Hello everyone I just joined this forum so I figured I'll give my testimony.
Well to start things off my name is David and I'm 18 years old about to be 19
Grew up with my dad, mom and older brother. Played hockey my whole life on a travel team and all that. Loved riding dirt bikes. But all that changed one day when I was at my friends house right after my freshman year of HS and my mom came knocking on the door telling me I need to come home now. So I went home and come to find out my mom said she was leaving my dad. I was shocked, yea they argued and all but I would never think they would split. So the very next day me, my mom and my brother are living in a 3 bedroom apartment. About a half a year went by and I was playing in a hockey tournament when she brings her new BF by and I met him. He started bringing her to church and she wouldn't stop bugging me to go so maybe once every other month I would give in and go. Then days before my junior year in HS we moved in with him and I started going to church more often. Then last summer the youth director and another guy from the church kept begging me to go to camp with them in august. I just kept saying I'll think about it but in my mind I was laughing so hard thinking why would I want to go to some up tight no fun church camp with all these no fun up stuck people. But for some reason I decided to go.
So the camp is called Camp Jacob in Clintwood VA. It was a ton of fun. The messages were awesome and the 2nd night we were in the building we had our messages in for hours!!! People just kept hugging each other and crying and all this stuff and I was just standing there looking around trying to figure out what was going on and why is everyone crying?! Well that night around 10pm I asked one of the guys who was trying to get me to go to camp if I could talk with him, thats when I got saved outside my cabin at church camp.
Well ever sense then I've been going to church every Sunday morning / night and Wednesday night. And when ever they have special events going on. If you told me 2 or 3 years ago I would be going to church like this and even listening to gospel music I would of laughed at you and said you were insane.
Now most of my friends I still hang out with are pretty much atheists and every time I have ask them about church they just laugh and make fun.
I'm also trying to get my older brother to come to church. He is about to turn 23 and said he got saved the one time he went to church with my cousin but I really doubt that. He parties a lot (smokes drinks and all of that). He is also about to moved back in with us so hopefully I can get him to come with us at least one sunday and work our way from there like my mom did with me.
So there you have it, I guess? Hopefully I typed good enough so you all can read and understand what I said. I'm sure I missed out a lot but I got the main stuff in there.
Well to start things off my name is David and I'm 18 years old about to be 19
Grew up with my dad, mom and older brother. Played hockey my whole life on a travel team and all that. Loved riding dirt bikes. But all that changed one day when I was at my friends house right after my freshman year of HS and my mom came knocking on the door telling me I need to come home now. So I went home and come to find out my mom said she was leaving my dad. I was shocked, yea they argued and all but I would never think they would split. So the very next day me, my mom and my brother are living in a 3 bedroom apartment. About a half a year went by and I was playing in a hockey tournament when she brings her new BF by and I met him. He started bringing her to church and she wouldn't stop bugging me to go so maybe once every other month I would give in and go. Then days before my junior year in HS we moved in with him and I started going to church more often. Then last summer the youth director and another guy from the church kept begging me to go to camp with them in august. I just kept saying I'll think about it but in my mind I was laughing so hard thinking why would I want to go to some up tight no fun church camp with all these no fun up stuck people. But for some reason I decided to go.
So the camp is called Camp Jacob in Clintwood VA. It was a ton of fun. The messages were awesome and the 2nd night we were in the building we had our messages in for hours!!! People just kept hugging each other and crying and all this stuff and I was just standing there looking around trying to figure out what was going on and why is everyone crying?! Well that night around 10pm I asked one of the guys who was trying to get me to go to camp if I could talk with him, thats when I got saved outside my cabin at church camp.
Well ever sense then I've been going to church every Sunday morning / night and Wednesday night. And when ever they have special events going on. If you told me 2 or 3 years ago I would be going to church like this and even listening to gospel music I would of laughed at you and said you were insane.
Now most of my friends I still hang out with are pretty much atheists and every time I have ask them about church they just laugh and make fun.
I'm also trying to get my older brother to come to church. He is about to turn 23 and said he got saved the one time he went to church with my cousin but I really doubt that. He parties a lot (smokes drinks and all of that). He is also about to moved back in with us so hopefully I can get him to come with us at least one sunday and work our way from there like my mom did with me.
So there you have it, I guess? Hopefully I typed good enough so you all can read and understand what I said. I'm sure I missed out a lot but I got the main stuff in there.
