Timothy spent his high school summers volunteering on mission trips with a local church. But Timothy wasn’t a Christian—he was a professed atheist. “Although the youth center [that I had joined] was separate from the church, they often invited us to events and...
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17 Jose grew up in a large Catholic family. His parents’ marriage, rife with abuse and addiction, ended when Jose was young. Left to raise seven...
In 2009, Peter was at his lowest. Twenty-nine years old, deeply entrenched in his gang and desperately lonely after serving the first five years of a lengthy prison sentence, he cried out to God to bring a good woman into his life. “It’s not like I thought of God as a...
Paul grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in his city. “I was involved in gangs as a teenager and got in trouble in school, always fighting and hanging out with the wrong crowd, constantly getting suspended from school,” he wrote. One of his friends, who...
Just for Mentors: DECEMBER In this month’s Just for Mentors, Doug shares his experiences as he interacts with a student art piece titled The Magi’s Gifts. As you are reminded of the Magi in Matthew 2, consider our students. Many of them possess very...
