Jennifer Kim | USA     I attend the Latin American Conference for the first time this year, and I can say with utmost certainty that it was truly a blessed and fruitful experience.     I was born in New York to parents and grandparents who had already received salvation. I came to know God on July 8, 2000 during the LA summer event for teens and young adults preparation term. At the age of eleven, I was the youngest there by a significant margin and was therefore met with a fair amount of skepticism when after a counseling session, I declared assertively that I was saved.     John chapter 5 verse 24 was the trigger Bible verse.       Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.       I believed that God had sent His only Son to die on the cross so that a sinner like me could pass from death into life, and so that my sins would be forever forgiven because the blood of Jesus had redeemed us all. It was at that moment that I understood and accepted God’s immense love and sacrifice. The message I received was so simple, so clear, and yet it struck me with a sharpness and precision that left the eleven-year-old me initially speechless and then grateful. I remember feeling very vividly that my heart would burst out of my chest from gratitude and lightness - the kind of lightness one feels when a great burden has been lifted and all worldly fears and concerns - even those of an eleven-year-old - vanish into nothing.     There are no adequate words to describe how thankful I am that salvation came relatively quickly and effortlessly for me. But as the months passed by and one year became five, and five years became ten, the immense gratitude I felt eventually dwindled into a mere glimmer within my heart. I had become so preoccupied with and immersed in my studies that I did the bare minimum of attending one Bible conference a year while allowing myself the excuse of

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