Browse Testimonies

Stuart

I was a Jewish guy from the Bronx — a rebel, a heavy drinker, a drug dealer. I believed Jesus was not for the Jewish people. End of discussion. I wanted to connect with God but found only hypocrisy in the synagogue.

Gloria

I was a girl who had never been loved right — beaten by my mother, told I was plain, moved through 16 states with no roots, no friends, married at 16 to escape, left alone with six kids and no child support. I tried to kill myself twice before I was 15.

Samo

I was clubbing, using drugs, going with girls, and I didn't care. I believed in God but told my brother to leave me alone. Even after my first conversion I kept falling back into sin, pornography, and eventually cocaine and acid.

Remy

I was a Nigerian Muslim girl who never heard 'I love you' at home, felt rejected by my father and by men, tried to fill the hole with weed, alcohol, parties, and even a relationship with a woman — and still woke up crying, not knowing why.

Elizabeth

I was a church girl all my life, but I left the church as a teenager devastated by hurt. I had it made in the eyes of the world — full scholarship, everything — but I was so lost and so alone. That's always been my battle: feeling like there was no one for me.

Christine

I was a foster care kid who aged out of the system with a felony, no education, and a deep belief that I was a mistake. I fled my marriage, practiced Buddhism, and sought worth in all the wrong places. I was angry, broken, and terrified — and I didn't believe God existed.

Dan

I was a secular Israeli Jew studying math at university. I believed in God — unlike my atheist parents — but Jesus was a foreign god, something Gentiles believed in, connected in my mind to the persecution of Jewish people.

Yesupadas

I was an Untouchable boy treated worse than an animal, a committed communist who made a blood covenant to bring revolution to India. I was drinking, in gangs, cutting people, saw dead bodies — and I was happy doing it because I thought I was taking revenge.

John

I was the life of the party — a construction worker turned undercover cop with money, power, cars, and respect. I had everything this world said you need to have joy and peace. I was prideful, arrogant, and deep in sin — drugs, alcohol, cheating, lying.

Pamela

I grew up an atheist. My dad drilled it into us that church is for weak people and God is your money. I went to church for my husband but read the Bible like a book of morality. I was depressed, crying day and night, feeling empty and unloved, and I was contemplating suicide.

Laurinda

I went through a lot of childhood trauma and in that I deemed myself as being a bad person. I stayed away from church because I just assumed God only likes good people — I'm not a good person, so God wants nothing to do with me.

Earnie

I was a big football player, class officer, chasing girls and cars — exposed to alcohol and pornography since age nine, a problem child with a guilty conscience I didn't know what to do with.