For my entire life, my family has been involved in the church and I’ve been going to church for as long as I can remember. Yet, attending church wasn’t something that I had taken with much significance as a child. Sure, I learned about Jesus, but church to me was a place to have fun, like when Auntie Carol banned the word “park”, we would continue to ask to go to the slidey-place instead. And although in Sunday school we were taught morals and how to act, as a kid, I still joined in on creating trouble with the other kids, even though I was selfish and didn’t want to get reprimanded.

My views on church and Christ continued to stay superficial until grade 8 and grade 9, when I first attended TC. I don’t really know what it was, and I can’t say this for everyone, but TC impacted me and my faith; seeing and being surrounded by people fired up for Christ, I guess you could say that my own faith had started to become more tangible and considerable. But that was it; it “started” to become.

You see, I had a tough time writing out my testimony because I didn’t have any point in time where I was miraculously changed, or experienced a specific act of God as one might expect from an inspirational testimony of coming into Christianity. And although I like to specifically use TC as a single point where I experienced great change, even though it has significantly impacted my life.

I still continued to grow after the conference, and am still changing today. For example, my involvement in my high school fellowship, where although I knew it existed since grade 9, I only started to attend in grade 11. Even though I went the fellowship once in grade 10, and knew the time and where it was held; I still didn’t go because I would’ve rather hung out with my friends instead.

And that would happen every week until one day in grade 11, where I suddenly decided to go instead of going out with my friends. It was in that moment where I felt a pull or need to attend the fellowship, and I guess in that moment God pushed me to put the gospel and fellowship first. Instead of a big flash where I was suddenly pushed into faith, I think God has worked in my life slowly and continuously. So, I guess that’s why I’m getting baptised; not because baptism is a finish line, but rather another step into faith.

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