Jet's Story

At the moment I live with my Mum and I have three sisters, but I am the only Christian. When I was quite young, I started to go to Holiday Bible Club at Chertsey Street Baptist Church (CSBC) and then as I got older I attended Tuesday Club. I really had a lot of fun there but I didn't really expect to learn much because I went mainly to have fun.

As I grew older, I moved up to the next group (Activ8). This was also a lot of fun and I had lots of mates there.  I learned a lot but I didn’t fully understand the importance of it.

Once again, at the appropriate age, I moved up to the next group (Young People’s Fellowship). It was also a lot of fun but the talks were beginning to hit home more and, because I was a little older, I understood them better and felt more able to apply them to my own life.

At about this time, a friend took me to a club at another church. I started to look back at my life and really didn’t like it. I saw more and more sin in it that I wanted to get rid of but I didn’t know how to. I knew that Jesus came to save me from my sin but I didn’t know how to get his forgiveness.  But, a few weeks later I heard a talk on the reasons to become a Christian and how I could become one, and that God sent his Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for us. I was shocked and it really hit home to me that I needed to become a Christian. We were invited into a side room so I went in and asked the leader to pray with me, and then I committed myself to the Lord.

Growing in confidence

Since then it has sometimes been hard to be a Christian.  I think I was my own worst enemy throughout the rest of school because I was so scared to tell my friends that I was a Christian because I was worried about what they would think, that I might be rejected or laughed at.

God has been kind because he has stuck by me through all my struggles. Through many years he has slowly given me more confidence to stand out as a Christian - it hasn’t been easy but is slowly getting easier.

I am at college and it is still hard but I have to keep remembering that God is there and He will continue to help me grow closer to Him and will always be by my side. I just have to thank Him for that. I keep looking back at my life and I am amazed. It could have gone a different way, but it hasn’t. Instead it has gone according to God’s plan. I trust Him to keep working in my life and I pray that I can keep putting Him at the centre of my life.