Three years ago Samantha Steves felt as if she were in a “dark black hole.”
At the time, the 23-year-old Catholic was grieving the loss of her grandpa and her childhood cat. Her friends had moved away for college. It felt as if she had no friends at church either, and she wanted to stop going altogether.
Steves has Down syndrome. Although she was involved in programs for kids with disabilities through school and church, she longed to enjoy such fellowship into her adulthood…