Testimonies

Last updated (3rd October 2004)

Q. So hi guys, how's things?

D. Not bad, just chilling, enjoying a beer. Hally?

H. Yeah, reclining and drinking a beer. You realise we're about to tell you a really cheesy love story, worse than Romeo and Juliet.

Q. Oh dear... So, what exactly are your testimonies before you met?

D. Hmm... Well, I went to a Church of England school as a kid, and would have committed my life to God at 11 if a girl hadn't hurt me badly. I went through my teenage years not knowing God, and entered college not wanting to know about Him. A lot of my friends at college were Christians and they prayed hard for me. I got into the music of Delirious, knowing that they were Christian but I like their music. My friends asked me to come to a Delirious gig, and just before the gig started a youth worker asked if anyone wanted to commit their life to Jesus. Before I know it, I was on the stage. The next year (I was 17) was spent in an almost cult-like church, not the best part of my life... I met someone who I thought had a real thirst for God, but she actually ruined my faith. I turned away from God at 19, and didn't find him till I was 22, 2 years after the girl, who became my wife, left me.

H. I first decided that I wanted God to be part of my life at the age of 11. My mum and Dad had shoved us off on a Scripture Union camp, at boarding school in Seven Oaks Kent. I could see Jesus' love all around me, and I wanted to be a part of that. A year I went to a Pathfinder event in York with some friends from school. The leader asked 'Who here is a Christian?' and I put my hand up.

Q. Is that it Hally?

H. There's not much to report up until I was 16, but to fill in the gaps, I was a key member of my local parish church, and helped run the Causeway group (see links). At 16 I made my first real goof up, I put my love life in between God, and in all honesty, its taken me till now sort things out. I wandered aimlessly from one relationship with one non-Christian to several others, letting myself get further and further from God. Not a clever thing to do.

Q. So, how did you two meet?

D. We'd both joined a Christian dating site at low points in our life, and met on the chat system of the site. We got talking, started flirting, and at some point, I was foolish enough to ask her out...

H. Yeah, I found a dating site in a fit of depression after being dumped yet again. In an attempt to kill myself, I turned to God and prayed that God would find me someone who understood. I met dUm within a week, and I made the first move, chatting to him about his son, when he made a comment about my favourite song.

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