Intan paused over his keyboard as the inbox chimed. The message from C, a quiet tenth-grader, carried a heavy weight in two stark words: “I’m depressed.”
For C, words were often trapped behind a wall of anxiety. While her siblings played sports, she buried herself in textbooks, preferring the safety of the sidelines. Even at home, she felt even more isolated.
She'd overhear her mother whisper her private struggles to relatives and felt that she could no longer trust anyone. At school, she worried about her friends feeling awkward around her. With very low self-esteem, she found comfort in speaking to Intan, one of our online mentors.
Slowly, through the safety of the screen, C began to type what she couldn't speak. The short, guarded updates evolved into vibrant descriptions of her dream of studying business in Japan. Best of all, the girl who felt invisible is about to stand in front of her church and get baptized, fully alive and confident in Christ.
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