{"id":7493,"date":"2017-04-13T05:52:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2017-04-03T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:08:14","slug":"you-need-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/friends-of-cvm\/you-need-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"You need to go home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 10th of the 10th 2010 I was baptized by full immersion. But why?<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a family that openly disliked church, though I&#8217;ve no idea why. Other than a wedding or two I had no desire to enter a church until I was 16 and that was only because I fancied a girl who persuaded me to go on the promise of a kiss or cuddle!<\/p>\n<p>That cemented my idea that church wasn&#8217;t for me and Christians were weird; (and some still are I reckon!).<\/p>\n<p>So what changed?\u00a0 Life I suppose! I was always caring and empathetic as a child. I grew up on a council estate and was always looking for a new experience right or wrong.<br \/>\nAfter being unable to join the army because I was too small, I drifted into care-work. Initially this was with the elderly and then children and young people. I&#8217;ve seen amazing miracles and supported people during painful,\u00a0distressing deaths. I have met the most inspiring people and also some of the most broken.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said I have always been kind, caring and empathetic with a knack of saying the right thing rather than the \u2018correct\u2019 thing! I was respected for that and that made me good at my job. I loved life and wanted it to challenge me and it did.<\/p>\n<p>By the age of 30 and with much life experience I started to think about faith; what did I actually believe? Where did my beliefs fit in?<\/p>\n<p>In April 2001 I had an experience that led me to get into my car without any real thought and drive to a specific Christian church. Now that sounds weird I know but that&#8217;s what happened, and that evening I realised that I did believe in God. Before this night I thought I was sorted but from that moment life began to make sense, I was more confident and happy.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I have had some more amazing experiences, but after a while I realised that my faith had stopped growing. Yes I was still caring for other people.<br \/>\nThen one week, after a lifeless church service that had done nothing for me, I weakly smiled at an old lady who could see my frustration and I listened intently as she said <strong>&#8220;<em>YOU NEED TO GO HOME AND PRAY FOR JESUS CHRIST TO COME INTO YOUR LIFE&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I did just that &#8211; and he did at a 100 miles an hour &#8211; from that moment my faith began to really grow and I needed to make a statement so everyone around me knew \u2026 that\u2019s why I was baptized on the 10th of the 10th 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Antony Millward\u2019s<br \/>\nA\/C for North West Leicestershire<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/team-cvm-podcast_600x200.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"team-cvm-podcast_600x200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/BtNxJsFOjtQ\" target=\"_blank\">Ben White<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/friends-of-cvm\/you-need-to-go-home\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 10th of the 10th 2010 I was baptized by full immersion. 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