The Calling To Awake

Major thank you to Matter News, especially Andy Downing, who took great care and conducted thorough research. Thank you so very much for helping me share part of my journey.  Lost Sheep Combating The Darkness: https://matternews.org/community/arent-you-supposed-to-go-after-lost-sheep/ "Decades after Elizabeth Thompson said she was molested as a child by a fellow parishioner more than two decades her senior at Faith Memorial Church in Lancaster, Ohio, she has finally started to make her way back toward the light.  In March 2019, Elizabeth LaPorte Thompson drove nearly 650 miles from Savannah, Georgia, to Lancaster, Ohio, and Faith Memorial Church – a place she frequented throughout childhood but hadn’t set foot inside for decades. The years leading up to that moment had been fraught for Thompson, 42. As a teenager, she dropped out of Circleville Bible College amid struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and an associated eating disorder that she said at one point left her wei...

I was 19 and in Haiti on a mission trip. I was getting ready to move there for two years with the mission org. Lifeline, which would never happen. I came back completely broken, but not in the ways one would think. The compound we were staying at required that the parents of the children who attended school convert to Christianity. If they were not Christian, the kids could not receive an education in that remote village. One father of two beautiful children happened to be the son of a very well-known warlock. The father converted to Christianity just so that his kids had a chance to better themselves one day. When his warlock father found out about his conversion, he took his two grandchildren and threw them into a large fire. Other natives went in and snatched the kids from the flames and brought them to the compound, where me and two team members were in charge of the children. I know they were in so much pain, but the shock was so intense, perhaps in a trance put on them by their...