notashamed
Tribe of Judah Accounts Manager
I would like to get to know everyone, and I would also like to give people an opportunity to get to know me. Please include as much or as little information about yourself as you like.
Name: Lesley
Age: 24
Location: Indiana
Relationship: Married (to Bryan aka Str Fortress/Hananiah)
Pets/children: we do not have any kids, but we have 4 cats (Gandalf, Nick, Frodo, and Gweneviere) and a dog (Talitha-which means "little girl" refer to Mark 5:41)
Occupation: Right now I work at a Property Preservation company (we take care of the maintance on foreclosed homes), but I'm starting Grad School in the Spring for Accounting. I was also in youth ministry for 5 years, although I am not anymore.
My Walk with God: Well I accepted Christ into my heart at 14, but my family did not go to church, and I had no one to diciple me so I quickly became like the seed planted among the weeds. When the worries of life come up, my faith was strangled to death. When I was 18, I started working at a Christian retail store, and I learned a lot about God during that time. At 19 God called me to start a youth group at my church. I agrued with him. I tried to compromise by leading 4-5 year old Sunday School and then by leading youth Sunday School, but I was miserable in those places. So finally he won, and I started a Youth group with 3 kids. Then my brother and 2 of my husbands brother started coming so the group doubled to 6. The ministry blossumed for about 3 years. There were some issues that I struggled with during that time, that I know effected the kids indirectly. At the time though I was more concerned about myself then them. When I finally repented, the group continued to grow for a while. At one point we ministered regularly and occationally to about 50 youth (which was huge since average Sunday attendance was only about 45). At that point there were people in the church who disagreed with me that even the "small" sins were a big deal. This eventually filtered down to the youth, and the ministry when down to less than 10. It wasn't about learning about God anymore. It became more about critisizing the leaders for being to intolerate. At that point my husband and I kept trying, but we were ineffective and we stepped down. We then joined a church that shared our values, and we have received a lot of healing there. We are being called to leadership in the church once again, and we are very excited about where God will take us next!
Name: Lesley
Age: 24
Location: Indiana
Relationship: Married (to Bryan aka Str Fortress/Hananiah)
Pets/children: we do not have any kids, but we have 4 cats (Gandalf, Nick, Frodo, and Gweneviere) and a dog (Talitha-which means "little girl" refer to Mark 5:41)
Occupation: Right now I work at a Property Preservation company (we take care of the maintance on foreclosed homes), but I'm starting Grad School in the Spring for Accounting. I was also in youth ministry for 5 years, although I am not anymore.
My Walk with God: Well I accepted Christ into my heart at 14, but my family did not go to church, and I had no one to diciple me so I quickly became like the seed planted among the weeds. When the worries of life come up, my faith was strangled to death. When I was 18, I started working at a Christian retail store, and I learned a lot about God during that time. At 19 God called me to start a youth group at my church. I agrued with him. I tried to compromise by leading 4-5 year old Sunday School and then by leading youth Sunday School, but I was miserable in those places. So finally he won, and I started a Youth group with 3 kids. Then my brother and 2 of my husbands brother started coming so the group doubled to 6. The ministry blossumed for about 3 years. There were some issues that I struggled with during that time, that I know effected the kids indirectly. At the time though I was more concerned about myself then them. When I finally repented, the group continued to grow for a while. At one point we ministered regularly and occationally to about 50 youth (which was huge since average Sunday attendance was only about 45). At that point there were people in the church who disagreed with me that even the "small" sins were a big deal. This eventually filtered down to the youth, and the ministry when down to less than 10. It wasn't about learning about God anymore. It became more about critisizing the leaders for being to intolerate. At that point my husband and I kept trying, but we were ineffective and we stepped down. We then joined a church that shared our values, and we have received a lot of healing there. We are being called to leadership in the church once again, and we are very excited about where God will take us next!