“Word of Life was very gracious, because I was coming from a really horrible place,” she recalls.
Although she’d grown up in a Christian family in North Carolina and was heavily involved in her youth group, summer camp, and missions trips, Rachel admits she didn’t have a personal relationship with Jesus. But when she met two Christian models on a photo shoot, they encouraged her to get honest with God, to call out to Him, and to ask Christ into her heart. She saw something different about them and wanted what they had. That night, alone on her apartment floor, she got honest with God and asked Him to save her.
“I felt God’s Spirit move,” Rachel says. “I couldn’t explain it, but I knew God heard me and saved me.”
When she woke up the next morning, Rachel was changed. Everything that didn’t glorify God had to go – her music collection, her use of profanity, her side job at a bar, and the toxic relationships in her life.
“I wanted God, and that was all I wanted,” Rachel says.
She didn’t know much about the Bible Institute or anyone who had attended, but she says she knew God was leading her to go.
