and instructed me to pray for my future wife whom I had never met.

My first girlfriend to say no was an atheist.

Nick

There weren’t any boundaries with girls.

An abused boy must prove his sexual manhood.

Joe R.

I had gotten so far down I was eating out of a garbage can. A pastor came to the campsite where I was living and said, ‘Would you like to go to church today?’ I said, “Well, not particularly, not really.” When he said, “We're...

He was 60. I was 14.

Cheryl

"I started to understand that was the void I was trying to fill is that I didn’t have Him in my life."