Aunty Tammy is a dear, young Aunty in our assembly who has showered much love to everyone. She is always smiling from the heart, and when you consider the circumstances she has been through, it’d be hard for you to smile the way she does! But yet she proves (and her husband too) that true joy comes from within, and that when she is weak, He is strong. She is also a great testimony not just in the assembly, in her family, but also at work. Many years back, I remember Guna kor sharing that she is an amazing testimony at work and an encouragement for him to be one (they were working in the same company).

Recently, at our Rediscover Christmas meetings, she shared her testimony to the public. I love hearing people tell how they got saved, so I was really sad that I couldn’t hear it when she shared it as I was involved in the handmime and couldn’t be in the hall. But she was kind enough to e-mail me her written testimony, and it brought tears to the eyes. I’ve got her permission to share it here, for the benefit of those who were also in the handmime team, as well as to encourage each soul who finds their way here.

What a mighty God we serve!

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Aunty Tammy’s testimony

Hi, my name is Tammy. Tonight I would like to share with you on how I became a Christian.

I accepted Lord Jesus at the age of 13 and it’s almost 30 years now. I come from a non-Christian family. At the age of 5 my mother sent me to Sunday School of Assembly of God which was near my house. I have heard all the wonderful stories in the bible about the Lord Jesus, Adam & Eve, Jonah and Samson. I have learnt many Sunday School songs too. Then when I entered Std 5 at the age of 11, my mother told me to stop going to Sunday school to concentrate in my exam. Then it was called Penilaian Exam. So I stop going to Sunday school for 1 year. After my exam, I went back to Sunday school but most of my friends were not attending anymore. As I was not comfortable going back to Sunday school, I decided to stop going.

A year later, I saw a leaflet in my letterbox from Pusat Injil Kajang, inviting students for Teens’ Club. Pusat Injil Kajang is KGC in BM, was started by Uncle and Aunty Kok and it was located in the same residence area. My sister Hazel and my childhoodfriend Joanna were keen to attend as we were very eager to do well in Form One… a milestone in our lives as we graduated from primary school. My neighbour Mrs Chin who is a Christian told my mother that KGC provides Maths tuition and encouraged her to send us to KGC Maths tuition and Teens Club. We had bicycles then and so off we cycled to KGC every Saturday, 3pm for Maths tuition by Mrs Ong and 4pm for Teens Club. My younger sister Karen and brother Desmond went to KGC Sunday School.

During Teens Club, a guy named Jason conducted games. We always have games in Teens Club. He gave out presents for winners of every game. My sister Hazel had won one of the games and had received the present. I found out it was a Good News Bible! I was so keen to have a bible as well and looked forward to win. A few weeks have passed and I still had not won anything. One Saturday Jason asked who had not won a present before. I can’t remember who else had not won but I was so happy to raise my hand and got my very first bible, very happy, still remember that feeling.

I started reading the bible as somehow I was deeply eager to find out more about God and the Lord Jesus and the stories were so intriguing. In every Teens Club meeting Uncle Kok shared messages with us taking stories and parables from the bibles which I have never heard before in Sunday School. It was really deep and I constantly thought about his messages. I have known many stories about the Lord Jesus from Sunday School but I have heard that there is a purpose He came to this world. I have never heard that His love carried Him to the cross to die in our place. In fact, I didn’t know that I can’t go to Heaven when I die!

One night, I was troubled with my problems and I couldn’t sleep. I decided to go down to the living hall. Somehow before I reached for the door of my room, I turned to my bible and I was not sure what urged me to take my bible. So I took my bible along with me. I remember being so troubled and in tremendous fear that the time seemed to have stopped and I felt my cold sweat. In despair I saw my bible again and somehow opened the bible. The moment I opened the bible these verses were somehow
highlighted for me to read. It says :

…Call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me…. Jer 29: 12 & 13

Wow, I could feel that God spoke straight to my heart that night. As He reached down to me that night, revealing that He truly exists, I accepted the Lord Jesus into my heart. I felt this great peace in me and suddenly I was not troubled anymore about my problem. I slept so well after inviting Jesus into my life that night.

And God did not just reveal Himself and spoke to me that night. He is alive in my life and always watches over me and helps me through all my troubles and sorrow. Most people have commented that they don’t want to be Christians because Christians must go to church, have to pray and read bible but let me share with you that I want to pray, I want to go to Church and read the bible not because I have to but I want to, I love to. I just can’t imagine living my life without being in this beautiful relationship with God. So many times the Words in the bible have comforted me and guided me when I needed directions.

Let me share how wonderful God has been to me. I am a Company Secretary by profession. My job requires me to ensure compliance to the Companies Act and Listing Requirements. When I just started work, there was no secretarial department. I was the first staff and I was very junior and had not even passed all my papers. There was no one there to teach me how to do secretarial duties. I had to learn everything myself. However God has always been with me throughout my career. There were so many times I discovered on the last day of deadline that I had to file certain documents with the Registrar of Companies and to make announcements to Bursa Securities. And I was truly saved by the Lord’s Hand of protection. I was saved from non-compliance and it was something that I was not aware but God taught me just at the right time.

He has also blessed me with a good husband and two children. My younger child, Clement is mild autistic and it was truly tough trying to seek professional help for him. I remember when we found out that he may be autistic the Lord has given me the assurance and strength to walk this path. You know, God has been good to us all these years. We had difficulties looking for professional help for Clement. But God opened the way for us to get the right help and advice along the way. I have seen God’s many miracles on Clement. He couldn’t even hold a pencil even at the age of four. Every day I will hold his hand to do some writing and drawing and this went on for a few years. Today he could write and draw beautifully. He couldn’t speak for many years and today he could speak about 3 words in a sentence and he could also read. Now, when I point at the picture of crocodile and said, “crocodile”. He would correct me and said, “Alligator!”. When I pointed and said “monkey”, he disagreed and replied, “chimpanzee”. Another time I pointed and said “tiger”. He replied, “tiger”. But when I pointed the small tiger and said, “baby tiger”. He responded “tiger cub!”. These are miracles from God! I don’t know how his future will be but I know for sure that I can trust God to take care of him and that he is in good Hand.

This is my testimony. Thank you.

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Psalm 86:10 For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.