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You Bring The Story. We Bring the Crayons.
We have always been fascinated by the idea of Christianity as a journey that doesn’t always color inside the lines…
but nevertheless it is VIBRANT!
Our stories, like a tapestry woven together, not only show the accomplishments of our God, but they show the GRACE of our Savior and the Power of His Spirit!
So, Color in the B&W stereotype of RELIGION!
Share Your Story.
Join the Bola|Project Family.
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ANA -
I would rather be JUDGED…
Jesus found the judgement of humanity when He came to Earth.
We find the judgement of Christianity everywhere we go.
The MOST important Jesus ever gave us was the 11th commandment:
TO LOVE!
So I assure you, that any extravagant, loud, extreme form of LOVE that we have for our savior WILL be offensive to some…
but I challenge all of you today…
Just as LOUD should our LOVE be for others as it is for our Creator!
Love God EXTRAVAGANTLY = Love People EXTRAVAGANTLY
This is just as sweet to hear in the Heavens!

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Once upon a time there was a boy.
This boy thought he knew all the answers at a very young age.
One day he found himself stepping off a solid foundation onto one made of sand.
Except this sand was quick.
Soon he began to sink and sooner than he could even realize, he was over his head in the muck.
Many people turned his back on him.
Some even offered things to help him mask the pain of being stuck…
but even with all the distraction he knew he had to get himself out.
It took a while, but slowly he grew strong in the LORD.
His calf muscles grew strong.
& he got himself out of the trap that was put there to end him.
He couldn’t have got out if it weren’t for God’s grace & the angels sent to him along the way.
Grace is freely given. Freedom is a Choice.
Choose Freedom Today.
-BOLA|project
PhotoCred: TDP - Tabitha Dalton Photography

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Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) - Hillsong United

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Taylor -
Remember there is nothing TOO BIG for Our God to forgive.
We stray sometimes, but if you keep beating yourself up about what happened before GOD changed you, then you are letting the enemy rob you of the very same JOY that God has freely given to you!
If No One else says it… WE LOVE YOU!
Because of your boldness to proclaim this.
Because of your commitment to Christ.
Because of the beautiful calling to be LOVE & LIGHT on this earth.
People are waiting with their hands bound… reaching out for someone to proclaim freedom to them. Freedom from the very same thing God delivered you of!
GO!
Declare FREEDOM to God’s people.
Galations 5:
“Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.”

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Ryan - Ohio
Sometimes the hardest part about God’s plan for our life is…
the waiting.
When we feel like we are going nowhere and feeling our way in the dark, it is THEN that God is preparing our hearts for the big thing he has next!
The fact that you are concerned if you are in God’s will for your life or not, shows that you are striving after it.
You were CALLED for this.
You were MADE for this moment in history.
Your TIME will come!
This is NOT the end!
- BOLA|project

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Taylor -
Remember there is nothing TOO BIG for Our God to forgive.
We stray sometimes, but if you keep beating yourself up about what happened before GOD changed you, then you are letting the enemy rob you of the very same JOY that God has freely given to you!
If No One else says it… WE LOVE YOU!
Because of your boldness to proclaim this.
Because of your commitment to Christ.
Because of the beautiful calling to be LOVE & LIGHT on this earth.
People are waiting with their hands bound… reaching out for someone to proclaim freedom to them. Freedom from the very same thing God delivered you of!
GO!
Declare FREEDOM to God’s people.
Galations 5:
“Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.”

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Joel, Georgia
Because He is with US! We will not FEAR!
2 timothy 1:7
“For God has not given us the spirit of FEAR, but of Power, Love and a sound mind!”

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Kylie -

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Elly’s Story -
“About 2 months ago my parents split up,
I had a problem telling people about it because I didn’t want my family to be judged.
People come up to me every day, people i don’t even really know, asking me if i was okay.
All i wanted was my friends.
I would bawl my eyes out every night because this by far is the hardest thing I’ve went through.
But then i realized all i have to do is give it to Jesus and he has it all under control.Some friends will fail you but you always have Jesus right by your side no matter what you go through.
He will always love you!”

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“I have an alcohol problem”
“ I am a product of what alcoholism can do to families.
My parents, my brother, my abusive brother-in-law/ to my sister.
Parents taking me to bars to hang out with foul men hanging around me as a child.
Mother passed out on the couch.
Strangers in and out of our home.
Mother and Father drunk, screaming, yelling, and hitting one another.
The fear that overcame us as children when we didn’t know which parent to expect: The normal one or the beating each other up so we have to run 5 blocks to our aunts house for safety, or the parents that bust bottles and try to cut each other open in the back, or the parent that takes too many pills mixed with alcohol and convulses on the floor while we were trying to do our homework.
Substance abuse by my parents ended up driving me out of my home at age 12.
My older sister got out and got me out. So why when I became a teenager did I experiment with alcohol and drugs? Was it a patterned or imprinted behavior? Was it peer pressure?
It was only after I had my children and God helped me worked through the junk that I really dealt with it.
Home should be a safe haven with parents representing safety. The abuse changed our dynamic and tainted our outlook.
I have overcome this and will keep it bottled up in a better spirit.”
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If you need help with Alcohol Abuse please do not be the victim or the abuser!
Contact your local Alcoholics Anonymous or Child Abuse clinics!

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Makenna - Richmond, VA
“My dad never physically left myself or my family, but he was never (and still isn’t) emotionally there. In college, I’ve done numerous studies about the correlation of love felt from a woman’s father to her romantic relationships and how it affects her securities about herself. I let these insecurities get the best of me for a very, very long time…I didn’t have a man in my life to tell me how boys were supposed to treat me, or that I was beautiful…or that I deserved the best.. or even that he was proud of me. I gave pieces of myself away to different males in my life, hoping that I would fill the void that my dad left in return. I felt empty, unfulfilled, and used…and I was certainly never good enough.
Within the past year, I found out that I DO have a dad that cares- my Father in Heaven. The moment I read Psalm 139, my heart melted, and I felt so much joy to hear that I was loved even BEFORE I got here on Earth…and that there is a plan for me. God cherishes and loves me as His own daughter, and HE is proud of me. I don’t ever need to seek out attention anywhere else, because He will make me whole again; and He has.”
Psalm 139 (The Message) -
God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I’m an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I’m never out of your sight. You know everything I’m going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you’re there, then up ahead and you’re there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful— I can’t take it all in! Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, you’re there! If I go underground, you’re there! If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon, You’d find me in a minute— you’re already there waiting! Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I’m immersed in the light!” It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you. Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them— any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers—out of here!— all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations. See how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance; I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies!
Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I’m about; See for yourself whether I’ve done anything wrong— then guide me on the road to eternal life.

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