Jacob Haydn Sawyer

I grew up in a strong Christian home based in The Salvation Army, with two parents, an older sister and a younger brother.

Although I was brought up knowing the Bible, and knew to do my best to be good, I didn’t really understand why, and had no real connection to God. It wasn’t until I attended an Easter Camp when I was 13 that I felt God’s presence, and started to realise His huge love for me. It was during this time that I signed my name by Isaiah 6:8, fully committing myself to God working through me to do His will.

I was known to be a Christian at school, and did my best not to compromise my relationship with God by bending to peer pressure. I kept a small group of male friends through my later years of High School, and was one of their only links to Christianity. I did my best to be like Jesus to them, but after years of having no close Christian friends, I was often really discouraged, and felt alienated from my friends.

However, toward the end of my second-to-last year at school, God used me to help a Christian girl at school, who was in an abusive situation at home. It was then through her that I met some Christian friends who encouraged me, and helped me to grow heaps in God, and it was from that point on that I really had an intimate and personal relationship with God.

I am a very keen musician, and I feel that this is a powerful tool from God to inspire and motivate fellow Christians, as well as to challenge non-believers to question their own ‘reality’. I am looking forward to seeing God glorified through my music, and my life.