Why Dylys is a Christian

I had gone to church all my life, literally from 10 days old. I was taken the three miles from the village where I lived to the church in Cheadle: we had no car so had to walk. In all those years until I was about eleven or so when we got a car, I can only remember turning back twice. Once because the snow drifts were so high we would have got thoroughly wet and the other was in a really bad storm when there was water in our shoes before we had gone half a mile.

Although I had gone to church every week and from the age of eight to the nearby Sunday School I was not a Christian. One day when I was thirteen I heard a message that made me think what would happen if I died that night, this thought troubled me and I think it was the following Sunday I decided that I needed Christ in my life.

It was three months later that I was baptised in water at a place called Ball Green. This step showed that I had died to my old ways and living now in Christ's.

I had been taught to pray, but now prayed with meaning, and believed that what I asked for would be granted me. I began to read the Bible in a new light, it became real to me.

The biggest change that I noticed in my life was my temper. Before I became a Christian I had a short temper and was always arguing with my brother, I would also get my shoe off or pick up the poker to hit him with it: gradually this went and it was quite a while before I noticed that I did not lose my temper like I used to. Now it takes a lot to make me lose my temper I seem to have gone to the other extreme, this is not any of my doing, I could not control it.

When I was 18 we moved to another church and there I was encouraged to study the Bible more, and was asked to speak at a young peoples meeting. I was then asked to speak at women's meetings also and would do this quite regularly. I got asked to do all manner of things in the church and I can honestly say that I have done everything in church except play the organ (only because I can not play). I led meetings when I was the young peoples leader. I have read, led chorus's, sang solo's as well as things like giving out of hymn books.

When I was 17 I began to pray for a boy-friend and continued to pray for about three years. Then I stopped praying for this every day because I decided that God would answer in His own time and why should I rush Him, or concern myself over this. I decided to get on with doing whatever it was He wanted me to do. So it was only on and off over the next 20 years that I prayed about it, and as you will see from Graham's testimony He answered in His time.

I had tried to leave Creda a few times and got nowhere with any of my job applications, if I had I would never have met up with Jackie again and so she could never have introduced us. The rest you know but I am confident, whatever comes my way, that God with lead us through and that He gives His peace. There Have been times in my life when I would not have known what to do, or where to turn if God had not been with me.