We believe that sharing stories can be a powerful tool for inspiring transformation. It demonstrates how God’s love and grace has worked through someone’s life, leading them to make positive changes and finding hope and purpose in their journey.
Alison did not grow up with Jesus in her life. She first encountered faith when her daughter started kindergarten at a Christian school. What began as a small seed has slowly grown into the roots she stands in today.
She once hoped for a sudden turning point, but her faith grew more like a steady trickle – quiet, yet life-giving. In hard moments, it showed up through a worship song, a sermon, or a faithful friend, stirring a hunger to learn more through Alpha, the Bible Course, and The Journey.
As she learned, her questions grew too. While she could see God at work, her unbelief didn’t disappear overnight. Some parts of Scripture stretched her, yet the Lord kept drawing her back. Her heart opened to Him before her mind fully understood. As it says in 2 Corinthians 5:7, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
Over time, Alison sensed it was time to be baptized. Though she resisted at first, she chose to trust in Jesus – His death and resurrection – as an act of obedience to the peace she had experienced for years.
Today, she is being baptized as a declaration of her faith – for herself and for her family. She desires to stay rooted in Christ and continue growing in Him.
Sandra grew up in a Christian home, though her family didn’t attend church often. Throughout her life, she struggled to find her place and identity, while also facing anxiety and depression. After the loss of her parents and several family members, her grief became overwhelming.
During one particularly difficult moment, after feeling abandoned by those around her, Sandra experienced an executive dysfunction breakdown and came to the point of wanting to end her life. It was in that moment that God revealed Himself to her – showing her His love, His sacrifice, and surrounding her with His light. She sensed clearly that He was with her and that her life still held purpose.
As part of her recovery, Sandra began attending church again and started to embrace Jesus’ teaching in her life. Today, Sandra is publicly declaring her to commitment to Jesus!
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” — Jeremiah 29:11
Kal didn’t grow up in a Christian household, but he always felt like something was missing spiritually. When he was 12, he and his dad moved to Kelowna from Williams Lake. Not long after, a friend invited him to a Wednesday youth group. At first, Kal resisted and did everything he could to avoid going.
Around that time, his dad had attended a Sunday service and encouraged Kal to come the following week. Kal doesn’t remember every detail of the message, but it was about stepping out of your comfort zone and noticing what God is already doing. That stuck with him.
The next Wednesday, Kal decided to give youth a try—and it became one of the best experiences of his life. He felt genuinely welcomed, with no pressure. One of the first people he connected with was a youth leader named Eli, someone he could ask anything, big or small.
Now, Kal wants to be baptized as a next step in moving closer to God and to publicly declare his love for Jesus.
Tsukuru shares that she didn’t grow up in a Christian household. For much of her life, she knew of God but never had the opportunity to build a real relationship with Him.
In junior high and early high school, she struggled with her mental health, which began to affect her relationships with family and friends. She tried to find stability in things like basketball and school, but realized those things could easily be taken away.
During that time, a friend invited her to church – and she loved it. From there, Tsukuru began to grow in her relationship with God. Over time, she experienced a deep and consistent sense of peace that she hadn’t known before. She’s seen God show up in her life again and again, providing strong relationships and daily support.
Tsukuru says God has been so good to her and she has chosen to commit her life to Him. Today, she’s being baptized because she wants everyone to know!
Around the age of 12, Roman began to struggle with suicidal thoughts. He didn’t have the emotional capacity to fully understand what he was feeling, but he knew life felt overwhelming. Although he had known God as a child, he lost his faith at a young age after crying out in pain and feeling unheard.
For years, he lived in a place of deep brokenness – feeling stuck, yet strangely comfortable in it. But everything changed just a few months ago.
Roman describes it like being called out of the grave, like Lazarus. In the middle of that darkness, he encountered a love he couldn’t explain – an unconditional love that met him right where he was. He now knows it was Jesus calling him forward.
That moment began a turning point. He started to step out of what had held him for so long, choosing to pursue healing, forgiveness, and a new way of living. Today, Roman praises Jesus for meeting him in his suffering and leading him into new life – one marked by love, freedom, and hope.
Levi was born into a Christian home and grew up around the church. But around the age of 13, his life began to unravel as he experienced significant abuse, which led him into addiction. What began gradually escalated and came to a breaking point in 2018, when he attempted to take his own life. In that darkest moment, Levi says God met him with incredible kindness and saved him.
After that, he sensed God leading him to attend Bible school. Yet the struggle with addiction continued. He faced setbacks, including being suspended, going through rehab, and even experiencing homelessness for a time. Today, Levi is in recovery and now 20 days clean and counting! Through every failure and hardship, he has seen God’s grace carry him. He describes God as the lifter of his head, whose mercies are new every morning.
Psalm 51 has become a prayer he returns to in his failures, as he seeks the Father’s face. Jude 24–25 reminds him that it is not about his own strength, but about God’s power to redeem and sustain him. Levi is being baptized as a public recommitment to Jesus – choosing to put addiction to death and trust fully in God’s faithfulness.
As a youth, Richard didn’t fully understand who Jesus was or what He had done for us. But everything began to shift through a meaningful moment with his father.
Before his father passed, he gave Richard a necklace with a pendant of Jesus on the cross. When Richard put it on, he felt something he couldn’t fully explain – a deep sense of God’s presence & love that stayed with him.
Since that moment, Richard has been on a journey of seeking God and discovering His love in a deeper way. Today, Richard is choosing to be baptized as a step of faith. He desires to follow Jesus, continue growing in his relationship with Him, and live a life shaped by His love.
Laurissa grew up in a Christian household, attending church most Sundays throughout her early years. As she entered her preteen years, life became difficult in several ways, and she found herself seeking approval from the wrong crowd. During that season, she drifted away from God for a number of years.
