Natalie

I grew up in church. Literally. If the doors were open, we were there. I was a Bible drill champion and always one of the first two people chosen when we picked teams for Bible baseball. I never really liked church though, and that made me not really like God. As a teenager, I wanted to distance myself as far as possible from my church upbringing. I was rebellious and doubtful and hard hearted. I knew the Bible was just a bunch of mythical stories that were exciting, yet totally crazy. Certainly, the God of the Bible was not to be trusted.

 

I was done with God.

 

And yet…He wasn’t done with me.

 

When I was 18 our church finally got a youth pastor. For some crazy reason Pastor Dave asked me if I would consider being a counselor at church camp. I wasn’t sure about going five days without cigarettes, but for some crazy reason I said yes.

 

There was nothing exceptional about that week, but something exceptional happened in my heart. God gave me new life in Christ. He replaced my doubts with faith and gave me a heart of flesh in place of my heart of stone.

 

When I came home, I had so many questions. I still do. And I keep searching God’s Word and studying theology. I believe that the Bible alone has all of the answers to the questions of our heart.

 

Something like 80% of the people of my generation who grew up in church, abondoned it as adults. In the church I grew up in, there were many children. By the time I was in high school the number had dwindled to a handful. As adults, I only know of two people my age who still attend church at all. This breaks my heart.

 

This website is our humble attempt to encourage those who think Christianity and God and church are useless and irrelevant; those who once professed a faith as children only to abandon it as adults. It is our prayer that God will find you where you are and show you that He is.