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Lizzie Fish

“For God so loved the World that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have Eternal life. God did not send His Son into the World to condemn it but to save it.” John 3:16-17


I was born just after the Second World War into a middleclass family. We attended the Presbyterian Church in Burwood. I was baptised into the church with in weeks of birth and continued my attendance until I was 18years old. At the age of 12 years I made a commitment to Jesus.


In family life I was much loved and nurtured. In 1963 aged 14 years, my father suddenly died. We did so much together. He was a godly man, reinforcing the Word of God and the standards he expected me to live by. Without him I felt lost. He was my hero. He loved me dearly.


By July 1967 the Beatles pop group brought out a song called “All you need is love”- a message that appealed to many young girls including me. What I did not realize was that the Beatles lyrics were to spread another type of gospel; a revolution of sexual freedom. Influenced by “pop" movement and peer pressure I gradually forgot my Church involvement.


By 1978 after years of bad decisions, which resulted in misery and hopelessness, I turned back to God for help. This time I surrendered my broken life to Jesus. As I spent time reading the Bible, attending Bible studies and church, Jesus revealed He loved me. He forgave all my sins through His sacrificial death on the cross. I believed, through faith that Jesus had risen from the grave giving me a new life.

In 1981, I was baptised by emersion and filled with the Holy Spirit. The rest is history.



My testimony is more aptly summed up in Titus 3 verses 3-7. Once I too was foolish and disobedient. I was misled by others and became a slave to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. But then God my Saviour showed me His kindness and love. He washed away my sins and gave me a new life through the Holy Spirit. He generously poured out the Holy Spirit upon me because of what Jesus Christ did for me. Jesus declared I am not guilty because of His great kindness and now I have inherited Eternal life.


Amos Selvaraj

June 11, 2020
I’ve grown up in a Christian home of sorts. Mum did a great job leading and teaching me about Jesus given the circumstances. But even with that guidance I just coasted along for many years- going to church, bible studies, youth groups and other Christian activities- without any real interest. To be honest I can’t say I even wanted to be there. I’ve been attending Drouin Presbyterian church since about 2011, but for the most part of the first 5 years I am not proud of what my relationships with God, family and friends were like. But even through all the mistakes I’ve made and pain I’ve caused, I can confidently say God has been with me. In 2015-2016 a lot changed for me, especially my relationship with God and in turn that has greatly affected my relationship and attitude to family and friends around me. I can now see what is important in life and it’s not me. I now understand what God has done for me in giving his son to die on the cross for my sins. I’ve realised that I am a sinner and that I need Jesus to help me. I’m still far from perfect, but knowing what Jesus has done for me makes me want to help and encourage others to follow him also. Galatians 2:20 says “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” From now my only hope is that I live my life by Gods word, and fully rely on his strength and not my own. Becoming a Christian has given me such a feeling of freedom, it’s incredible. And I am so thankful knowing that Jesus has taken what I was owed, and restored my relationship with God.

Daniel Patchett

June 10, 2020
At the end of the day, I’m a Christian because of God’s grace. This relentless mercy has been shown to me time and time again, largely through the Christians in my life that I’ve been blessed to know, and who provide an example of what it means to be a follower of Christ. One of the things I find most convincing and compelling about the Gospel is the implicit rightness of Jesus and his actions, how he epitomises everything that we instinctively know to be good and just. It’s by his self-sacrifice that I’ve been saved, ‘for by grace you have been saved through faith, and it is not your own doing, it’s a gift of God’ (Ephesians 2:8). I grew up in a Christian family, and my parents served as missionaries in Ethiopia for several years. They’ve been outstanding examples to me of imitating Jesus’ self-sacrifice. But I don’t want to rock up to church every week just because my parents do, because faith isn’t genetic, and I’ve found it difficult recently to challenge and question my own beliefs whilst retaining obedient faithfulness. Here, I’ve found discussing issues with other believers very helpful.  I’m still an immature Christian, still doubtful and still torn between God and the world at times. Hopefully that will change by God’s mercy and his Holy Spirit.

Graeme Lowe

June 10, 2020
It was a great start in life to have Christian parents, but it didn’t make me a Christian. Being a missionary kid I heard and saw amazing examples of Christian faith and God at work in PNG – but rather than inspiring me to become a Christian I felt that I wasn’t good enough and that God was probably too busy with more important things than to take notice of me. I never doubted the many stories of the Bible that I learned at home and church and the way God worked in human history - but it never seemed to be my story. Around the end of primary school my family attended the Easter Convention at Belgrave Heights and God used the preacher not only to convince me that my sin was part of the reason for Jesus’ death, but that in His death Jesus paid for that very sin and every other sin I had committed. Like the people in Acts 2:37 , I was “cut to the heart,” asked God to forgive me and found out He wasn’t too busy to take notice of me. It was profound to me that I now knew God - because previously I only knew about Him. Through all the ups and downs of life from that moment and to this day God has shown me that I have a place in His story – now and forever. 
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