Testimonials

The stories we receive are touching and meaningful, and at the heart of each is absolute proof that DiscoveryBound’s programs are effectively accomplishing our mission of “Opening Windows to God.”

Teen Discovers in Himself the Person He Wants to Be

Categories: Participant Stories
At 13, Alex was getting into trouble. A neighbor had taken him to a Christian Science Sunday School from ages 5-10, but he stopped attending and started hanging out with a “rough crowd,” as he describes it. Between acting out at home, smoking and other harmful choices, he had become someone else. “It wasn’t really …

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Finding Her Voice

Categories: Participant Stories
The quiet girl Stephanie Johnson taught in her Sunday School class attended only sporadically. She had a hard time getting a ride to church and often joined the class via Skype. “She was also a child who found it very difficult to put her thoughts into words, and then get them out of her mouth,” …

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Finding Joy

Categories: Participant Stories
When Noel attended his first DiscoveryBound Outreach event, he was coming off a rough year. He had been in a skateboard accident the summer before 8th grade that landed him in the hospital for a week. His friends had started drinking and using marijuana, leading to his isolation when he refused. And at school, his …

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Standing Solidly in Truth

Categories: Participant Stories
Each class in the National Leadership Council goes on an adventure trip in the second year of the program. This two-week trip, mostly outdoors in an environment unfamiliar to the teens, is designed to strengthen each student’s trust in God individually and as part of a supportive group. Corrina saw how that trust results in …

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Revealing the Servant Leader Within

Categories: Participant Stories
Great leaders – whether Christ Jesus or the teacher in your neighborhood school – inspire others to act by their example. Ricardo, who lives in Guatemala with his wife and daughter, has been an inspiration to Rachel, a student in the DiscoveryBound National Leadership Council (NLC) 2018C class. Rachel met Ricardo during the service trip …

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