Ryan Gault, Age 17: I have had the privilege of being brought up in a Christian family, and was sent out to meetings and church since I was a child.  I soon realised that if I wanted to be part of God’s family that I needed to ask Him into my life.  I did this at a very early age but sadly after a while I began to drift away from God.  As I started to grow up, towards the end of primary school, I started to feel embarrassed if people knew that I was a Christian and that I went to church.  I began to hide it from people and this continued when I started secondary school.  I had started to loose all interest in church.  I began to live two lives, playing the Christian on a Sunday, going to meetings to please my parents and then I was a completely different person during the week.  I was going to places I shouldn’t have been going and doing things I shouldn’t have been doing.  I was in bad company in school and often found myself in trouble.  For me, all I cared about was enjoying myself and having a laugh with my mates.  But during the summer, before my 5th year in school, my uncle Wilbert died on 6th August.  This totally devastated me and made me stop and think about my life and where it was going.  Deep down I knew that I was rebelling against God and needed to get myself right with Him, so I began to put more effort into going to church and told myself that when I went back to school I was going to tell my mates that I was a Christian.  When I got back to school I realised that it wasn’t as easy as I thought and soon slipped back into the old routine.  Constantly in trouble, I made it obvious that I had no interest in school or getting anything out of it, and I left in June with barely any qualifications.  That summer when I came home from a family holiday, I received some terrible news.  My mate had hung himself.  This blew my mind and once again made me think about my own life and how it was going nowhere.  It was time to make a decision, whether to continue down the hopeless road I was going, or ask God for forgiveness for my sins and for His help to sort my life out.  I chose to go God’s way.  From that time on I wasn’t ashamed to be called a Christian or to be seen going to church, and later that year I was baptised.  I have guilt over me now that I never told my mate that I was a Christian and that he also needed to be saved, because no one know how long we have here, only God does.  I found out that the world has nothing to offer, it might seem good at the time, but God has something much more special to offer.  He saved me and gave me a new life, and he can do the same for you.

John Ch. 3 v 16 & 17
For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved.

Laura Scott, Age 18: I was very happy in that I grew up in a loving Christian home. Both my parents were saved when I was 1 year old. From an early age I was sent to Sunday school and attended Church every week. One Sunday, the Pastor, Pastor Stephen Boreland was speaking from the book of Revelation on the topic of the end of the world

I didn't understand everything that was said that night but I was terrified that I would be a part of the tribulation to come. I knew that i needed to be Saved. It was that night in my own room that i made the most important and influential choice of my life. that night, I asked Jesus to come into my Heart and Forgive my Sins.

It was shortly after this I joined the junior YPF in which I made many good friends which I have to this day. at the age of 12 in my second year of high school I fell into a group of non-Christian friends, they started to pull me further away from church and soon it became a chore. In third year, I joined the senior bible class and YPF, here I learnt that i needed to be closer to God and the amazing people I had around me were a great influence on my life, they showed me that what God could give me was so much more than what the world has to offer.

It was then I decided I needed to get right with God and so I started to become more involved in the Church and grew closer to God. In May 2003, I was baptized. I now have a strong group of Christian friends around me who I thank the Lord for daily and a loving family. I would just say to anyone who doesn't know the Lord or who has fallen away, that what God has to offer is so much more than the world can ever give.