The girl's plea for help didn't make a sound.

Instead, it popped up silently in Marilyn Adamson's e-mail in-box.

It's not that I don't believe in God, because I do, and I want to believe in the stories . . . I think I need God, but I don't know how to find him. Can you help me? Wrestling with drug addiction, alcoholism and fears about a recent abortion, the 18-year-old reached out to Adamson's Web site, EveryStudent.com, in January, asking for spiritual guidance. She had never gone to church or read the Bible, she said. She had gone online to search for answers from the anonymity of her home computer.

Adamson was ready to help. From her gray revolving chair in her Orlando home office, she began a months-long correspondence with the teenager. She read painful confidences about the girl's past, referred her to a local church and taught her the fundamentals of Christianity -- all without ever meeting the girl face to face.

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