One day while she was home with her baby and Ivan was out, there was a knock at the door. When Sophia opened it there stood an older man asking for Ivan. She quickly got annoyed with him and wanted shut the door in his face, but instead, for some unexplained reason, she invited him…

Sophia grew up without her mom. As a child she was back and forth from her dad’s place, her kookum (her grandmother), and the group home. Later, Sophia moved to Onion Lake to care for her grandma as she grew older. Then in high school Sophia got involved in an abusive relationship and a lifestyle…

Leo grew up around the Stomp Dance but didn’t know much about it. What he did know is that it didn’t seem to make a difference in his community. People were stuck in alcohol, drugs, and violence. Feeling hopeless and caught in his own battles, Leo considered suicide. But instead, he reached out for God.

Adam felt abandoned by his biological father. But he discovered that as a child of God he had a Heavenly Father. Our dads will let us down. We all have our struggles in this life – like our fathers did. But God is the perfect Father. He won’t let His children down. He will never…

Adam grew up without a father. He got involved in drugs, alcohol, and the gang life. He reached a point though where he realized that he wasn’t happy. An important conversation with his grandmother helped him realize that things could be different.

“… And that’s when I repented of my sin, when for the first time I turned my back on sin, and really cast myself on Jesus Christ to be my Savior. And I can really say for the first time a lot of people say, you don’t go by emotions and stuff, I back that…

“I can remember being happy as a child – there came a time when I began to see that the world was a dark place and that things were not as they should be.” Soon, Randy would get caught up in his own darkness. He read the Bible, and at the age of seventeen, fear…

“I was going through a lot of hurt and loneliness; I didn’t feel like I added up. I had one very close friend, and I was thinking about suicide; we talked about it, like I told her, “Maybe it’s the only way out.” And then I heard somewhere later, that if you do that, you…

Carla is originally from the Garden Valley First Nation in Manitoba. As a baby, she was given up for adoption and brought into a non-Native family. Early on it became apparent that something was different about her. She was soon diagnosed with cerebral palsy. With a gentle honesty, Carla shares about some of the challenges…