“Through society’s eyes, I had a really good life. I am a recent graduate with an engineering university degree, a job after university with only 6 months of searching, decent wage, and a girlfriend that loves me. But something was missing in my life and that emptiness caused me to search for fulfillment in all the wrong places.

While trying to find fulfillment in my life I experimented with alcohol, over indulged with food and developed a porn addiction. I started sporadically going to church with my girlfriend Caitlyn in the summer of 2014 as she was raised a Christian and I needed to respect and support her “religion”. I had started to read the bible because I knew if I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Caitlyn, I would need to understand why she believed what she believed.

After about a month of reading, my friend Geoff and his wife Amelia talked about Alpha at a dinner. They had gone through the old Alpha program at South View Alliance church in the south and they highly recommended it to us. This interested me because it was a place to ask questions and learn more about the faith, so I signed us up for Alpha at Centre Street Church. During the sessions, we talked about some of the most real things in life, and I started to learn more about who Jesus is. The past negative “worldly” views of Christianity started to be challenged and I learned that there were actual historical facts that Jesus existed and the accuracy of the bible through time is EXTREMELY accurate.

Every week I learnt something new and personal revelations occurred. Then the Holy Spirit weekend helped prepare my heart to accept Christ into my life, and on March 13th, 2017 I accepted Him as my Lord and savior. When doing so, my past porn addiction was lifted from my life. He prompted me through Henry’s sermon on March 11th, with James 5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed”. Jesus gave me the power to confess my sin to Caitlyn and He helped her forgive me for my past sin.

The effects of my past sin are no longer present and I feel closer to God every day as I dig into His word. Life is in no ways easier now that Christ is in my life, but He IS making it more manageable by leaning into Him and not the world. He is in the driver’s seat of my life now, and I have that sense of fulfillment that I was searching for my entire life.”