Personal Narrative: Finding Hope In Christianity

Up next was respect. After searching my memories again, I remembered camp. When I was at a camp, I met all kinds of girls and boys with different religions than myself. One of my best friends at camp, Sophia, was agnostic. My Christian friend tried to witness to her, but Sophia became upset and walked into her dorm, slamming the door. Quickly, I knocked on the door and begged her to let me in. She did reluctantly, and I apologized for forcing Christianity on her. You can’t force a religion on a person. Simply, I explained that I respected her beliefs. Maybe a week later, Sophia and I were on a bus together, and I told her about how I believed that being a Christian helped when you felt like your world was falling down. I apologized if I offended her, but explained that it was what I believed. She said that she knew and respected my beliefs as well.

As I finished reading the first three chapters of Courageous Faith, I found myself to be most identified with Abraham. The beginning of new things is hard and challenging, and it takes great faith and courage for a person to make a decision that can change his whole life. This was what happened with Abram. God told him to leave behind his whole world to move to Canaan. He had to face new and unfamiliar people and environment, but he believed in God and follow His will. Throughout my life, I have met with changes throughout the years. From elementary to high school, I always go to a school far away from the previous with new environment, and all the people there already know each other and are friends. Then I study abroad in the States, this

Today was a boring and very uncomfortable day for me. Everyone know my last day here at Grace Christian Center is tomorrow so everyone is telling me that they’re sorry that I’m leaving. I’m not sure if its true or not , but its nice to hear. When I walked through the doors of GCC I went straight back to my seat and started cleaning out my desk. I don’t have much in there but I want to make sure that I leave it in better shape than when I got it. Just because I’m leaving doesn’t mean that I have to leave my work area cluttered. After cleaning up my area I decided that I was going to go downstairs to eat lunch with the rest of the staff member, which was odd because that’s something that I normally run away from. Me and the staff ate

Walking through the forest, a lone owl hoots at my presence. There are thousands of creatures accompanying me in this dense wood, yet my eyes catch only this owl. The leaves crunch under my feet; the predators and the prey of the forest watch in curiosity as this strange intruder stamps across their land. I know they’re there, somewhere, yet they stay shrouded in their leafy homes. It was in that moment that I found what fascinates me the most: why am I here among these creatures? It wasn’t a feeling of alienation, rather, a lack of understanding for the purpose of our existence.

If I were to start my own Faith Community Practice I would first plan to sign up for EMU's online Faith Community Nursing Course in order to fully understand what an FCN is and how best to go about establishing my own practice. After completing the course, spend however much time I needed to figure out how exactly I want to run my practice. After figuring out a baseline plan, I would go about facing my other challenges. One challenge that I would most likely face is where to set up my practice. I would most likely want to start my practice in service to my home church at Lindale Mennonite Church. I don't believe we have an FCN practice there and I think it would an amazing opportunity to serve my home church in that manner if they allow. My

If I were to start my own Faith Community Practice I would first plan to sign up for EMU's online Faith Community Nursing Course in order to fully understand what an FCN is and how best to go about establishing my own practice. After completing the course, I would spend however much time I needed to figure out how exactly I want to run my practice. After figuring out a baseline plan, I would go about facing my other challenges. One challenge that I would most likely face is where to set up my practice. I would most likely want to start my practice in service to my home church at Lindale Mennonite Church. I don't believe we have an FCN practice there and I think it would be an amazing opportunity to serve my home church in that manner if they

I became a Christian in 1982 while in high school. I had never attended church prior to Easter 1982. I found something interesting in the whole of the service and decided to read a Bible. The Bible made some sense to me. I had a few questions about some of the stuff that had happened and was given Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell. Well that answered most of my questions. I was also given Mere Christianity which answered more questions. I felt convicted by the Holy Spirit and asked G-d to come into my life and forgive me of my sins.

If I were to start my own Faith Community Practice I would first plan to sign up for EMU's online Faith Community Nursing Course in order to fully understand what a FCN is and how best to go about establishing my own practice. With that first challenge out of the way once completing the course, I would go about facing my other challenges. One challenge that I would most likely face is where to set up my practice. I would most likely want to start my practice in service to my home church at Lindale Mennonite church. I don't believe we have a FCN practice there and I think it would an amazing opportunity to serve my home church in that manner if they allow. My challenge within that is where to actually set up my practice whether that be coordinating

On Sunday, November 2 at 10:00am, I attended Shepherd’s Community Methodist church in Lakeland, Florida. It had been several weeks since I had attended church and I was looking forward to worshiping and learning from the message that would be delivered by the pastor. At a United Methodist Church the first Sunday is “Communion Sunday” and I was excited to take part in the sacrament of Holy Communion at the service. Pastor Mark Reynolds was the pastor that delivered the sermon titled “The Best Investment”.

After much consideration my husband and I have decided that Michael will not longer be attending The Reason For Hope effective immediately. I welcome the chance to sit down and talk with you should you choose to discuss the situation. It was not easy to arrive at this decision but it has been a long time coming. We have been increasingly more uncomfortable with your program in recent months for the reasons below.

Just the other night I was having a conversation with a close friend. As always after the 20 minute catch up chat, about what we are currently into and doing. We dive into a talk about school and then faith and as a clock is guaranteed to change time our conversation shifts into a long discussion about our childhoods. We exchange story after story, laughing, regretting, asking “what if”, and “what would you do”. No matter how long we laugh or ask questions, we always come to the finalized conclusion that our childhoods were crystallized in what has been termed the “christian bubble”. Now for those who are not familiar with the “christian bubble”, it is a commonly practiced form of parenting within Christian homes. Like packing a suitcase for

My time within the faith community has impacted me both negatively and positively on complete opposite ends of that spectrum. As a baby believer, I accepted a job working in a large, two hundred staff member church with three thousand volunteers on the roster. Thus, began a six-year journey that exposed me to varying forms of Christian Community. Staff gatherings, retreats, a life group, missions and volunteer groups, the Christian motorcycle community, and Freedom Session small groups. I had never read the bible, been discipled, baptized, prayed out loud, accepted Christ into my heart, or even prayed the sinner’s prayer. I started my Jesus journey spending sixty hours a week with lifelong mature Christians who spoke the foreign language of

From birth my parents raised me to be of Christian faith. I have never believed in anything else, nor did I ever question the existence of the Almighty God. But when faith would surface as a subject in school, I would be pummeled with questions about why I had followed such a contradictory religion. Although I found defending my faith, at that time, to be complicated, it was not the most significant challenge; instead, it was my freshman year in high school. The year of 2013 seemed to be an entirely new era, people were just beginning to find themselves and explore new endeavors, and hat year I explored Chinese class. It was few in numbers, just about eleven students, and as one could imagine, we became genuinely close as classmates. Early

My journey with God started in February of 1993, when I went to a ladies’ conference in Columbus, Texas. It was while the speaker was explaining that she knew there were some of us out in the audience, who felt guilty about something they had done in their past, and they did not feel that God could forgive them for it. But then she quoted from God’s word; “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, not principalities, no things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39 NASB) The speaker continued on to say that all we need to do is

Humans from my own point of view are God's creation, because the bible makes me understand that humans were created in God's image, and during the creation of man, God blew the breath of life into man to make him come alive. I assume the reason humans are so unique is that they were created like God. The reason why humans are the best of all creation is that they can think, invent new things, and have dominion of all other creatures on earth. Humans are the only living creation that is conscious of their own existence, because they have advanced knowledge and skills to do things, for example, humans can clothe themselves, cook their foods, and even invent numerous technologies. Humans have a well-regulated sense that is able to