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Student, Senior, Cox High School, Virginia Beach
Young Life leader
Student, Cox High School
Young Life leader & student leader at Galilee Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, VA
Father: Dirk Proffer; Has 4 siblings
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CBN.com – Kristin grew up in Richmond, Virginia and played soccer. Her parents moved to Virginia Beach when she was going into 9th grade. She was frustrated and angry about the move.
“I was angry at my parents and at God for taking away my friends,” says Kristin. She had her soccer friends at school but also hung out with a partying crowd. One of her partying friends was Amy. One summer, Amy attended a Young Life camp and gave her life to the Lord. Kristin was amazed at how different her friend had become.
“She started inviting me to church and Young Life meetings instead of to parties,” says Kristin.
One day, while Amy was out of town, Kristin went to a party and got alcohol poisoning by drinking too much. When she told Amy, Amy cried. “I was so touched that someone cared for me so much,” says Kristin. Soon she took her friend up on the offer to attend a Young Life meeting. Kristin says her faith in Jesus has been a process but knows she couldn’t have overcome her partying lifestyle without Him.
Today she is a Young Life leader and helps other teens with the tremendous pressures they face. “It’s more common to get invited to a party than to get invited to church when you’re at school,” says Kristin.
Kristin says her parents didn’t know about her drug and alcohol use until after she became a Christian.
Allison, now 17, started going to church as a little girl but the family stopped attending when she was in 3rd grade. When she was 12 years old (6th grade), Allison started drinking alcohol. In 7th grade, she started smoking pot.
“I had older friends and thought it would make me more mature,” says Allison.“I thought it was cool.”
Her parents were oblivious to her drinking and drug use. Her parents divorced when Allison was in the 8th grade which made life very difficult for Allison. She went through depression but felt like she couldn’t talk to her parents or any adult teachers at school. “I felt like I was the only one going through this.”
At the end of her freshman year in high school, Allison decided to stop drinking and using drugs. “I just wanted to show my friends I could do it,” she says. After some friends invited her, Allison went to a Young Life meeting. “I had never heard the Gospel preached like that before,” she says.
Today Allison is a youth leader in her church and also for Young Life. She says there are a lot of temptations for kids these days. “Drugs and alcohol are the only things they talk about at school.”
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