Personal Narrative: My Involvement In Church

During my childhood and lower teens, I was very involved in church. I would go to every event or meeting put on by our church. Watching certain senior youth members, I didn’t understand why they would just come to the fun events. I would only see them during our mission trips or camps, but never at business or regular meetings. Then I promised myself that I would always stay as active as I could. Then in high school, I feel for this Baptist guy, who was just unsure about religion in general. I decided that I should bring him to church, the church where I found my faith. After bringing him to a youth group event, the kids in my youth group made fun of him and told him how I deserved a better boyfriend. Enraged, I stopped going to almost all church events. I would only go to events where there would be more than just the youth from my old church. I became the senior youth member that only came to the “fun” things. Soon after leaving my church, I had a fall out with my faith. Depression, sadness, and anger were the only feelings I could muster out of my system. A few months into my senior year, my mom finally realized that I was going down a dark path. Together we figured out my depression, sadness, and anger all started when I left the church and turned my back on God. That moment I …show more content…
At this homeless mission there will be different services such as: healthy clinic, counseling, seamstress (or clothing options), and schooling (for children and adults to receive diploma equivalent). This would give back to my community by giving the homeless an outlet of resources to put them back on their feet. To give back to the church, my goal is to one day become a youth leader. I want to help educate youth about God and his love, grace, and forgiveness for us all. I not only want to educate but I want to be a friend that the youth can come to with all sorts of problems that I can guide them