NEVER QUIT SHARING JESUS WITH CHILDREN! A TESTIMONY OF HOW HER DEVOUT CHRISTIAN NANNY LED HER TO CHRIST! Interview: The Wonder Years Actress Alley Mills on How Buddhism, Jesus Picture Led Her to Christ| BY ALEX MURASHKO The actress grew up in New York, both the city and outside the city, and was mostly raised by a caregiver. Her parents, a father that was a television executive and a mother that was a magazine art editor, were rabid atheists, she said. They later divorced. A shift in her life began, she says, when she went to a Lutheran schools church service because it was recommended that as grandparents (Mills is married to actor and author Orson Bean) who are helping to place their grandchild in the school, they should attend. There on the wall [of the church where service was held] was a very old picture of Jesus and it was the same picture that the woman who raised me, my whole childhood, had by her bed, she said. It was as if I was hit by a thunderbolt. I saw that picture and I suddenly remembered everything that I had not remembered at all about Mary (her caregiver) raising me pretty much from the age of two. She was a devout Christian. She was an African American. She kind of rescued me from a very crazy caregiver we had at that time, and always took me under her wing. Mills continued, She would rock me in her rocking chair. She had a huge Bible and would open up her Bible and read to me. And I remembered everything when I saw this picture. I remember when I used to walk to school and that Jesus was with me, that he was my friend, that I wasnt afraid anymore, because I was a very anxious child. Mary would pray with me all the time. I snuck out to Sunday school. I had my own Bible with my name on it because I sang in a school choir. My parents didnt know. She said she completely forgot about this part of her childhood probably because her parents forbade the caregiver from teaching from the Bible at a certain point. I remembered that happened in front of me when I was about six and she stopped reading me the Bible, which was awful. It must have broken her heart, Mills explained. Unfortunately, she died before I became a Christian. I am convinced she prayed for me every day. She said the transition from Buddhism to Christianity at the point of remembering her past seemed logical.
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