The Next Life

"You'd hate to think that they'd bury you in the ground and then you're forgotten. I tell children, 'look up there. There's where you are going.' I believe in God because it's true. I don't care if you are a Lutheran, Protestant or whatever, if you don't have trust in God who are you gonna' trust?"
Helen (mentor)

"I've never been a church member but I do believe in God and I do go to church occasionally but most the time I'd rather go fishin or huntin."
Tony (mentor)

"I believe when you die you go to heaven to be with the people you love and live with them eternally and watch over people. I believe in a creator who made the world but sometimes I just don't know. It's kind of hard to believe in something that's never been seen but, yes, I think I believe in God as my father and Jesus as my savor but I'm not a real religious person at all."Shannon (mentee)

"I don't know if there is another life but I think whatever happens is gonna' happen so why worry?"Dan (mentee)

"I do not believe in life after death. I think that when I'm dead I go in the ground then the worms come in. I am not affected in any way by the idea of life after death."
Devon (mentee)

"The highest motivation there is is believing that there is more to it than this. If someone doesn't believe in something spiritual they might as well end it. That's sad, I shouldn't say that...if people are in a state like that they got to talk to somebody. Talk to somebody who does believe in something. I remember a when I used to help the electrician, Larry, and when he'd be working on something that was broken I would say, 'All material things by there very nature break down into their component parts except man's soul which has no parts. It, therefore, goes on forever.' So, he'd be working on something and he'd say, 'What was that you say about things breaking down, again?'"
Bill (mentor)

"I believe in heaven and I believe in God, it doesn't really affect my life too much though...I guess in a way it affects the way I live now."
Sean (mentee)

"I believe in a next life because I find it hard to believe that when we die that's it, there's no more."Erin (mentee)