A member of our congregation explains what it means to her to be a Christian.



Good news?

Is there any when you feel rejected and unloved by your parents?

When you feel all alone in the world.

When you fail exams and nobody cares.

When choices made lead to trouble.

When boy/girl relationships go so wrong.

When it seems your life has no joy.

Good news – about a God that loves you - that’s a laugh!

All of the above have been a part of my life. I knew of God from an early age as my parents were Catholics. I went to a convent junior school in Zimbabwe, going through the motions of confession and mass and communion with little understanding or enthusiasm.

At high school I went with a friend to an African evangelical church. Wow! What joy they had - despite many hardships. This was the beginning of discovering “what a friend I have in Jesus”.

Reading the bible, allowing what you read to sink in, praying for God to reveal evidence of himself, coming to God broken-hearted because of all the hurt caused by you and to you, is all part of the process of having our lives changed by the one true living God. All of this takes time, and willingness to be changed by God, involving many tears and with help from true Christian friends.

Since those early teenage days, I have truly had an adventure following Jesus and am at present part of God's family at Smithton Free Church.

My prayer for anyone reading this is that all of us “will be transformed by the renewing of our minds, able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12, verse 2). May God bless you in your search for him.