I have spent a majority of my life in anger and bitterness towards god. More than half of my 20 years have been spent running from Him. I had been given a distorted view of Christianity. My early life was surrounded by divorce, lies, addiction, and alcoholism. All being done by what I understood to be Christians. Naturally, I was upset. I grew bitter towards God and Christianity. I decided that if God allows this to happen to my family and this is how they act, then I want nothing to do with Him. I ran away from Him and ran towards the hardest years of my life. I had been given such a sour taste of religion that I had nowhere to find the love that I was seeking. Until, my sophomore year in high school, I got convinced to visit youth group at Gladstone Christian Church. …show more content…
Joy. I was introduced to who Christ really was and how He loved us and cared for us. I continued going and got more and more involved with the church. The next year, at a summer camp, I had an experience that is hard to put into words. It's like I was struck down, my entire being had been stripped down in one night. And it was painful, it was uncomfortable, but it was necessary. I was exposed to my faults and could see where I needed to change. That night I devoted my life to becoming a servant of Christ. I found my purpose, and that is to reach out to the lost, to the people in the same place I was, and introduce them to who God really is. I didn't really know what that meant at the time, But I knew I had to do it. After high school I started at Clackamas Community