Even in the midst of that, Laurissa always knew in her heart that she wanted to follow Jesus. As she got older, that desire became clearer. She knew where she truly belonged, even while navigating struggles along the way.
While Laurissa is not new to Christianity, baptism has been something she has avoided for many years due to severe anxiety. Now, she recognizes it as her next step and is choosing to move forward in faith. She looks ahead with anticipation, eager to continue growing stronger in Christ in the years to come.
Before Omar knew Jesus personally, he was living for his own plans and relying on his own strength. He worked hard and tried to do what was right, but something was still missing – a peace and direction he couldn’t create on his own. He carried worries and responsibilities alone instead of trusting God.
Through his family and time at Trinity Church, God began opening his heart. Being surrounded by a community that genuinely loves Jesus made faith feel real and personal. As he heard the gospel and saw others follow Christ, he began to understand that God’s grace isn’t earned, but freely given through Jesus.
Today, Jesus is changing Omar from the inside out. He is learning patience, humility, and how to lead his family with faith instead of fear. Where he once tried to control everything, he is learning to surrender, trust God daily, and seek Him in every decision.
Omar is choosing to be baptized as a public declaration that he belongs to Jesus. He wants to leave his old life behind, walk in new life with Christ, and model a genuine, lived-out faith for his children.
Cristal is choosing to be baptized because she loves the Lord with all her heart. She desires to follow Him wherever He leads and to continue growing in faith and obedience.
It is deeply important to her that her household follows Him as well. As it says, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord,” and she wants her life to reflect that commitment every day.
She is also standing alongside her husband as he takes this bold and beautiful step of faith. It means so much to her that they are walking this journey together – choosing to honour God as a family.
As long as Leighton can remember, he felt a hole inside of him that nothing could fill. He tried everything, but the emptiness never left. Then everything changed. He was hospitalized and diagnosed with a rare form of MS that took his mobility and much of his cognitive function. In a moment, his life was stripped away.
After years of treatments, he met a woman named Merryn who told him Jesus could heal him and faithfully prayed for him – even when he didn’t want it. Leighton brushed it off, believing he could fix things on his own. But months later, a routine MRI showed his lesions were almost completely gone. Even doctors couldn’t explain it. Still, something deeper wasn’t healed.
Then this summer, Merryn passed away in a car accident. It brought Leighton to his knees – and for the first time, he became open to Jesus. He began to see how God had been with him all along. He made church, prayer, and Alpha a priority – and everything began to change.
He found freedom from symptoms, came off medications, and for the first time, felt real peace as that emptiness inside him began to close. Today, Leighton is getting baptized because he knows he’s been given a new life – and he wants others to know there is hope, purpose, and light when you put your faith in Jesus.
Teagen grew up in a Christian home, so Jesus has been part of her story for as long as she can remember. She even recalls asking Him into her heart during Sunday school at a young age.
While her faith has always been present, she allowed shyness to hold her back from being baptized for many years. But seeing her own children grow in their love and understanding of Jesus has inspired her to take this step.
Today, Teagen is choosing to move past hesitation and set a faithful example for her family. As she steps forward, her prayer is for God’s continued protection and guidance over her life and her family as they walk with Him together.
Part of Michelle always felt like something was missing. She would look at others who truly believed in God and wonder what that must be like. In both the highs and the lows, they had a sense of community and a source of direction for their lives – and she found herself longing for that too.
That all began to change at a Christmas service at Trinity. A close friend had invited her to come along with their family, and Michelle said yes, not realizing how significant that moment would become. During the service, one word stood out to her – surrender.
As she sat there, something shifted. Michelle experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit in a way she never had before. It felt as though He filled her from the inside out. Tears of relief streamed down her face as she encountered God personally, and in that moment, she became a true believer.
Now, Michelle is ready to be baptized and celebrate her faith in Jesus, confident that He is always with her and for her.
Before Jessie truly knew Jesus, she was a struggling single mom trying to carry everything on her own. She had always believed in God but didn’t have a real relationship with Him. She wasn’t attending church or reading the Bible and felt the weight of doing life in her own strength. That season began to open her heart. Jessie realized she couldn’t do it alone. About a year ago, she started reading the Bible, and that’s when everything began to shift.
Since then, Jesus has been transforming her life – how she thinks, how she lives, and how she walks through challenges. She’s no longer doing life on her own, but is learning to trust Him, follow Him, and live with purpose. Jessie wants to be baptized out of obedience, as a public declaration that she belongs to Jesus. Her hope is to keep growing in her relationship with Him, to trust Him more deeply, and to follow wherever He leads.
Growing up, Kayle struggled with feeling like she didn’t fit in. As a teenager, she started attending youth group and through the love of Jesus, finally felt like she belonged. She went through some struggles and her faith weakened. It wasn’t until recently that she regained her faith through recovery. She has made the decision to get baptized to loudly declare her faith and courageously follow Jesus. She wants to show her children that no matter what life throws at you, no matter where life takes you, God is always there. He will never abandon you even if you turn away from him. His love is forever.
Kanyon grew up in a Christian household, surrounded by faith from a young age. But it wasn’t until he was 12 years old, when he first attended a youth group, that his relationship with Jesus became real and personal. From that moment on, he chose to follow Him and has never looked back.
Throughout his journey, Jesus has guided Kanyon through many different struggles, always remaining faithful and present. Over time, Kanyon began to see God work in powerful ways in his life—giving him the confidence to step out of his comfort zone, including sharing a sermon in front of his youth group and helping launch a podcast with his peers.
Through every season, Kanyon has experienced that Jesus never leaves him or lets him walk alone. Today, he is choosing to make a public declaration of that faith. Just as Jesus rose from the tomb, Kanyon is choosing to be made new in Christ and walk forward in the life God has called him to