I grew up in a loving home, attended church, and became a Christian early. When I moved to Des Moines in 1989, I looked for a church and found one similar to where I grew up. I joined the choir, the women’s group, and a Bible study. I made friends and was elected to the board. But something was missing. That’s when my friend Susan invited me to Hope. She asked me seven times before I agreed. Hope was still at the building on Ashworth, and that small building was very crowded the Sunday I visited! Hope intrigued me enough that I thought I would try it again. Little did I know being intrigued was God’s way of saying he could be much MORE than I was letting him be. When I was little, I kept God in a “Sunday Only” box. Now at Hope, I was hearing God wanted a daily relationship with me. I had been so busy doing good things for good reasons, but always with a distance between God and me. I was doing things FOR God. I never considered asking God to do things THROUGH me. How on earth did I...