Before the voyage, Laurence ( the father ) told the Los Angeles Times that he believed “the Lord is in control of everything” on Abby’s journey.
“We are born-again Christians, and we don’t make any decision just based on feeling or even on sound knowledge,” he told the Times in a video interview. “We also pray about it. The conviction of prayer and the answer to prayer has led to where we are with Abigail’s campaign.”
Abby’s mother, Marianne, told momlogic.com that the Sunderland family became Christians when their oldest son, Zac, was 4. In 2008, the 17-year-old Zac became the youngest person to complete a solo voyage around the world. This past week, he graduated from the Trinity Pacific Christian School program, a homeschool organization in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
“God was with me every nautical mile,” he said of his own historic voyage during his graduation at Calvary Community Church, according to the Star.
The fact that they are Christains is all well and good. I applaud them but what Abby did does nothing to glorify God and thats what Christianity is all about.