LOUISIANA
The Advocate

TERRY ROBINSON
TROBINSON@THEADVOCATE.COM
Jan. 11, 2015

Years of sexual and physical abuse didn’t conquer Angel Austin.

She found the faith to overcome that painful episode of her life and also found deliverance in Christ.

“Knowing Christ enabled me to accept what I could not change and what people had done to me. But he showed me what they did to me was not who I was; it was no fault of my own,” said Austin, the pastor of Faith to Conquer Outreach Ministries in Baton Rouge. “Knowing Christ was like finding me, and I could not find me until I got in him, and I had a reason to live then. I had a new hope.”

Austin turned that hope into a ministry that helps people who have suffered the kind of abuse she endured starting at age 8. She founded Faith to Conquer,…