Weena's Story
I should hate the church.
Really, I should. If you knew the whole of my story, you’d likely be surprised by my deep love for it. My deepest wounds and scars are all associated with the church. I can trace them back to my earliest memories as a child and they continued right into my adult life. I’m a preacher’s kid, former elder’s wife and former church staff member. I’ve been in and around the church my entire life and I’ve seen it all - the good, the bad and the ugly. And the side no one talks about - the underbelly.
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An Interview with the Coys
We sat down with Jake and Kelly Coy, Springboro City Pastors, to get personal about City Lights. And here’s what they had to say:
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...the least of these...
…..As you have done for the least of these brothers and sisters, you have done to me. I have never personally met anyone who personifies this scripture, more vividly and sacrificially, than my friend Rachel.
And she needs our help.
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From Riches to Rags to Redeemed: Mary Clark’s Story of Redemption
Mary grew up in an affluent Golf Course community in Pebble Beach, CA. It appeared she had everything a child could want. But it was a terribly dysfunctional home. Both parents were alcoholics and she ended up being raised by her nanny. Eventually, her parents divorced and she moved with her Mom to Southern CA. She became pregnant with a man who wanted nothing to do with her or their son.
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The Global Leadership Summit – My story (by Pete Creamer)
It was forty years ago, and I was the teaching pastor of the Xenia First Church of Christ. I was in a period in my ministry when I didn’t know how desperate I was for spiritual refreshment and leadership training. I was on “auto-pilot” – doing all the things I thought was required of me, but I was also drained and empty in my soul. I just didn’t realize it. I received information about a Leadership Conference that was to be held at a mega-church in Chicago – called Willow Creek.
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Tom's Boots on the Ground
I want to introduce you to Tom, a WPAFB electrical engineer by trade but called by Jesus to the streets of downtown Dayton. One day Tom felt God tell him to pray and walk around Hope Church on Xenia Ave. seven times, and then God asked him to do it every week for a year. And he’s been doing it ever since.
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A Story of Redemption
"I wanted to be HAPPY and WHOLE, even though I was terrified of what it would cost."
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Family chooses ‘faith over fear’ ends up with 100 kids.
Do your big ideas start out as a dream? A word from the Lord? This is the story of Anthony Parker, laying in bed one morning when he heard the Father say that he wanted Anthony to start a camp for at risk boys…
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