Story told by Sharon Ast, written by Kevin Miller With a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other, Sharon Ast knelt beside her bed and asked God’s permission to take her own life. It wasn’t the first time her fate was about to be decided at gunpoint. Growing up, her alcoholic father would often hold a shotgun on Sharon and her brothers as he decided whether or not they’d be better off dead. The only difference that afternoon was that Sharon’s... > Full Story

Show up at Sharon Ast’s house on Tuesday night and you had better be prepared for things to get a little messy. Although Tea and Comfort, the ministry that meets in her home, leads...

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Stripped of dignity and hope, beaten and malnourished. The abandoned six-year-old lay on a mound of garbage wanting to die. Then out of nowhere, a ray of sunshine pierced the black...

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This is a story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. Yulia Kolodotchka lived much of her life fearing she’d go blind. Then she discovered a vision of a...

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I hated my brother. He teased and tormented me relentlessly. I was only ten. My hatred buried itself deep within me, like a worm eating holes in my child’s heart. Maybe it...

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I am a Native North American woman. I was abandoned at the age of four, with five other siblings, in a hotel in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. My parents were on a drinking spree....

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Love – the answer to loneliness. That’s what I was looking for. All I wanted was someone to love me, that I could love in return. Born into a happy family, my early life...

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Where do I start? My husband drinks too much, becomes angry, verbally abusive, sometimes slightly physically abusive. He has been this way for the last year. The occurrences have...

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My husband thinks I am possessive.  He pushed and beat me because I could not control my anger and I said some bad things about his parents and brothers. My right hand is broken....

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I am 25 years old and have been in therapy for about four years now but I am still not feeling good about myself. I really don’t know how to make myself feel good for a long...

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