I guess life for me was just going to school and having fun like any other kid at that age until I was about 14. I have always attended church as my dad was a vicar, so I suppose I can't really pinpoint a date when I 'said that prayer'. I can however reflect upon a significant moment which set the ball rolling for quite a rollercoaster couple of years which have involved building, breaking, and blessing.

I attended the local Church, where my dad was the vicar, and found it quite frustrating. Having attended several New Wine conferences and Soul Survivor, I found church life really dull and irrelevant to where I felt I needed to be. I struggled that I was in a town of real blessing, but in a church with little passion. At the age of 15, when I really did start to get majorly annoyed at the state or worship, God clearly told me to do it myself and try and lead culturally and generationally relevant worship.g sewage on the streets?'

This was the start of a significant stage in my life; I started to deepen my relationship with God, and tried to learn what it meant to be a disciple of Christ. As years went by, I received many encouragements regarding what God was saying to me about my call in worship. At the age of 18 I went to University in Oxford, which I can pinpoint as a time in my life where I really strayed away from God. I got quite involved in a relationship with a girl, which wasn't particularly good for either of us. I failed to make any really good friends and struggled on my course, and in the end had to drop out before I failed. Along the way I attempted to destroy key relationships (unintentionally), although grace shown to me through these people has helped me to get closer to God. I thank God for them.

Having left university with a long string of debts, I moved on to work abroad for 2 months before returning home to try and sort my life out. This wasn't as easy as I had hoped, although I did pull through. I worked at home for a while pushing myself back into church, worship and youth work and again the grace of God was massively revealed to me through this time. I applied to do Tribal Training and got on before going away to be a waterfront assistant in a Christian hotel in Turkey. My 5 months in Turkey was a real time of growth in an environment that took me away from some of my history. It proved to be a chance to deepen again my relationship with God.

I arrived back in the country in mid September leaving myself about a week to unpack, have a shower and then repack my gear to move up to sunny Sheffield for Tribal Training. Since moving to Sheffield God has had His hand on my life in a real major way. I have seen his faithfulness to me through the provision of work, friends, and great leaders. Although financially the last 6 months have been a real deal, God's promise of provision is still firmly in my heart, and I trust fully that He will lead me to the place where He wants me to be. I know that I am just at the start of God's plan for my life, but if the last 5 years is anything to go by, the next 60 shall be a real excitement. What is life about for me?? Now I would say that life is about trying to surrender my all, for His everything.