A Chat with Sharen

Sharen, one of our incredible trainees from India, has been an absolute honour to have on the Newcastle/Manchester outreach. Sharen has been involved in leading worship, leading outreach days, renovating houses, doing club outreaches, sharing testimonies in youth groups and church services and so much more. We had a moment to reflect on all that God's done in Sharen's life and through her the other night and Sharen got to talk a bit about what growth she's seen in herself.

One of the areas she's most excited about is her new-found confidence in English culture. "Before DTS," Sharen says, "I was very bold in my place [India] but when I came to England, I became very nervous around people and was not very confident. This outreach has helped me to reach that confidence in myself and also in sharing my testimony, praying in English and doing evangelism."

"My favourite part of outreach is our team time. During one team time, we shared ways we wanted to challenge ourselves and I was so shocked."


During the first week of outreach, all of the team was asked in what way they wanted to be challenged. Sharen's challenge was to pray in English and to give her testimony in English. A few weeks later, we looked back on the challenges and the entire team applauded when realising Sharen had inherently met her challenge tenfold! It was in this moment our team realised we needed to set new challenges. Sharen rose to the occasion: "I told to the group that I wanted to share the gospel with one person... and the same night, we went to one place [The Globe International Student Café] and I shared the gospel with one person! I didn't even expect it to happen!" 

Sharen also was happy to report about how her times with God have changed during outreach.

"My relationship with God has grown a lot... a lot of the times I thought God was silent, but I learned that God was simply talking to me in new ways. I feel like God has used me in many ways in these two months, in ways sometimes I can't see but now I understand."