Valentine Banquet

Guest Speakers:

God has a way of writing stories in a way that brings hope, encourages, transforms, and unites. He takes the most difficult circumstances and turns challenges into gifts.

Stacy’s story is one of abandonment, abuse, and deep loss. “What a child almost always understands about God comes through their earthly father.” Stacy was abandoned by her mom at the age of 8. If that wasn’t enough, she never had the blessing of knowing who her earthy father was until she was almost 40 years old. A little girl should never have to endure pain like that. This pain led to a lifetime of loneliness, shame, never feeling good enough to be loved, and not trusting that her Heavenly Father would really take care of her, or if he even existed.

Brent’s story was almost the exact opposite. Growing up in Pennsylvania, his mother and father were both heavily involved in church. Brent’s mother led the choir, and his father taught Sunday school. Brent would go on to become a national recording artist in the Christian music industry, and it would take him on a journey around the world with some of the biggest names in music. He would also become an ordained pastor, a certified life coach, speaker, and author, but a personal shipwreck in his life years earlier would haunt him. That shame would leave him feeling abandoned, alone, ashamed, and not worthy of God’s love.