John
Chuman
Christian Surfers Peru Director
I was
born in an evangelical home, but I didn't want to know anything about the
things of God because everything put under an obligation. My parents took me
to the church almost for obligation. I remember that I played soccer before
in the "Cristal" football club and I could not go to the parties that were
on Sundays because they didn't allow to leave. I realized that that was not
what I looked for in the Christianity and I moved away from the things of
God. One day was after a new year surfing here in a beach to the south of
the Peru and I was brought near a man that I didn't know. Did it begin me to
speak, didn't I want to speak with him, first when He told me that they were
singing in a beach I thought that it was a "lornaza" singing what?... and
later I did begin him to ask and what did they sing, me being evangelical of
culture to bother it asks him you are evangelist or good Catholic?, does he
respond me, do you call me evangelical, Catholic, like want, is the only
thing that I know that I am a simple Christian. And He left me with the open
mouth, a seconds away He looks at me and tells me: I don't know You, I have
never spoken with you, I only love you that God loves you and He has a plan
for your life; in that moment my eyes began to emanate tears... I turn and I
tell him godfather I am also Christian alone that am remote... in the bank
we converse and from there I began to fix my things with God, that was 1997.
And what happens is that the word of God is as sword of two edges. It is the
perfect complement for any surfer.
John Chuman in Indonesia
