A Timothy

A testimony of a young man that I am discipling.

I grew up in a Christian family, but it was not until I was 17 that I came to have a living faith in Jesus. Before that, I had given my life to Jesus at Christian camps, but in my everyday life, faith played no real role, and I was not actively involved in a church.

Then I attended a youth weekend retreat where there was also a missionary who inspired me, and during that weekend God drew me to Himself. From that point on, I began reading the Bible, and suddenly it came alive to me—it was no longer dead. I experienced the same thing during sermons. During that time, God began to speak to me for the first time in a real and personal way through His written and preached Word.

I spent a year attending a youth group, where I learned about the foundations of the Christian faith. Afterwards, during my studies, I attended another church, and I am now part of BERG Tübingen, and I have become more familiar with the Reformed faith.

I have a particular concern for evangelism because I spent the first six years of my life in West Africa, where my parents were serving as missionaries, and I still have memories of that time. So the subject of missions has been part of my life since childhood, and with God’s help, I am trying to speak with people more about Jesus.

This also includes the weekly evangelism I currently do with Jared, where we have had some good conversations and have the opportunity to be a witness for Christ in Tübingen.