Where to start, ok so about a year ago me and my youth group went to a Christian camp called Newday (HIGHLY recommend to anyone BTW) my mate decided to bring his girlfriend who at the time wasn't a Christian.
Newday is a fairly crazy place I've seen a fair few miracles there in my time and guaranteed something completely unexpected will happen at least once every year; she and many others that year got saved
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However this had a really strange effect on her, she sort of gained a conscience to the extreme, having real difficulty just accepting the fact that God could forgive her of her sins.
The next few months were to say the least an emotional roller-coaster for her, she broke up with her boyfriend within the week both of them taking this pretty hard, he (while still a Christian) has left the youth group.
On top of that she became depressed and developed a drink problem.
With the help of our youth pastor and a little counselling she seems to have come through it. however was her 18th today and we got talking about god ect, she was at a real spiritual high and in a good mood as well.
But during her conversation she told me how her aforementioned depression was much worse than I had thought, apparently including self harm and at one point a suicide attempt. This really shocked me, she seems to bottle it up around people as she always seems happy and cheerful.
As I said before she does seem to have come through it, shes on a real spiritual high at the moment but I know from experience that it can be easy to fall to a low. Our youth pastor is leaving in a month or two to plant a church which is really bad because she confided in him during her rough period and hes basically the reason shes still alive. To make things worse a lot of the youth including her are off to university this year and I'm being alone might not help her.
Also Newday is coming up again in August and that could basically mean anything, from a cure all to making things ten times worse.
I should point out that her faith throughout is really really strong and I actually aspire to be at her level of belief, her problem is that she simply can't get over the amazing grace of God and she just doesn't feel good enough.
Any advice for this situation is great as I say shes doing great at the moment and been confiding in me and hopefully others but I'm very concerned for her and terrified that she might reach a spiritual low at some point; If you could all pray for her that would be fantastic.
Newday is a fairly crazy place I've seen a fair few miracles there in my time and guaranteed something completely unexpected will happen at least once every year; she and many others that year got saved

However this had a really strange effect on her, she sort of gained a conscience to the extreme, having real difficulty just accepting the fact that God could forgive her of her sins.
The next few months were to say the least an emotional roller-coaster for her, she broke up with her boyfriend within the week both of them taking this pretty hard, he (while still a Christian) has left the youth group.
On top of that she became depressed and developed a drink problem.
With the help of our youth pastor and a little counselling she seems to have come through it. however was her 18th today and we got talking about god ect, she was at a real spiritual high and in a good mood as well.
But during her conversation she told me how her aforementioned depression was much worse than I had thought, apparently including self harm and at one point a suicide attempt. This really shocked me, she seems to bottle it up around people as she always seems happy and cheerful.
As I said before she does seem to have come through it, shes on a real spiritual high at the moment but I know from experience that it can be easy to fall to a low. Our youth pastor is leaving in a month or two to plant a church which is really bad because she confided in him during her rough period and hes basically the reason shes still alive. To make things worse a lot of the youth including her are off to university this year and I'm being alone might not help her.
Also Newday is coming up again in August and that could basically mean anything, from a cure all to making things ten times worse.
I should point out that her faith throughout is really really strong and I actually aspire to be at her level of belief, her problem is that she simply can't get over the amazing grace of God and she just doesn't feel good enough.
Any advice for this situation is great as I say shes doing great at the moment and been confiding in me and hopefully others but I'm very concerned for her and terrified that she might reach a spiritual low at some point; If you could all pray for her that would be fantastic.