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

I went to the Na Conference in Baltimore back in 1998.  At that time in my life I was in my last semester of college, and had recently come back to the Lord after a season of rebelling for most of my college years. I was desperate to know God’s forgiveness. I knew he had forgiven me, but I was having a hard time living in the fullness of His grace and believing that He saw me through the blood of Jesus: pure, holy, and righteous. I knew I needed to go to some sort of retreat or conference---something so I could meet God in a big way and hear his voice loud and clear. I know that God can speak to us right in our home, car, wherever we are...but sometimes we just need that extra encouragement that comes from events like the Na Conference. There are those moments in life where you have to hear from God, need to see Him, and are desperate for His presence that you will do anything.

That is where I was when, just a day before the conference, I bought a plane ticket from Houston (where I was living at the time) to Baltimore. This was before 9/11 when such a thing was even possible. I knew no one in Maryland, or the East Coast for that matter. I had no money for a hotel, food, or the conference fee and I am pretty sure that the conference was sold out. I arrived at the airport, rented a car, and drove straight to the event location. I missed the first few sessions and arrived just after the lunch break. But I arrived just in time for what the Lord needed to speak to my heart. I can’t remember the exact words that were said but I remember the opportunity to go to the altar. There, at the altar, the Lord met me there. I finally believed that God had forgiven me for my sexual sin and not keeping myself pure for marriage. I also believed that God allowed me to see that a godly man would still want me and that I could wait for His best for me. Through circumstances that only God could orchestrate, I was able to stay the weekend of the Na Conference with a wonderful volunteer and her mother and was even able to go to Covenant Life on Sunday morning. I would meet my husband 4 years later and am so thankful for all that God taught me during my time at Na and how it affected the course of my life. I’ve now been married 6 1/2 years to a wonderful godly man and have 3 precious little boys.