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Mikey Sackrider | “More than my name, my style, my job, my title, my hobbies, my bank account, or my receding hairline (sorry, that got a little personal)? When you peel back those layers, is there more to me?”

Karli Montgomery | “That’s what I see in the café—people walking together. Sitting beside each other. Sometimes asking hard questions. Sometimes just laughing over a muffin. But always, whether we realize it or not, Jesus is with us in the middle of it.”

Drake Holderman | Mac and Olivia are Midwesterners just like many of us. They fell in love with Jesus, heard his call to go, and now serve as church planters with PROEM Ministries in Poland, a country marked by post-Christian culture but not without gospel hope.

Carryn Osborn | “This is the middle. The struggle. The waiting. Even still, I know that He is faithful because He has been there countless times, and they never were in my time.”

Rachel Miller | “The icy water felt like a jolt of boldness that had entered my body. I wasn’t sure why it felt so significant at the time, but it seemed to me like a preparation for taking another big leap for God in my life.”

Flint Spencer | “I truly convinced myself that as long as I wanted to achieve great things for Jesus, then I couldn’t possibly be doing anything wrong, could I?”

Amy Storms | “Do you want a deeper faith? Do you want to live for what lasts and experience completeness in Jesus? Then be nourished by Scripture and prayer and koinonia.”

Michelle Zuniga | “I wrote one letter, to Christ’s Church of Oronogo, my adopted church home, to ask if they would consider funding this crazy idea.”

Nathan Schultz | “I encourage you to resist the urge to be bored with the beautiful, tasty world that He delighted to create and share with us.”

Ruthie Bond | “‘Give all of your life to Jesus (the messy and the clean).'”

Jim Wickenkamp | “I’m thankful that God has been (and continues to be) patient with me, long enough for me to realize this, so He can change my stubbornness into true patience.”

Drake Holderman | “Camp is one of those rare, sacred spaces where eternal things seem to get just a little bit clearer.”

Olivia Turner | “He just told me that I would go. In that moment, I had to make a choice to trust God or to lean on my own understanding.”

Chip Songer | “So your presence matters on a Sunday—probably more than you realize. Not just to me, but those you do life with, those you sit beside, or those who don’t even know you.”

Theresa Barnes | “I trust that the Lord will provide exactly what I need. He’ll comfort me when I’m sad, speak truth into my life when I’m battling lies, send friends my way when I feel lonely, and wrap me in His arms through the love of those around me.”

Carryn Osborn | “God has shown me that motherhood is not one size fits all. I didn’t have to wait around to get married and have biological children or take on long-term foster placements to be a mother, instead, I could be a loving mother figure in the lives of countless kids in my community today. “

Josh Clark | “It was there, standing on once-discarded land, that I saw a more compelling version of paradise. Not a place without brokenness, but a place where brokenness has been redeemed.”

Drake Holderman | “But He’s there. He’s waiting. He’s ready. And there is nothing He wants more than for His children to come home.”

Raina Songer | “Hope in Jesus becomes more than a belief—it becomes a desire to truly know Him, and a growing awareness that He is the treasure we’ve been searching for all along.”

Maggie Schade | “You don’t end up having a 2 hour supervised visit with your child because your life is rainbows and butterflies. You find yourself there because the opposite is true. The stories are messy, the situations are complex, but the thing they all have in common is the brokenness that marks them.”