Sonia Allen

I can remember driving past the Coton Centre when they first started building and saying to myself “I wonder what that is”. It was so heavy on my heart that I started to ask around if anyone knew. Finally, one day I was told it was a Church and I thought to myself “I’m going to try that Church one day”. Well that day came and when I walked through the doors I was on my own with 3 children and on antidepressants (all I wanted to do was close my eyes and never wake up). God touched my life that day and I left changed. I couldn’t wait to come back the following Sunday. God started to take me on a journey into the wilderness and many times I cried out to God to leave me but he picked me up and carried me. I came out knowing God more, loving Him more and knowing who I was in Christ. He has restored me and placed me on higher ground.

Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

God is sovereign, He had the full knowledge of my problems and the sorrows I was facing but He is all-powerful – nothing is beyond His ability to heal or restore. I love the Lord with all my heart and every day I can’t wait to spend time with Him and have that intimacy with Him. There is a part of my heart that finds more and more of God every day!

Psalm 116:1-2 I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

There is never a day that goes by that I don’t feel his arms around me.