Based on interviews conducted on March 8 and March 10, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California: I was living in Florida, raised in Florida. When I was 15-1/2 years old, I was a little hippie chick wanting to go in that direction. I saw myself living in a hippie commune some day. My Dad would ask me, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” I would say, “I… Read More »Cathy’s Story
Based on an interview conducted on March 8, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California: My dad was in the Army, so we moved around quite a bit. And we ended up in Northridge, California. And from there I went to UCSB in 1965 for college. I decided on UCSB because it was a beautiful campus, a party school, and plenty of surf. And my brother was also going there, so I could use… Read More »Paul’s Story
Based on an interview conducted on March 9, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California: My name is Lynn and I was raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. There, my sister, Cathy , and I shared our church upbringing, but took different paths once we moved to Santa Barbara. We went to church with my mom when children, so had a Bible teaching background. When I was age fourteen, my sister and her… Read More »Lynn’s Story
A testimony written on 3/14/20: While I know Jesus came into my heart when I was 4 or 5, when led by a parent at bedtime I asked Him to, in college I “wandered away” and was into some kind of pantheism. All that changed in the space of a few weeks in which God pursued me very explicitly and directly through the Holy Spirit as well as through several people.… Read More »Nancy’s Story