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Why Dean & Susie are here... Susan and I (Dean) both come from non Christian backgrounds. I was raised by good parents that didn't drink much, worked hard, stayed married and gave a lot. I am grateful for my parents and I miss them a lot. They were a little older when I was born and although they loved me very much, they didn't put a lot of time into me. At least that's what it seems to me. Perhaps that's one of the reasons I strayed when I was younger. I began drinking, partying when I was in my teens. Smoking to be cool and doing drugs as the party life grew. I continued this until the age of 22 when it all came crashing down. It is then a Christian sat with me in my parents front yard and told me about Jesus. I didn't accept it all then but it stuck with me. As my party life led to heart ache and mental depression, I asked the Lord to help me. He did... I began reading the Bible immediately and read the New Testament completely through. It really spoke to me. I continued reading and studying sporadically for a few years until Susan and I attended a Calvary Chapel service. We had been invited by a couple, friends we had known for years that had recently given their lives to Jesus. It was at that Sunday morning service Susan gave her life to Jesus and I got serious. Susan is from a divorced family. As many of you know it can be devastating to young children when their parents divorce. With a mom that was trying desperately to survive and a father hundreds of miles away, Susan began to party at the young age of 9. Her mother remarried to a wonderful man named Fred. Through a hard chance of fate, Fred's ex-wife dropped off their 3 kids for the day and never came back. So with Susan and her 2 siblings and Fred's 3 youngsters there was now 6 mouths to feed plus mom and Dad. The stress in managing all these relationships drove Susan to party more, become promiscuous at a young age and eventually she felt so alone... she attempted suicide. At the young age of 15 Susan met Dean, who was then 23. Although Dean had a relationship with Jesus, that relationship was not yet strong. And Susan was not yet a Christian. Both Susan and Dean were sick of the party lifestyle but still very young. continued on the right...
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