A Word of Testimony
Hello I’m Donna and I am 14 years old. I want to start off by saying that I had the great privilege of growing up in Christian family and I am very thankful for that. When I was young, I didn’t really understand the full meaning of life. I just thought that you, you went to church on Sunday, went through life happily and that was sort of the overall plan. I was told about God but I only thought that you learned about him at Sunday school, the children’s meeting and that was it. I knew the Bible stories, learned memory verses but I never really did understand why we did this.
When I was about 6 years old we started attending Ballee Baptist. I started Sunday school there and also attended the Good News Club on a Monday night. As I was getting older I started to learn how God had sent his only Son to die for us and that I needed to be saved so that I could go to Heaven. I was constantly hearing this same message over and over and I didn’t know if anything, what I should do. Coincidently, not so many days after, I was in bed and my sister asked me, “Donna, would you like to become a Christian?” This triggered something in my mind. That week I couldn’t stop thinking about what I should do.
A few nights later, just before the Monday night Good News Club I decided to ask my parents how I could get saved. They explained what I needed to do and that night on the 22nd March 1998 I asked Jesus into my heart. At that moment I felt excitement in my heart and I couldn’t wait to start telling everyone. I told the rest of my family and I couldn’t wait until the next day when I could tell my teacher.
I grew up with an easy enough life in primary school where most of my class were Christians. I had the assurance that if I was to mention I was a Christian, there would be very few to laugh at me and lots of others to say that they were saved too. I had the biggest shock of my life when I moved to Cambridge House. Suddenly I felt alone and that I had no-one else around that was a Christian. At this point I turned to God for help and I found a great help in Philippians 4 v13: I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. This verse gave me lots of courage during school.
As the first few weeks of first year passed I soon got to know of the Scripture Union. This was where I got to meet lots of Christian friends. Most of my friends in my class weren’t Christian and they thought I was a little odd when they knew I was going to S.U to read the bible and worship God in my own lunch-time. I met quite a few Christian friends at S.U but I wasn’t too sure what to do as they were in other classes. I asked God for help and He helped me let my friends know that I was different from them. Witnessing to my friends is extremely hard but I find that reading the Bible and the encouragement from my friends that I get at church is the greatest help to me. I find that Youth Fellowship has also helped me so far as the leaders are there when you need help and encouragement.
Being a Christian has been the biggest and probably the best decision I’ve ever made and I’ve no regrets about it. God has helped me and I know will continue to help me as long as I live.