Jessica's Story

I graduated college and about six months after I ended up getting a job in New York City. I was moving from a very small town in North Carolina to this giant city full of things that I'd never experienced before and there was just this hunger burning inside of me that I really wanted to succeed and make something of myself. And so I started surrounding myself with other like-minded people and very quickly found friends who are in the same zone as me. We wanted to make a lot of money. We wanted to party really hard. We wanted to live this glamorous lifestyle that you really only see in movies and TV. I was longing to be happy. I was longing to feel like I was somebody, but yet the more that I achieved and obtained, the more that feeling grew inside of me. I can speak from experience. I had it all and it was never enough. If all of these things are not making me happy, then what am I missing here? And it really led me down a path to start exploring who Jesus was and if these claims of Christianity were truly what they say that they are. And I remember this moment walking down Madison Avenue in New York city and just feeling kind of this pull in my heart, a pull towards all the things that I was seeing on the street and the windows and the people and this lifestyle that I had been chasing after and then a pull of Jesus saying to me, "I'm what you're looking for. I'm what you've been searching for all of these years. All of those things that you thought would make you happy, I'm it." I finally found purpose and fulfillment in my relationship with Jesus Christ. And I just want to encourage any of you out there that if you are feeling lonely, if you're feeling unfulfilled, if you're hurting, I would encourage you to explore a relationship with Jesus Christ.