Mary Yeo’s Baptism Testimony on Fri, 31 August 2007

Mary was invited up on stage to give her testimony during her baptism day. As she spoke, I saw how awesome God was and is. A story of how God's LOVE is real and life-changing. This truely shows that God has a wonderful plan for those who love Him.

1) Before I trusted Christ, I always kept my emotions to myself, always putting up a strong exterior when actually I was very hurt and empty inside.

When I was young my parents often have violent quarrels very late at night and police officers often visited my house. I always had fear – “Would my parents get hurt? Would they get arrested?” I questioned why my family is different from others, who are happy and the children are so carefree, I hated my family then and I wanted to die. I attempted suicide when I was nine, but I guess it didn’t succeed, if not I wouldn’t be here. But I never ever told anyone what I went through – sometimes, it hurt even more when you share but others don’t understand or don’t bother.

What was ironic was the fact that I held many key leadership positions in school – prefect, President, Officer, and Treasurer. I even became a listening ear to many of my friends who poured out their problems to me. I appeared so strong to others, but I was just all empty inside. There was a period when I would cry every single day over what I was going through; I was simply broken to the core. Yet I still kept everything to myself, nobody knew what I felt, not even my family. (Read on...)

2) It was a miracle how I came to give my life to Jesus.

In 2005, during one of my community service involvements in SMU, I got to know Pastor Seng Lee. Later that year, one of my JC teachers, John Lim, passed away with his wife in an accident, on their honeymoon. I went to the wake, not knowing that Pastor Seng Lee was going to preach a message there. What touched me the most in his message was “how much the couple would like to see the people they love believe in Christ, how much they yearn for them to be reunited with them in heaven.” I thought of my family, my loved ones, I cried uncontrollably, I received Christ at the wake.

3) When I came to FCBC, what I found and felt most was love. I was welcomed into a spiritual family who loved me unconditionally, with no strings attached. Through them, I was shown the love of God! Thank God for Camilla, my spiritual mummy, and for the SengLee-Josephine Tribe.

I still remembered at the very first tribe meeting I attended under Pastor Seng Lee, he prayed for me using the story about “Footprints in the Sand”. The times that I was hurting, God was carrying me, protecting me. That explains why there was only one set of footprints in the sand. And as those hurting scenes of the past flashed, I can see that God was there with me in every scene. I wasn’t as alone and as helpless as I thought I was. When I was doing wrong or crying, He was there with me, weeping even more for me.

God helped me to release many of my strongholds and baggage of hurts. I can enjoy the fellowship and openly share with my spiritual family here in church now. When I knew that God is with me always, when I finally understand what it meant when Jesus died on the cross to wash away my sins, I saw life in a different light. A lot of things which used to matter – being self-centered, defensive, being easily hurt, they don’t matter anymore.

For my real family, it is so much more peaceful as compared to the past. There are fewer quarrels now; I really could feel so much more love in the family. Reflecting back, this transformation can only be described as a miracle. God is so good. And I believe this happened because my spiritual family here at FCBC always helped to pray for my own family… and they also helped out physically, to reach out and to support my family.


Right now I want you to touch your hearts and ask yourself, which one of you here do not have a family problem? If your family doesn’t, praise the Lord for your family. But there are many more families I know that are facing so many problems, so much hurt, don’t you just wish things would change? You know what? God changed my family. There is so much more harmony in the family nowadays. He wants to do the same for yours.

And I also want to say, no matter how much you think you have backslided and drifted away from God, how much you think you have been behaving sinfully, or you felt that God has forsaken you and given up on you, or that you are unworthy to be loved by God, I want to tell you, it is NOT TRUE. God is the father who wants to receive you back with wide open arms. He is always waiting for you to turn back to Him, He is always waiting for you to give Him a chance to love you. Give Him that chance..


Mary Yeo
Camilla's Sub-tribe