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A Spiritual Journey Every year, dozens of Legacy students make the monumental decision to commit their lives to Christ and show this symbolically by being baptized. Some people make this commitment in front of just their family, some do it with a small group of friends and loved ones. Recently, Kadynce Matsuoka ’24 was baptized in front of a packed sanctuary at Providence Church in Frisco. She was supported by her family, many of her close friends, and several Legacy staff, and even fellow Legacy student Ashley Webb ’24, who was baptized that same day.
Not all roads to baptism are smoothly paved, and Kadynce’s took some detours. She recalls attending church starting around the fifth grade, while living in California. She says she never felt connected to the people or to the material being taught. It felt like a waste of time, she says, and lacked any depth. She says she considered the heart of the people to be shallow, and it all felt like a big facade: people seemed to go to church because they were “supposed to.” Two years ago, her family moved to Texas, she found her home at Legacy, and her world hasn’t been the same since. Her first Bible class, as a 9th-grader, was biblical culture shock, she says, as they dove right into Judges, which is a heavy book even for a scholar. “I remember thinking How much do I not know?” she says now. She remembers feeling somewhat mortified but also mildly intrigued. Let’s face it, moving from California to Texas brings culture shock in general, but when you throw a biblical shock on top of that, it can be, well, shocking.
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Kadynce sharing her testimony before being baptized