Birthday: December 4

Hometown: Dayton, Texas

Prayer Requests: Seeking guidance, knowing where God wants me, and diligence in studies.

Personal Testimony: I was raised in a non- christian enviroment by my mother and my step father. I ony saw my real dad a few times. My parents raised me and my two siblings around drugs and sex. My mother wasw a prostitute and my father was big into drugs and gangs. I basically raised my younger sister and my brother by myself. I was abused my my step dad all of my life. Coming to school with bruises and stories behind them, knowing the truth would make no difference. My mom has been to prison multiple times and that is where she is now.
By age 13 my father raped me. I was at the place in my life where I felt completely useless. I hated males, hated God, and hated life. I hated my mother for sitting back and watching him break bones in my body and never come when i cried to her.
I live with my grandparents off and on and in the summer of 2005 my aunt and uncle, who are the only christians in our family, came for a short visit telling me later they felt God had asked them to be there at that specific time.
My father and mother decided to place me in juvinile hall so I wouldnt tell on my dad for all of the things he did to me. My aunt and my uncle decided to ask if they could have me, even though they had before and the answer was always no. My parents said fine and i packed my life in a backpack and moved from my home in indiana to texas.
That month in august I was saved, though it was truly reluctance, and through a pastor i was not really fond of. God works no matter your prejudice. The conviction of the holy spirit can penetrate through everything, if you allow it.
The next 4 years leading up to BMW was not easy. I still have problems trusting God and loving Him passionately like I should and trusting people. But God shows me constantly life is about taking risks. If we gain the whole world and lose are soul, what value are we? And if we have all the wealth and not love, what have we really recieved?
So no matter what I do or where I go, I constanly thank God for saving someone like me…. someone so undeserving. I constantly stand in awe of Him.