Once I became a teenager, I started to drift away from some of the moral guidelines I received when I was younger and decided to ‘have some fun’. When I started my college education I left my parent’s home and stayed at a dorm. Without social checks and the church I used to attend back home, I started to give myself more and more to immoral behavior. I thought this was necessary to be cool in the eyes of the other students. However, I had a nagging feeling deep inside that these ‘friends’ would not stick with me in tough times. I also felt guilty about my behavior.

I got to know a group of students who believed the Bible and lived by its guidelines and I started to have Bible study with them. Now I led two kinds of lives: one with those who lived by the Bible and the other with those who didn’t. I tried to hide my interactions with one group from the other. I lived on a floor with a student from Ghana. He was very straightforward about being a Christian. I still remember he once asked every one of us personally at dinner if we were Christians. This made me think about my own ‘Christianity’. His wife was visiting him during the summer, and she inspired me. She was such a joyful person, and Jesus Christ was just like a living person to her! This made me read my Bible again. One day in my room, I read, "As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans do…" (1 Peter 4:2-3). This broke my heart, and I decided that indeed, I had spent enough time living like that. I asked for forgiveness of all my sins and accepted that Jesus Christ had carried my sins on the cross so that God could forgive me. I became very happy and experienced a change in my life.

I started to get together for Bible study and prayer with my friends, and found a local church where Jesus Christ was worshipped as God. Instead of Bible study being a drag, it became a joy! I was often reading my Bible the whole day. About half a year later I was baptized. I made wonderful friends. I started teaching children’s bible class and vacation bible school. In 1994 my wife (who is from Spain) and I were married. Even though it was some 2000 miles away, some of my friends came to join us on our special day. Today we have five beautiful children; 4 daughters and one son.  We experience God’s guidance in our lives and we feel extremely blessed.

There are mysteries in Gods’ Word that I don’t understand. However, most of it is quite straightforward. I have also discovered that much of what scientists claim to be ‘proven’ lacks evidence. Scientists have made the decision that everything they observe needs to be explained materialistically. Instead, I can only see Gods hand in the wonders of this world. I feel very privileged to be a scientist who can study His handiwork. I invite you also to look at His Word (the Bible) and His creation, and hopefully you too will come to know Him in a personal way.