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Everyone has a story to tell. For most of us in Bethel, our favourite stories are the ones that remind us that God knows us, loves us and changes us for the better. Here are some of those stories. (You might also enjoy some of the stories of our friends, too.)

“If Jesus has done all that for me, I will follow him”

Hubert

“Working and drinking — that was my life”

Brian

“So many times I thought, ‘That sermon was just for me’”

Lorna

“I started to see I wasn't the nice guy I thought I was”

Keith

“Life was going the way I wanted it to. I had plenty of money and was very philosophical. I thought if everyone just smoked dope, then the world would be a happier place.”

Nigel

“I realised God loved me and wanted me back”

Debra

“I knew that if I didn't get right with God, I wasn't going to heaven”

Stuart & Jan

“I started to attend Bethel church and really felt that God was drawing me back to himself. I started to feel happy again.”

Marlene

“Something better than this life can ever offer”

Siân

“Unlike alcohol, success or sport, turning to Jesus has brought me true and lasting happiness”

Colin

“I did not think submitting my life to God would be the most exciting thing in the world. But now it feels like I’m finally alive and nothing else compares.”

Esther

“I realised that I had been born a sinner, and going to church did not make you a Christian”

Jack

“I couldn't believe that I’d gone to chapel all my life but I wasn't a Christian”

Eleanor

“I wasn't wholly committed to Christ. I only gave part of my heart and I kept part for myself.”

John

“I’m not perfect but I know I can ask God for forgiveness and he helps me.”

Mary

“I wanted forgiveness and heaven, but I thought doing what God wanted would make me unhappy”

Anna


Friends of Bethel

“We set our standards, but when you get there, it doesn't fulfil what you think it will.”

Garin Jenkins

“Our Christian faith has helped us every single day – if we hadn’t known that God is with us even in the most difficult times, we would probably never have been able to cope. ”

Alison and Kevin

“I felt that God was calling me to speak out against Robert Mugabe ”

Henry Olonga

“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.”

Alison Stewart

“God has kept me and given me strength through some very difficult times”

Kath Hamm

“He tried to kill me — but when I met him, I liked him”

Billy Burns

“'Pan-Am Flight 103 has exploded'… the unthinkable slowly expanded, filling not only our minds but every nerve and cell of our bodies… That’s Helga’s flight.”

John Mosey

“Suddenly a masked man smashed through the driver’s window with an iron bar and began beating Dad to death. There was nothing Dad could do — he was trapped in his own seat, receiving blow after blow. And it was there he died, suffocating on his own blood.”

Tamar Pollard

Stuart & Jan’s story

“I knew that if I didn't get right with God, I wasn't going to heaven”

I really tried to get a better life but I just couldn’t. Then a man called Ceri Jenkins one day asked me to go to a Christian meeting. I went along thinking this would be a laugh but I heard how Jesus loved me even though I’d been a rebel against him. I felt the urgency of getting right with God knowing that Jesus was coming back. I knew that if I didn’t I wasn’t going to heaven. That night I prayed God would change me and for the first time I felt clean!
Read more of Stuart & Jan’s story
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