My name is Steven, God saved me on the 29^th of July, 2011. How the spirit led me to bible camp still amazes me. I grew up in a christian family, though I never went to church, ever. I've always believed in God, always prayed. But the last two years, I've pushed God out of my life, porn was the main interest. One day, I just had enough of it, I prayed to God, for the first time in a year, I asked him to let me be a better person. Four days went by without me even thinking about it. I should have given my life to Jesus then, but somehow I didn't. Years went by with this addiction. I was blind with this sin. My grades went down, I couldn't think about anything else. Then in the spring of 2010 i said to myself, “hey you're a christian, why not act like one.” But the thing is, then, I thought you were automatically a christian if your parents were. So I tried to stop swearing, tried to stop using the Lord's name in vein. I tried to live a “typical” christian life. What i didn't know, was that my best friend grew up in a pretty strong christian family, he brought to some of the youth groups that he went to, there I saw a man lift his hands to God for the first time. I thought to myself “what on earth is he doing?” Some other friends, started joining us in the youth group, I think we were a total of 4. but just as everything was going my way, I had to move to Sweden. In this school, i lost my faith completely, no one here was saved. I just couldn't carry on. I once again pushed God out of my life.

During the winter holiday, I went back to Hong Kong. My friend asked me to go to the youth meeting with her, I went. There I met around three other friends. But that didn't change anything. I was still this lost human who didn't want a change. The winter holidays went by, and the spring came. I lost my aunt during the spring. This caused me to be depressed for a long time, even though most people didn't notice it. I hardly new my aunt, but it had such a big impact on me for some reason. At the very end of summer, my father said I was going to go to a bible camp. I didn't want to, I tried to nag to the point where he said I didn't have to go, but it didn't work.

The bible camp was 10 days long, for the last two weeks of summer. After a few days, I realized how fun it actually was. I didn't really pay attention to the lectures, although i do remember one lecture, it was about God's mercy. I don't know why this was the only lesson i remembered, but it had quite a big effect on me. During the nights, we would have worship, I would just sit all alone on a bench, thinking about my aunt. Seven nights went, night after night, I would sit there and think about her. On the eighth night, a friend came up to me, he asked if I needed a prayer, since i didn't want to go up to a person and ask if they could pray for me, I said yes. It really felt as if he knew I needed help, it felt as if God sent him to me. When he prayed for me, I felt God's amazing love and spirit, it felt as if he didn't want me to be sad. That was the night i gave my life to Jesus. In the middle of praying, another friend came in and prayed, and then we all prayed for each other. After praying for each other, i went up to one of my friends who was also a leader at the bible camp. I asked him if God can use us humans, and he said yes, and in ways we don't understand. That moment I knew God used my friend to help me out of this depression.

I've now been saved for 8 months, I've got so much love for God. All I want is him, I try to follow his plan. I've started a christian group at my school, as far as I know, I'm the only saved one at my school, so i hope to do God's will and i hope God will use me to touch the untouched hearts. And to top all of these blessings that God has thrown at me, I am getting baptized tomorrow. That's is how I got saved, and how God lit the light inside of me :)