TeenConnect: My church September 12, 2022

So this is why I go to Sunday School

Lona Ingwerson

Originally appeared online in the teen series My Church - June 21, 2022

AARON CRANFORD — STAFF

It was a stormy Kansas night. My date and I were headed to the next town over when rain started coming down so fiercely that we knew we couldn’t go any further. We actually slid off the side of the road into the mud, and stayed there while it rained and rained and rained.

I knew the rain would stop eventually. But if I got home late, I couldn’t guarantee I’d ever be allowed to go on another date, and it looked as though we were destined to stay there all night. There were no other cars on the road, cellphones hadn’t been invented yet, and I knew how worried my parents would be.

I knew how worried my parents would be.