There was one church member who wouldn’t leave me alone. Then there was the flip side, with older people saying, “You’re just making a mockery.” But my challenges became bigger than that. I remember throwing youth conferences twice a year that to this day give me chills to recollect - opening service to a church packed full of young people slain, in the floor, crying, worshiping, calling out to God so intensely the choir director said not a soul in there was seated.
It felt amazing doing what I’d been called to do.
Born and raised in the church, I was a minister by age 12, an elder by the time I was 15.
