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<2012.01> The Fair God

Theresa Herbrand | Germany
My name is Theresa Herbrand and I live in Dusseldorf, Germany. I am 22 years old and am a medical student in my 4th year. I was saved on the 4th of November, 2011, at around 3 am, after what felt like years of searching for the truth. For you to understand how difficult getting saved meant to me at that time, I will tell you a little about myself.
My mom has been going to the church since before I was born and I grown up in moim. After having gotten familiar with the bible I thought I was saved when I was 14. As time passed by, however, I got busier and when I was about to graduate from highschool I stopped going to the church. Yet I did not stop thinking about it all together and when people asked I would always say that I believed in God, but in reality I wasn't sure about what I was saying.
In my second year of university my mom put more pressure on me to at least attend the German conference, so in 2009 I decided to go, at least for the weekend. To be honest, I did not like it at all. I found it boring and nothing they said applied to me. I felt I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and when the conference was over I was happy to leave.
However, even weeks later the thought that those people there at the conference seemed to know something that I didn't, did not leave me alone. There were no proper student/young adults meeting in Dusseldorf moim at that time, so I asked Martin Hwang, who was also not born again, and Ki-Ok Lee, if they wanted to watch The "Bible is True' tapes with me. We met every Monday for two years then and talked about the bible.
I got more familiar with the bible through these meetings but I often only went there because there were only three people and I felt if I skipped a meeting, I would let Ki-Ok and Martin down. Around this time last year, I had my first national medical state examination, which meant a lot of stress for me but at the back of my head I constantly felt guilty for not concentrating on the bible as much as I wanted to. I promised myself to really seek the word and find the truth once this exam is over.
In spring 2011 I was planning on doing an internship at a hospital in Bolivia and when I told my mom about the plan she suggested attending the Brazilian Bible Conference, which happened to start only a couple of days after the internship. I did not want to spend the money at first but since I promised myself to find out the truth about the bible, I ended up going to Sao Paulo, Brazil. I received a warm welcome from the brothers and sisters there and, to my surprise, I met In-Ae Lee at the conference. The conference was quite small and sincere and I was struck to see these people working hard for one common goal a goal which I could not yet understand. I was moved by how they all worked together and even the students were so involved in all the work that l became even more curious why that was.
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