I grew up as a Christian, I grew up thinking everyone was supposed to love everyone even our enemies, I grew up thinking we were support one another, spread happiness and be one as a Christian family. But in the past years I have felt the complete opposite from other christians around me, I feel so judged, so belittled and unwanted in my own church. My sister and I have been teaching Sunday school for the kindergarten class room for a few years now and all of a sudden we hardly ever get to teach because they have added more teachers taking our time away from the kids and when we do get to teach someone is in there with us as if they don’t trust us to do a good job, they tell us how to do everything, they think we can’t control the kids. They judge us, by how we dress (we wear modern dresses, at least knee length very modest) and we wear makeup and dye our hair. Today we even got called fat!! Every time I go to church I feel so judged, no one smiles or talks to us, and we never get any appreciation from the church for all our hard work. I just never thought a church would ever make me and my family feel so down and bad about ourselves. We already struggle with self love, and when people judge our us it makes it even harder to love ourselves.

Edit: my sister and I resigning from teaching Sunday school, as much as we will miss it we decided we didn’t like being treated the way we were, and I am currently looking for a new home church, thank you for all the advice and support :).