Faith Stories with Naomi Reed

This week, I put down my pen after writing the 250th faith story for Eternity News! It’s been an amazing, humbling journey so far. I started in September, 2019. I thought it would be a wonderful idea to capture hundreds of testimonies – a huge variety of stories of people coming to faith in Jesus, […]

“Six years ago, I lost my wife and family to drugs. I ended up a full-blown junkie, sleeping in a park in Redbank (Brisbane), homeless. I started using drugs at eight years old. It continued through my teenage years and early adulthood. I stopped using needles for a while in my 20s, but I continued […]

“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a faith in Jesus. My parents were both Christians. They were ordinary people – a farmer and his wife. But they had a genuine faith in Jesus, which meant I was taught well from the Bible from early on. I had a good grasp of the […]

“I was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, 91 years ago. My father was a minister of religion, and we moved every three or four years. But my parents had a great capacity to love, and we were nurtured in prayer and the word of God. We were always talking to our heavenly Father, who was a […]

“I became a Christian when I was at university in Mexico. At the time, I was studying mechatronic engineering, and I was living with my older brother in a shared house in Ciudad del Carmen. It was a good time. We were partying, hanging out with friends, like uni students do. Then, my brother actually […]

“A month after I was born, my mother died of pneumonia. Being the youngest of six, my father found it somewhat challenging to care for the younger ones, particularly the baby. Some weeks later, a neighbour offered to care for me temporarily, and then offered to care for me permanently. I became the youngest of […]

“I’ve always been a science-based person. I’m wired that way. My whole career has been based on logic and analysis – how things are created and built. It started in high school and then continued at university – I got degrees that covered engineering, human physiology, physics, and chemistry. After uni, my girlfriend and I […]

“I was born and raised in Broken Hill. I went to church there and all that. But it became real for me in 1949, when I was 15. Back then Broken Hill used to have a Christian mission once a year – an open-air meeting on the street near the shops. An evangelist came from […]

“I grew up in a progressive church where I heard a lot of morals. The other kids were good kids and I felt that compared to them I never lived up. I had undiagnosed ADHD and I couldn’t sit still – I was the outsider and the misfit. Back then, I used to get into […]

“I didn’t grow up in a Christian household and we didn’t go to church. My dad’s side were quite religious, but my mum’s side were atheists. When I was 25 my father passed away quite suddenly. He was only 60 years old. I loved my father. He and I got on like a house on […]

“I was born into a Hindu family in Nepal. My parents used to go to the temple, but I didn’t. I didn’t like the look of the Hindu gods. I had no interest in them. When I was 13, I was married. My parents arranged my marriage, according to Hindu culture. My husband was 17. […]

“I’m a firstborn Asian son. I was always a high achiever! In primary school, I was the annoying kid who asked the teacher for more work. In high school, I would get 99 per cent in an exam, and fixate on the one mark that was missing. While my friends were busy partying, I was […]

Warning: This article contains brief reference to domestic violence. “I grew up on a dairy farm in Gympie. My mother often told me I was ugly and unlovable. She had six children, and one of them (my younger brother) was from an extra-marital affair. Whenever he did anything wrong, I would be blamed and my […]

“In my 30’s, I had a plan for my life. There was no way God figured in it. I was reading a fair bit of personal development literature out of the US. For example, The Power of Positive Thinking. I liked the book, but as soon as the author mentioned God, I put it down. […]

“When I was 11, our mother died. It was sudden and unexpected. I’m the eldest of four, with a significantly disabled younger sister and two younger brothers. Afterwards, I carried a lot of hurt. As a people-pleaser, I wanted to fix things for our family in any way I could. Dad was raising us on […]