by The Park | Jun 24, 2025 | Story Formed
“I think I saw angels coming up from the lake.” We were a group of girls huddled together in our cabin at a rustic summer camp. Thinking back on it, I’m not sure there were angels there that night since it was highly likely it was another group of campers with...
by The Park | Jun 24, 2025 | Story Formed
My Name is Des, I come from a family of nominal Catholics. We would go to church on the high holidays: Christmas, Easter and when we weren’t too tired from a Saturday night’s festivities. I received all of my sacraments and I would try not to sin. I thought I was...
by The Park | Jun 24, 2025 | Story Formed
I grew up in a loving and supportive family. We didn’t attend church or speak much about faith. That changed in my early twenties when I encountered Jesus for the first time—and everything shifted. When I became a Christian, I was all in. I dove headfirst into my...
by The Park | Jun 24, 2025 | Story Formed
Some time in the early ‘90s, you could find my parents living in a small apartment above a funeral home in Austin, Texas. It was there, in my first home, that I was folded into the rhythm of church. My father had been a minister of music for over ten years and it was...
by The Park | Jun 24, 2025 | Story Formed
A disillusioned Catholic and devout Baptist is the context of my spiritual beginnings. My Dad dove head first into a new found faith through the message of the Baptist church of the late eighties and early nineties. One of my earliest memories is watching my Dad being...
by The Park | Jun 24, 2025 | Story Formed
I grew up in a relatively small town in Missouri located squarely in the “Bible Belt”. My parents were charter members of the independent Baptist church that we attended and were extremely involved; my dad was a deacon, and my mom was a Sunday School teacher, pianist,...
