My hurt and pain started 2 weeks before my 13th birthday when I found my father laying on the floor in my parent’s bedroom unresponsive. He had suffered from a major stroke. Two days later a second stroke took his life. Six weeks after my father’s funeral my mother...
I attended the RLI conference during the fall of 2014. For about two years before it I had been experiencing frustration and grief over not being able to feel God’s love for me although I knew He did. I also struggled with a lot of self-criticism, and the month before...
We would like to thank you for leading the RLI conference we attended last September, and share some of the powerful ways your ministry has impacted us. We were dating when we attended the conference, and RLI provided a wonderful opportunity for us to get to know each...
When Angela’s husband Jimmy came to a conference at Elevation Church in Blanchester last year, Angela stayed home. Jimmy had such an amazing experience at the conference that he kept bugging her to go to a conference. Finally Angela decided to try out the conference...
In February of 2015, I was half way through my 24th year of teaching high school students. One cold winter morning, during my first period class, my cell phone began vibrating as it sat on my desk. Seeing that it was a number from the community where my husband...
Hopeless, confused, and ashamed, were all words that described my mental, spiritual and emotional state in June of 2015 when I attended my first RLI conference. After spending nearly 18 years in full-time ministry, I was broken and had lost my identity. Earlier in...
