If you don't have a friend in the world, you can find one here. That sign used to hang outside Rockford Rescue Mission, and it was a big reason I came here for help. I'm a military brat. We bounced around a lot when I...
I was the woman people would look at and say, “She has everything.” Nice home, great Christian family. But I had a secret. I was a victim of sexual abuse between the ages 4 and 8. I carried that secret for 40 years — but...
When I went to prison for armed robbery, certain people caught my attention because I knew them from the streets. They had changed. Now they were talking to me about God and about the Bible. “Whatever,” I told them. But to myself, I wondered: I...
Several years ago, I looked around the cheap hotel room where I was living and thought: This is my life? Really? I thought my full story was already written — a rough childhood, a prison term, broken relationships and decades of heavy drinking. I wanted help,...
