I was born the 23rd of March 1995 in Chorley, England, but I grew up in Southport. I was born into a Christian family which is a great blessing. My father was a pastor and so were my grandfathers so if I had any trouble I knew who to go to! Every Sunday I would go to church and to Sunday School, which gave me a great knowledge of the Bible. I was young and I believed in God and the Bible but I didn’t really understand who Jesus was and what it was to have eternal life. I was more interested in football; that was the number 1 thing in my life. I thought I was a Christian but I wasn’t. In April 2003 my older sister Megan died which was a huge shock. I thought I would never see her again. I was annoyed at God for what had happened. I hated it and started to go away from God. Then this year in the summer 2008 I went to an EMW camp in Wales, which I had previously been to the last few years. The chaplain, Martin Williams, was preaching on Jesus’ death and how much pain he went through. And then the he said, “Don’t go out this room without becoming a Christian! You can die at any moment; don’t make it too late.” That really hit me. I was scared, because I knew that was true - how my sister Megan had died so suddenly could happen to me as well. And if I had died suddenly in the past 13 years I would have gone to hell. So I prayed to God, believing and thanking Jesus for dying on the cross for me. Jesus died because I was a sinner and he died to save me from my sins. I felt much better after because I knew it was genuine. I was a Christian. And I realised how it will be in heaven: no pain, no hatred, no death; it will be perfect. Now that I am a Christian I have changed and am still changing from my bad ways of living. It has probably got harder with all my non-Christian friends living a different life to mine. I try my best in everything I do, like it says in Colossians 3:17: “Do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God through him.” I try to set a good example around my friends and trying to share my faith with them. It is also hard at school when it is being taught that evolution and the big bang is a fact. That really tests my faith, but the Holy Spirit is always there to help me. Therefore I am no longer scared because I am a believer in Jesus Christ and one day will be in heaven with him. Like it says in Romans 8:31: “If God is for us, who can be against us?”