An encounter with God

Jacob (31) and Jonah (28) Coyne grew up in the church at Life Center Tacoma in Tacoma, Washington, but admit they didn’t take their faith seriously. Their parents were experiencing marital trouble, Jacob was struggling with shame and suicidal ideation, and Jonah was wrestling with deep-seated fear. 

Then their father Chad started attending a men’s Bible study to see if it could help him salvage his marriage. The brothers remember this clearly—they were together in the basement when their dad came home from the study, smiling. Something about him was radically different, something they would come to understand was an encounter with God. 

“You could almost feel it. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was the presence of God,” Jonah remembers...