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Alison Stewart’s story

We’ve invited Christians from all over the country to visit Bethel and share their own stories with us. Alison Stewart visited us in November 2010 and told us this story.

I opened a Bible and the words “the truth will set you free” just stared at me. The next eighteen months were the best in my life.

Abused, broken home, rebellious, fostered, sectioned and criminal are just some of the words Alison uses when talking about her past.

‘I reached eighteen and lost job after job. I soon got caught up in the drug world and became addicted to heroin. But by the time I was thirty, I just wanted to be clean. I was five and a half stone and I just wanted to be clean.

‘This lady from Teen Challenge, a Christian organisation that helps people like me, came to see me. She said that Jesus was the solution to my problem. I thought “What a joke!” but I wanted to be free and I’d already tried everything else so I gave Teen Challenge a go.

‘They were different to any other kind of rehab. They were kind and it was more like a home than a clinic but staying was optional. Within those first two days, I opened a Bible and the words “the truth will set you free” just stared at me. The next eighteen months were the best in my life. I left rehab a Christian and completely clean. Jesus was the solution to my problem. He had changed my life.’

This is a recording of Alison telling her story in Bethel. Why not listen and hear how God turned around her life?

http://www.bethel-clydach.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Alison-interview.mp3
Alison Stewart’s story is unique, but that experience of God’s care and life-changing power is something that we in Bethel can certainly relate to. God is still at work. All around the world — and even in Clydach — He is changing lives for the better. Why not find out for yourself what God can do?
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Each Wednesday at 7:00pm we meet together for a bible study, and to pray. The bible studies are led by our pastor, Mark, or one of the other members of the church, and the prayer time is open to everyone.
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