EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J.- Michelle Burgess was seeking comfort shortly after her father was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. She wasn't sure if it would come from friendship or religion. Then her teenaged baby sitter suggested she attend Shore Fellowship in Egg Harbor Township.

"The first couple of services I went to, it felt like it was directly for me and it felt like they knew why I was there and needed to hear what I heard," Burgess, 34, said. "I grew up Catholic, and I was going to church hungry and I would leave starving."

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