Testimony: Chris Funnell

I started going to church in 2006 at a church in Harborne (Birmingham) while visiting my girlfriend who was at University there - she would go every Sunday so I tagged along. Week in week out we went to church and I really started to get to enjoy the praise and the teaching. When she finished University and moved back to the South I then spend sometime looking for somewhere local and after trying a couple of churches in Brighton and Eastbourne found Bishop Hannington church.

It was Easter 2007 and after a great sermon the Christianity Explored course was advertised I took a flyer and a couple of weeks later found myself talking about the Bible and Jesus a completely new concept for me! After a number of weeks of great meetings, discussion and fellowship I realised I was on the path to building a relationship with God and started to ask the question - am I a Christian?

Then on the 19th June I was on my way home from a night out from work and prayed for God to help me and to provide some understanding, moments later I came  across a complete stranger who needed some help - some how we got talking about God and in that moment everything fell into place, I realised I was a Christian and that I wanted to commit my life to God. Since then my life has become richer, I've met some great people and made some great friends and I praise God for this everyday.