Alison's Testimony

This is just the story about how I came to know God, and how my spiritual life has been going since then. Okay, here we go. It's quite a funny story, actually. When I was about 7 years old, my best friend, Jenny, came home from bible camp, and she said that she had just become a christian. I thought that that was pretty cool, and she asked me if I wanted to become one. I thought, hey! Why not?? I had no idea what it meant to be a christian, or the committment it came with. I just said a prayer, and then didn't really think much about it after that. About a year later, we moved back to Lethbridge. I was so mad at my parents, because in Prince George, I had lots of friends, but in Lethbridge, everyone thought that I was a dork, and I had maybe one or two friends. My sister, Teddi, became best friends with a christian, and became a christian herself after about a year of being in Lethbridge. She invited me and my other sister, Melissa, to church every Sunday, and once in a while, I went. I didn't really like it, because I had to get up early, and it was kind of boring. You know, the typical 11 year old attitude. Well, to make a long story short, I started going to youth group a couple of years later, in grade 8, and at the end of the year, I became a christian at the year end retreat. So that's how God held me to the promise that I made 6 years before I actually followed through with it. On June 22, 1997, I got baptized at First Baptist Church in Lethbridge, Alberta. Since then, I went into an intense leadership training program at my camp, Mill Creek Camp, called the Prism Program. That brought me incredibly close to God, and I spent a lot of time trying to serve Him and do His will. But over time, I fell away from God, and made a lot of mistakes. I went to Ascent Leadership Program in the 2000/2001 school year and, although it was a Christian program, it made me even more confused about my faith and for the first time I really did not know whether to believe God existed or not. In February of 2001, I made the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life (if you want to know, ask me) and it sent me even farther down and depressed. It made me realize that I needed to change my life, but I just didn't know how to do it. So I spent the rest of that school year and the summer having God experiences and then falling back down again. Finally, after I moved to Calgary, I went to Tehilla Monday at First Alliance Church (which is at 7:30, Monday nights if you are interested) and had a life changing experience. I reaccepted God into my life, and since then I have been trying to serve Him as best as I can. And this is where I am right now. If you have any questions about God or Christianity, please email me and and I will be happy to answer them.