Published on: 04/08/2026
Recently I’ve been reflecting on missions and thinking about how we are applying this to our daily lives and within our church communities. It’s made me wonder, “how prepared are we to speak to others about our faith and to invite others to know Jesus?”
In 2016 I left my job in a large church in a busy parish in the diocese to join a missional organisation (Operation Mobilisation) to travel the world and share Jesus with the people I would meet. Before I entered the mission field we had several weeks of training to help us understand why sharing Jesus and our faith was so important and what it would be like to be away from home. In the first weeks of joining the ministry and during more training, we were asked to share a couple of things. First, we were asked to share why we had joined the organization and then asked to share our faith testimony.
It was one of the first times I’d ever been asked to share my faith testimony and was a bit unsure what to say and thought my testimony wasn’t interesting or exciting. I thought, well, I’ve grown up attending church, was often sent out from the kids’ group to crèche as I struggled to concentrate and misbehaved. As I’ve reflected, I realised that most of the time I found the way the gospel was presented to me as a child was not relevant, was for older people and not something that interested me.
As a teenager I started to attend a different church and during their youth service during a call to give our lives to Jesus, I put my hand up to accept Jesus into my life because I wanted the free stuff in the welcome packs that were given out…I struggled to put my testimony into something I though would be interesting to hear. As I was made to write it out, I realised that it was interesting, even though there was no major turning point in my faith, I saw something different within those around me, and I wanted some of what they had. An excitement for the gospel, they were kind and caring and wanted the best for those around them. Once we had written our testimonies, we were then challenged to write a one minute, five minute and improve our full, no time restricted version of our testimonies to then share with those I was joining the mission field with, in a safe space where mistakes could be made and revisions written.
I wonder how ready you are to share your faith with those around you. Have you ever practiced speaking or writing out your testimony of how you came to faith? Would you be ready if someone asked?
I’d like to challenge you to do the exercises I went through if you haven’t already.
There are several reasons why I think it’s important to be ready to share our faith and testimony with others.
- 1 Peter 3:15 encourages us to be able to tell people about our faith and to be ready to share the reason we believe what we believe and I see our own testimony being a part of this.
- Sharing your testimony, as boring as it may feel to you, may bring hope and encouragement to the person you are sharing it with.
- When we take time to write a testimony, we reflect on what we have done and been through and this can be a good reminder of the things God has done in our lives. You may be surprised as you reflect on where God has worked in your life.
As I think about my testimony and the ordinariness of it, there was no big transformation of my circumstances and the way I was but a quite gentle change over the years since I accepted Jesus into my life as a teenager.
I challenge you to take some time, it doesn’t have to be long, to write out your faith testimony and then find someone to share it with!
This week’s Blog post was written by Rachael Williams, PA to the Lead Lay Ministry Enabler