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When I surrendered to Jesus’ plan, He restored what I thought I lost. -H.K.
Jesus called me to Antioch in 2020. It was a radical 180 in my life, though from the outside everything looked good. In reality, I was desperately seeking God’s will for my life. I had no friends my age, and hard circumstances growing up had given me a lot of anxiety. I was alone, weeping…
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For the first time, discipleship, prayer, and living out the Bible felt real and tangible. -S.V.
Before coming to Antioch Orlando, I was in a place where I knew I wanted a deeper relationship with God, but I didn’t know how to get there. I felt spiritually stagnant and honestly pretty isolated after recently moving to Orlando. I believed in Jesus, but I didn’t really have a community where I could…
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I never thought I would be known and loved in the way I am now. -E.L.
In 2018, I moved to Orlando for college. At the time, I began to ponder more about life, its meaning, and my purpose. I remember being so excited for what I imagined college to be like. I will say none of those plans involved God. Despite my worldly plans, there was a part of me…
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Antioch was the turning point that brought me back to faith. -A.C.
Growing up, I started attending church around the age of six or seven. At first, it was more of an after-school program because my parents were busy in the afternoons. My relatives, including uncles and aunts, also attended that church, so I joined the program. One memorable experience was participating in a drama about Jesus…
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The first thing I noticed wasn’t the building or the greeters—it was the peace of God. – T.F.
If you had told me a few years ago that an ordinary high school in north Oviedo would be where the embers of this Brazilian’s faith would suddenly blaze into a deeper, steadier fire, I wouldn’t have believed you. Yet there I stood, weeping during worship as people I didn’t know encouraged me with the…
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I experienced people who genuinely wanted me to know who Jesus really was and what He really said. – M.B.
Before coming to Antioch, I would have considered myself a cultural Christian, knowing religious ideas but not having, or even knowing, what God really wanted, which is a personal relationship with me. Honestly, I was fine with that because I believed that as long as you profess Jesus, you should be good. When I was…