Lily Freeman

My name is Lily Freeman and I have been attending to the UCKG for the past 2 years and half. The main reason that brought me to the church was the great need to overcome depression and other emotional problems.

I suffered from depression since my teens and it has aggravated due to my unsuccessful professional career. I could not keep a job for long and have worked in more than 05 different places over the past few years.
In a particular one, my employment was terminated after 3 months and that brought me lots of sadness and shame to the point of being on anti-depressive tablets and sleeping pills. Since then I nurtured my low self-esteem and felt not fit for any job.
Recently I was working for a company for the past 2 years what was already a blessing achieved in the UCKG, but I did not have much, financially speaking; what I had was just enough and I was grateful for that; sometimes I did not see a way out to change my financial life.
But God did more than enough in my life and I did not want to be ungrateful. I reached my comfortable zone until I heard of one testimony on professional life and it was when I got revolted with the little I had. I left the church crying, feeling left out.
I drove at about 11pm back to the church, even though it was closed, but I knew God was there to listen to my cry out. I did not want to continue at my working place; I wanted something big even though I doubted of my experience.
So I decided to take 3 weeks off and look for a new job.
To my surprise, the very same company I had worked for - the root of my low self-esteem - was advertising a great position so I applied not expecting much. I wanted to show that company that I was employable, I wanted my self-esteem back, I wanted to step up against my fears and the shame.
I was called for an interview, which I did not show up because the experience required was far beyond my qualifications. Funny enough, I got a phone call insisting on an interview, in course of this I was not pleased with the salary offered, and I turned them down.
Three weeks later, the Country Manager called me again and offered me the job with the salary I wanted plus bounces.
And now I hold a position of Account Executive coordinating 09 Sales Manager and another Accountant Executive exactly where, years ago, I had my employment terminated.

I still affirm I do not hold the experience needed but God empowered me to overcome my insecurities and showed that, with Him, I can make it.