My name is Sarah Nelson and I am 36 years old. I am from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I'm going to tell you about my testimony of how I came to know Jesus and a little bit about how he kind of brought me back to him later on in life and where I'm at now. Thank you. I'm going to

I'm So I came to know Jesus when I was 13.

My parents actually had gotten a divorce and we moved from our hometown up to kind of near Tulsa.

And we moved in with my aunt and started going to church with them

at a Baptist church and I always, you know, knew about Jesus. Honestly, there was a bunch of church

hurt that happened to me as a child. But I know that's not what this is about. However, that kind of pushed me away a little bit

from church and Jesus, and I was just really hurt by it. It had to deal with my parents' divorce

and church, and there was just a lot of stuff there. Anyway, so that's not

really what I, what my testimony is about. But anyway, I've always known since I was a little kid

about Jesus, and I was 13 when I gave my life to Jesus. I knew that I needed him as a savior. I

knew that I was a sinner, and that, you know, without him, my

life would be basically meaningless in a way. You know, I would go to hell without him. So

I gave my life to Jesus. I didn't fully know what that meant, I don't think. And, you know,

when you're 13, I loved him. I loved

Jesus. But as life went on, I turned to things of the world, such as drinking, partying,

alcohol whenever I went to college. So my 20s were spent partying. And there was always,

you know, Jesus just like in the back of my mind. And I did feel extremely guilty for the way

that I was living and I was praying a lot for forgiveness. So in my 20s, I got pregnant with my son. He's nine years old now. I love him so much,

but the relationship was really horrible and volatile and I wasn't going to church at this time.

I wasn't really living like a Christian should live at all.

And not like a Christian should because you can't really define that,

but you wouldn't have known from knowing me besides me being a nice person

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