Ever since I was born, I have been attending church. Every week I would go to church, but I never knew the true purpose of going. I thought that church was a place to hang out, to make new friends, or to talk and catch up with your friends who I didn’t get to see often. With the help of parents, Sunday School teachers, and AWANA and VBS leaders, I learned more about God, Jesus, church, salvation, sin, and being a Christian. I learned how Jesus was God’s Son and that He sent Jesus down to Earth to save us from our sins and unrighteousness, that He was the Great Messiah and He would save me from going to hell and some other basics of Christianity. After accepting Christ as my personal savior in 3rd grade, walking down the aisle, and taking the Discovery class, I was baptized in 5th grade; I don’t think I fully understood what it meant. It defiantly showed in my actions, I didn’t change one bit of my life.

I was convicted of my not changed life during D-camp after 6th grade and I realized I needed to change my life. The speaker really made me think twice about my faith, if I really was a Christian, or if I just played the church game. Our speaker kept talking about how our lives were to be “transformed” when we became a Christian, that the old life is gone and we should be a new creation. Since then, I think that my life has been changed, but by no means am I a perfect person; I’m far from it. After all these years of claming that I was a Christian, D-camp helped me to realize that I really need to be serious about my faith and digging deeper into God’s Word.

I’ve been tested many times to see how serious and strong I am in my faith. I’m challenged daily, and I also fail daily, but I know that if I ask God for forgiveness, He will cleanse me of my sins completely just like that. Jesus is my Savior and I know that He will forgive me of any sins I have committed and are going to commit.

Lately, I’ve tried to spend more time with God and in His Word. It is difficult for me to make time to spend with Him and for me to even focus. I defiantly have struggled with this along with other things like school and friends, but I know that in the end, everything that happens is all part of God’s great and amazing plan.