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Life, and life to the full. -K.Z.
I’ve experienced loneliness, hopelessness, grief, rejection, favoritism, cliques, fame, popularity, being misunderstood, people pleasing, weakness, tiredness, laziness, sin, lust, distractions, and an army of other trials in my past. Most churches in my life never really had the right tools to help me work on these things. In fact, I’ve been places where those things…
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God used this church to teach me how to love and serve others. -G.L.
I’ve been attending Antioch Orlando since 2012, and I love calling this church my home. I grew up in a different church but was never taught how to have a relationship with Jesus. To me, it was just a set of rules I had to follow. I had no concept of the family of God…
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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…