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Velvet
My name is Velvet and I’m 25 years old. I grew up in an abusive, alcoholic and drug-infested home. My mom insisted that my siblings and I go to church so…
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The stories
behind the miles.
Every name represents a door knocked, a seat filled, and a life touched by someone who kept showing up.
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Pastor Steve Brown
I am a pastor of a Baptist church in Livonia, Michigan. In high school I met a young girl that later became my wife. She was reached through the bus…
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Hazel Tolosa
In the 1960′s, I was a bus kid from Spring Lake, Michigan. I had moved to the small town and didn’t know anyone. The girl down the street invited me to…
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Lynn Hileman
My name is Lynn Hileman; and in 1973, in Hudson, New Hampshire, a bus worker knocked on our door. I was thirteen years old at the time. My brothers and…
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A life in motion
Joe Laughlin
My name is Joe Laughlin, and I'm a bus kid. At 5 years of age, while living in the projects of southwest Los Angeles, two men in suits knocked on our…
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A life in motion
Jessica Rodriguez
I was five years of age when I started riding the church bus at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. My mom, stepdad and I had moved to California in October…
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A life in motion
Angel Medrano
I can’t even begin to think where my life would be had it not been for the bus ministry! My name is Angel Medrano; I live in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. My…
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A life in motion
Vincent Williams
In the early 1970′s, I was one of six children living on my parent’s dairy farm in upstate, Sherburne, New York. We were a poor family living way out in…
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A life in motion
Keith Clark
My name is Keith, and I’m a bus kid. I thank God for the bus ministry. It was through the bus ministry, almost a decade ago, that I trusted Christ as my…
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A life in motion
Russell Brock
My family moved to Oklahoma when I was nearly three years old. My dad was a drunkard and my mother not far from that. The church people from Windsor Hills…
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A life in motion
Jerry White
When I was 14 years-old, a bus captain knocked on my family’s door and led my mom to Christ. Every week, bus workers would come and invite my family to…
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A life in motion
Andrew Rodgers
My mom was in the US Army and got married. She had my older brother, but when they found out that I was on the way, her husband left Mom, Chris and me…
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A life in motion
Jolene Sloan
When I was born, my parents were twenty years of age and unsaved. My mother abused me when I was only a year old. She burned my hands with hot tap water…
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John Stalions
I was six years old when I saw my first church bus. I was riding my bike down the street on a Sunday morning when I noticed a bus across the street at my…
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A life in motion
Eugenio Muniz
In 2003, we lived on Latham Street in Mountain View, California. Two ladies came by our apartment one day and invited my wife and 2-year-old son to ride…
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A life in motion
Susan Rojas
My life was in ruins, and my husband and I were on the verge of divorce. My husband wanted our kids to go to church, but I wasn’t sure. Had it not been…
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A life in motion
Joseph Honrada
I was saved as a result of teen soul winning in 2001. A week later, a bus worker showed up at my door. At first, I did not want to go. However, the bus…
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Todd Howard
Fourteen years ago last month, my family was homeless and I was in jail. As do many inmates, I prayed. I told God that when and if I got out I would take…
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A life in motion
Maria Donato
As a child playing outside, a bus worker stopped by my house and told me of a really exciting and fun place where we could play games, receive prizes, and…
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A life in motion
Sam Ali
My name is Sam, and I’m a bus kid. My first time on the bus was on a big day called Hot Dog Sunday! A bus worker came by my door one day. With a friendly…
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A life in motion
Pastor Jayson Garcia
My name is Jayson, and I’m a bus kid who grew up without a dad in a drug-infested home filled with violence and immorality. Had it not been for faithful…
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A life in motion
Bill Manley
Hi, I’m Bill and I’m not a bus kid. However, if the North Valley Baptist Church did not have a bus ministry, we may have never found out about this church…
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A life in motion
Laura Casillas
Hi, I’m Laura and I’m a bus kid. Two college-aged ladies took the time to knock the doors in the area where I lived. I was playing outside with my little…
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A life in motion
Chris Kissell
My name is Chris, and I’m a bus kid. Had it not been for faithful bus workers, Rudy & Linda Reyes, I never would have come to church as a 7th-grade boy. I…
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Jim Carey
My name is Jim, and I’m a bus kid. I remember that first Sunday morning when, as a six-year-old boy, I rode the bus in Rockford, Illinois, to a simple…
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Daisy Reyes
I’m Daisy and I’m a bus kid. At first, my parents used the bus as a free baby-sitting service, sending me as a four-year old girl each week with my older…
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Shirley Davis
My name is Shirley and I’m a ten-year old bus kid. I live in a run-down apartment building in Hammond, Indiana. Our family just moved here from Tennessee,…
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