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Andy & Maggie Sorrells
 Andy Sorrells
I just want to praise our Father in Heaven for a chance at salvation. As soon as I turned 18, I hit the world at full speed. I was off to college, indulging myself with more food, more sexual sins, drug use, alcohol abuse—all sorts of evil. This, of course, turned me into an even more bitter and calloused person than I already was. On top of this, I was SO deluded in my own selfish pride that I thought everyone else was the problem. I thought they should change and I should be accepted for who I was. I was always pushing the envelope with authority and grasping for someone's attention, but claiming to not really want it. Something seemed like it was always missing from life. I was also diagnosed as a manic-depressive. That just led into more self-focus, laziness, drug abuse, and general irresponsibility.
After I began Weigh Down classes, I learned that God is very real. I know that He has, thankfully, let me live to see another day—a day where He rules, where He is the focus, and where He is God. Changing this focus, this mindset, this attitude to serve God has rid me of all of the former sins and the evil that I once delighted in. I have lost a total of 257 pounds and have never looked back. Food, nor anything else, gives me comfort or soothes my soul; this belongs to God. I praise God for the truth being taught in Weigh Down. I praise God that it is SO available to us and may we never take that for granted.
Maggie Sorrells
I want to praise God for the truth that has come from the Weigh Down Workshop. It is the only program that has ever loved me enough to tell me the WHOLE truth! I was raised up in the church and was thought to be a "good Christian girl,"but what does that mean? Well, I can tell you what it doesn’t mean. I was spoiled. I grabbed and got what I wanted when I wanted, never knowing that it is so detestable to God. I was very greedy for food, that got me to 440 pounds. I also would cut myself with a razor blade from my wrist to my elbows. I would steal and lie. I had sexual sins that make me want to throw up just remembering. I had 20 credit cards and owed over 20 thousand dollars in credit card debt alone.
I never knew until Weigh Down's teachings from the Bible, just how spoiled I was. It was so deeply rooted in my heart, that I still pray that God will scrape my heart so bare that nothing but love and devotion to him remains. It truly disgusts me to see that spoiled nature try to come up; never do I want to miss his spirit again. I used to be convicted of something days after it happened, but never enough to change. Now I want to change and never do it again. Praise God!! Praise God, I don't have to destroy his temple like I used to do again. Praise God for removing 300 pounds from my morbidly obese body!! A miracle!
Praise God he continues to teach me to be led by his spirit with the money he has blessed our family with. I praise God for being taught how to be a wife and a mother, and that he has blessed me with a godly husband and a beautiful son and daughter and true friends that tell me the truth and help when I have a need. Thank you God for Weigh Down, for this freedom, for all your blessings and for this true relationship with you!
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