New Attitude has a new name, new lineup of speakers, and a new location. A lot is changing for 2009.

I was born in a Christian family here in Mexico, and when I was little I always said I could see Christ with me all the time. I grew up to be amazingly blessed. My life as a teen was hard, with a violent home and desperate need of love. I could not see Christ any more with me. I was alone. (Or so I thought.)

In my own selfishness I turned out to be an “almost-suicide” but for some reason there was a breaking point in my life. Yet, I still felt alone. God once told me when I was little that I was his precious treasure. I even drew him things and placed them on the roof. One day at church I was just standing there as always, not even paying attention to worship or prayer, and I saw him. There he was like when I was little. Jesus, was walking through the people, kissing them, holding them, loving them. It was Jesus telling me that it was time to go back to him.

Ever since that day God has been pulling me closer to him, yet the remorse of my past was still there. My church started to decay and it pained me and certainly did not inspire me to get closer to God. My cousin sent me an email and she invited me to Na 2008, saying it was amazing and that I should go.

I never had a more blessed trip. All Louisville was filled with an air of freedom, trust, and truth. Na 2008 meant something else, something great was out there, something that was calling up to me and saying “stop fighting me” . As John Piper talked about the fight for faith, I wrote things in my journal, drawing the things that God was speaking and in my heart something broke. God had told me it was time to forget the past and begin a future with him, that great amazing things were going to happen in my life. I was no longer that afraid little girl. I was ready to embrace my life with a whole smile towards heaven. My mother could not even grasp the amazing change in me. She rejoiced in that which was sending a little scared 19 year old, and getting back a true Christ-filled woman.

This same year I started college, and have made my life a God-centered world. Now I am using my talents for his purpose, an artist with a shepherd, no longer alone. As for me, I plan to attend Na 2009 and invite as many people as I can.