Does Jesus Still Love Me?

“I don’t think God is going to do anything special through me here.” This thought nagged me the whole way to school. Sure enough, at the end of the day I left school disappointed. It had gone well enough, but I didn’t feel that the kids got anything out of what I...

Overcoming Darkness with Light

“Everyone is dark and scary.” This is what a kindergartener told me at Bible club. I could see the fear in her eyes. Another girl on my small group joined in the conversation. “Sometimes I see things that scare me too, like people in Halloween...

Freedom From Lies

Since last summer, I have been struggling with a strong fear of rejection. I didn’t know how to break it, or if the power of this fear could be broken at all. I’d been trying to do it in my own strength, and asking God to help me do it. But it had never occurred...

Jet Lag

I was overjoyed at the prospect of coming back to ITG this session, but nervous. My family and I would be arriving back in the States from an overseas missions trip the day before session started. I would surely still be suffering from jet lag. How would I survive? I...

Two Girls From Taiwan

“They’re staying from June to September?” While I was away at In The Gap, my mother told me that two girls from Taiwan were going to stay with us all summer. I was so excited, until they arrived. Even the inner city kids in Oklahoma weren’t as bad as...