Journeys. Grace Christian Center. College Place, WA.

Life for many of us is a series of journeys, like the ones in these real stories from Walla Walla, Washington. We find ourselves restless and move on from one place to the next, or even from one relationship to the next, looking for something we have lost or something we never had from the beginning …

Gentry’s father was a drug dealer, and his mother was addicted herself. He grew up in the ghetto, where he and his brother practically raised themselves. Gentry became an accomplished thief, a father and an Army recruit. Then depression struck him like a blast from a hot furnace, and one night he decided to end it all. But something more powerful than speech compelled him to set the gun down …

Lisa had never been able to please her stepfather. She longed for love and approval, but seemed to attract only the wrong kind, leaving her more depressed, lonely and out of touch than ever. She couldn’t fathom that anyone could love her just as she was, and she had a hard time making friends. Then in less than a year, her two best friends died in car wrecks. Lisa tried drugs and overeating and tried to end her own life more than once. Then someone who hardly knew her began to care for her, and she became able to put a smile in her heart where there was
once sadness …

Peggi was boy crazy from the second grade. When she found herself pregnant after “parking” the night of her high school junior prom, she considered having an abortion, but instead chose to
have her baby adopted. She delivered a healthy baby girl, whom she never saw, and she carried the sense of loss for nearly 30 years. Then one day a thick brown envelope from a lawyer arrived in her mailbox …

One of the great pleasures of traveling is to have companions headed for the same destination who can enjoy the trip with us ― so come along, and let these eloquent storytellers serve as your tour guides as you travel with them from right here in Walla Walla along the many roads of their Journeys.