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Lee Bowden
Place of Salvation: St Michaels Guest House (Bristol)Date of Salvation: 30/04/2004
My Story
I grew up in Bristol with my mother, my father left when I was 2 years old and I never got to see him as I was growing up. My mother was an alcoholic and I spent time living in Weston-super-mare with my grandmother as my mother battled the grip of alcohol. When I was 8 I moved back to Bristol to be with her. She had a boyfreind that was abusive to her and me, and this made me go off the rails from an early age. I ended up expelled at 14 and in serious trouble with the police. A life of drugs and alcohol that lasted 16 years soon followed but somehow I managed to avoid prison but many of my so called freinds didn't. Alot of them have died as a result of their lifestyles, it's by God's grace that I'm here today! I always knew in my heart that God was real, and if I was to get my life to how deep down I knew it should be, then something had to change. My Grandmother was a Christian and had prayed for over 20 years that I would get saved, this happened one night while I was at work. I'd been secretly watching the God Channel for a number of weeks and trying to make sense of my life and what I'd become. Then on friday 30th April 2004 I made the best decision I have ever made, I got on my knees and invited Jesus Christ into my heart and asked him to forgive me of all the bad things I'd done. From that moment on my life has never been the same, instantly I was set free from the things that had kept me enslaved for so long. Life now had purpose and meaning and at last there was hope! God has blessed me so much over the last two and half years. I have an amazing job, I'm engaged to be married and have also just bought my first house. Although alcolhol has claimed my mother, God has restored the relationship I never had with my father. All I can say to anyone reading this is that no matter what you've done in your life good or bad, we all need to have a relationship with the one who created us, and we can only get that through Jesus Christ! I urge you today if you've never invited him in, DO IT! Time is short but if you'll take that step you'll not only find the meaning to life, but you'll also find something even better, HEAVEN!!!