“Walking in the Light”  Stanley grew up in a close-knit Christian family. In addition to church activities, he spent his boyhood fishing, hunting, camping and farming on the land surrounding his peaceful rural home.   “It was a beautiful childhood,” he says. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”  But sadly, something was missing.    As the sixth of 11 children, Stanley often felt invisible and overlooked, especially by his mother. The unresolved wound quietly shaped how he saw himself.   He excelled at sports – football, baseball, basketball, track and wrestling.

“Now I’m walking in the light.”  Adopted at a young age, Vera was raised in a family of nine children. She loved school, sang in the church choir and developed her passion for cooking while working her first job at a fast-food restaurant. Though her childhood seemed happy, she carried a quiet sadness. “I didn’t understand why my birth mother gave me up,” she recalls. “It

God Brought Me Out of the Darkness.  For years, James lived on the edge – run-ins with the law and running from the Lord. He hated himself and believed he would die in that dark and broken state. But at City Rescue Mission, surrounded by prayer, compassion and the truth of the Gospel, James discovered how to live in the