When Rebekah Taylor was in the ninth grade, her dad got a new job and they moved to a new church.

“It was a big transition for me,” Taylor said. “My old church was much smaller, and when I moved here, I knew maybe three families.”

But then something happened that made Taylor “more open to making new friends,” she said. Jamie McGlaughn, who serves on the Women on Mission leadership team at MeadowBrook Church in Gadsden — Taylor’s new church — suggested she go to Complete, an annual event for girls in grades 7–12 put on by Alabama Woman’s Missionary Union.

Taylor went, and she said she was forever impacted by hearing from missionaries and others who were living their lives full-out for Christ. In addition to that, she found a community of people from across the state who want to live their lives similarly.

“Going through Complete made me more confident in myself to go out and make new friends and share the gospel with people,” she said. “It’s given me more confidence, and I think it’s done the same thing for my friends as well.”

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.