For Jacob Gemmell (pictured) and his friends, church had become a routine of sorts. “We just didn’t feel like church connected with us anymore,” he says. “Church seemed more of a production rather than a celebration of God.”
As the 22-year-old mother of two tried to get her friendly, rambunctious, four-year-old daughter to sit still at the dinner table, her five-year-old son sat counting. He was doing pretty well.
