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Sunday, January 5...The Youth Group attended the 2015 Winter Jam featuring Blanca, NewSong, Building 429, Jeremy Camp, For King and Country and Speaker Pastor Tony Nolan who spoke of his experiences being born to a mother who was an addict in a psychiatric ward.  He suffered severe abuse as a child, yet heard the gospel and found the love he had longed for, and ultimately became a Pastor.  He met his mother once, after he had grown as she was near death.  She had been encouraged to abort because she was in no position to raise a child, but she had refused.  Tony is a strong advocate of adoption, and promotes HOLT International Adoption (holtinternational.org).