How God Saved Me Series

My three friends started inviting me to church…I would continually turn them down and would give them a hard time. I didn’t see the need. After all, I was a good girl and never missed mass.

I was saved during the Alpha Course (now Bridge Course) in the winter of 2000. Back then, I dressed heavily goth and was severely depressed and suicidal. By God’s grace, he opened my heart to the gospel at the retreat, and I came home wanting to live.

I grew up in a household that I would not consider “Christian” but held some Christian morals. Around eight years old, my mother would send me to my grandparents on the weekends for church. I remember learning Bible stories that amazed me. I learned that Jesus loved us and died for our sins. Although I didn’t fully understand why Jesus died for my sins, it always stuck with me.

I grew up in a Catholic family, went to Catholic school, and had an aunt who was a nun. Sounds like I was religious, right? No! My parents didn’t go to church and they used to lie to my grandmother every Sunday about what mass they went to.