Hey There Everyone!

Hey!

My name is Jenny and I am a grade 12 drama major at the Langley fine arts school. I've grown up in a non Christian home but still a good home! Sometime around grade four my sister became a Christian and married my Brother in law. They both became Sr. Youth leaders at Ross Road Community Church, and when I was old enough to attend, in grade 9, they invited me out. I loved it so much I began to go regularly. Later on in the year the youth group started to have regular small group nights. We studied Bible stories and read verses, which was so all completely new to me, at first I was nervous to go and sometimes didn't want to go because I was afraid I was going to miss pronounce something or be asked a question I didn't know. But as time went on instead of being nervous I became extremely curious about the deeper meaning behind these stories I was learning about, and especially about the end times. My brother in law gave me a Bible and I began reading on my own, writing down pages of questions and getting together with him for coffee to ask them all! It was really cool and I began to thirst for even more knowledge and this relationship with Jesus I had been learning about.

One night I was asked by my small group leader if I was a Christian, and I didn't know what to say, so I said yes, which was a lie but I was… I guess ashamed to say that I wasn't because somewhere I knew that all of the things I had been learning about were right and true! But I just couldn't seem to give my life to him, hand over that trust.

I was too afraid. You see I go to a public school where Christianity is often mocked and made fun of by the majority, including my closest friends. I was deeply; fearfully afraid that if I gave my life to Jesus and became a Christian I would lose my friends and I would be alone.

That summer 2004 I went to our church’s family camp. All weekend people who I had never met were asking me to come play games with them, eat at their table, work on a project with them or be on their team. Many others would genuinely come up to me and ask me how my day was, or even who I was and want to get to know me. That weekend God showed me that I would never be alone, these people as my Church community would always be there to support me and pray for me and just be my friend.

I spent the rest of that summer at my cabin reading my bible battling doubts. When I came home I went to a worship night held by CLA with my Brother in law. I was so done with being confused and afraid I just let it all go and put it into the hands of God. That was August 28 2004, the day I became a Christian.

Since then it’s been awesome! I still have all of my same friends but some new ones as well. Sometimes it’s hard to watch them fall knowing that if they just accepted Christ they wouldn't live the way they do now in fact they wouldn’t even want to.

God has given me so many opportunities in the last couple of years its sweet! I've gotten to fully admire his creation by doing a Senior Leadership program at camp Squeah where we went on a three day hike around some truly amazing mountains and marshes! I've gotten to cop-council two cabins of girls and help them out! I'm now a leader for the middle school youth group at my church. I also was a leader for a week long adventure camp that my church put on! It’s so cool the things I’ve already gotten to do and being accepted into Kaleo I know is going to bring on a whole new set of sweet things! I can't wait to be in the awesome atmosphere at Kaleo and learn and study the word of God! What could be better honestly!

Well I’m super looking forward to meeting and talking to you all soon!

Jenny