19th September 2012
Re: Confirmation 23rd September – St John’s Church
Sponsor: Emma Novak
Dear Bishop Nigel,
I am Alison Forster and I have been coming to St John’s church for over 18 months. I was born into a non Christian family. I started to believe in God when I was at senior school and met a wonderful RE teacher who help and guided me through life. I started going to Christian fellowship at the school but gave it up due to my family making fun of me with my bible.
I continued through life always thinking someone/something was watching over me making sure I survived; but I was never sure until about 10 years ago. This also was about the time my father passed away of suicide.
Like a domino effect everything in my life changed and great things started to happen for the first time in my 28 years. I met my Husband progressed into a great career and started our long awaited family. We also move from Bournemouth to Ipswich away from horrible childhood memories and family stresses.
I didn’t start to believe truly that God was looking after me until a very good friend (Emma my Sponsor) whom I had known for four years asked me if I would go on an Alpha course with her. I put it off for several months then met another new person (Caroline) who knew my friend and they both joined me on the course.
At the same time I decided to return to St John’s church which I had visited a year previous but, at that time, found it too emotional.
Both the Alpha course and St John’s have had a massive impact on my life. Even my wonderful husband said to me what a difference in my nature and character; that I seemed much more at peace and happy with life in general.
I feel very strongly connected to God through St John’s and with the support and guidance from Antony, Rachel and Elisheva. I am also at awe at how God puts these amazing and beautiful people into my life and will continue to do so. I just hope and wish I can make a difference and be just as much an inspiration to others in the way people have to me.
I hope that one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit will be to guide and support and love people who really need it, like I have, and I hope to do this through many ways including through my Blog: http://myjourneyintohappiness.blogspot.co.uk/
Kind regards
Alison Forster
About Me
- Families and Happiness
- Well, where do I start? I could start at many stages in my life; all very exciting and adventurous in some sort of way. Probably best to start when I met my husband 10 years ago, as this was the turning point in my very emotional and dramatic life. Met Ben through work, we had a wonderful life together, very ambitious, career driven until we decided to started a family 4 years later. The fertility Journey did take 2 years to conceive but we got there eventually and conceived little Thomas, now for someone like me who has no patience what so ever this was a agonizing and stressful wait but well worth it. We moved from our home town Bournemouth to Ipswich with Ben's work, I gave up my careern and then married in Cumbria in 2009. We continued to have 2 more children very easily compared to Thomas, Jesiica and Baby Wilson.
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