I am Pam, 45 years young and married to Jonathan. We have three special daughters.  I work at Bank of America as a Marketing Manager.

From an early age I was a member of St James' Church, Rhosddu, where I attended Sunday morning worship. However, I have to be honest, the morning service had an extra “pull” due to an elder of the Church giving out sixpence pocket money each week for attending!

My parents divorced when I was very young. We still had contact with my Dad, and there is no doubt in my mind that my father loved me, but I did not have the affection and stability that I would have needed from him.

My Mum remarried in the summer of 1974, and for the next seven years of my life we as a family were active members of Trinity Presbyterian Church. I also became involved with a group from the local Methodist Church on Regent Street called the “Teens & Twenties” (TNT).

It was great to be part of such an active and lively young Christian community. We were all on fire for the Lord. I was baptized when I was about 16 by full immersion. I clearly remember thinking that I had finally found the love and the Father I was looking for.

In 1980 I left comprehensive school and attended Yale Sixth Form College. I got involved right into the student world, and I loved it. I started going my own way and began living a lifestyle that I really could not reconcile with my conscience and with what I had been taught in Church, so for over twenty years I didn't want anything to do with Christianity.

My journey of meeting Jesus again started two years ago. I was to meet Him again through Charlotte, one of my daughters.

Charlotte has been a regular member of St John's Church since the age of 11.  She was confirmed in September 2007, and Jonathan and I came to Church to hear her testimony. At the same time as she was dedicating her life to the Lord I was working through a difficult time in my life. I had felt shipwrecked and isolated for weeks. I was like a ship without a captain to steer me.

It was wonderful to hear how much Charlotte loved the Lord. I could see that He was working in her life. I cried, and my eyes were opened again to the wonders of what Jesus can do, if you only let Him.  Over the past 18 months step by step I have been learning to let go of past hurts and put my family and life in His hands, trusting that He knows best, and to try and seek His will in all that I do.

My testimony is not like the wonderful “Damascus” experience. My walk with God is totally by faith in Him and in the Holy Scriptures, the Bible. I love being part of the “family” of St John's. I can see in the many faces that Jesus is alive. Jonathan, too, loves the community spirit and is slowly taking steps forward into a new Christian life. He made a commitment to God last September when he was baptised with our youngest daughter Jasmin.  Our family life has been transformed since joining St John's, and I for one cannot wait to see what Jesus has in store for us.

"For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient and wrong.  We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds.  We spent our lives in malice and envy, others hated us and we hated them.  But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour was revealed, he saved us.  It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us".. (Titus 3:3-6 GNB)

 Pam Pearce