My name is Sarah Glover and I'm 15. Over the past 3 years, I have begun a transformation into a wonderful life where God and I are forming a stronger and stronger relationship. Thanks to Jars of Clay and other Christian bands, I am able to keep the fire which Jesus has started within me burning at all times. This is my story.

My family is not very religious, but as I found out they are very supportive of my beliefs. With the exception of my brother who thinks everything that he doesn't understand is stupid. (He'll get it later in life.) I have a great friend named Laura who was the first person to bring me to an awesome camp in NH called Camp Squanto.

Camp Squanto is a Christian camp where everyone is very supportive and open to everything. All of the counselors are very understanding and helpful when it comes to allowing someone search for their own beliefs. And that's what I needed to do.

Over the past 3 years, I have done a 360 in my ideas and beliefs in God. My first year of camp I was in Bible hour and I remember thinking to myself, "what the heck are these people doing??". That year I was just introduced to God's wonderful love and didn't really understand what I was doing and thought that I didn't fit in or something because I never had read the Bible or anything like that.

We had the most awesome pastors at camp; each year they got better and seemed to understand my situation more and more. I was beginning to learn that I wasn't alone in the world and even if I had fights with my friends and family, I would always have someone with me who would always understand and help me be a good person.

My second and third years I began my own little "soul investigation." These past 2 years I have started growing into God's land and love, and I found that I needed a way to keep my loving fire for God alive. Because after camp, I would be really close to God. But my prayers and realtionship with Him would seem to taper off the longer that I was away from others like myself who believe in God.

Well, there are always camp videos of the week for sale and my friend bought me one for x-mas. When we started watching it there was this really touching music playing, and fortune have it it was Jars of Clay. And I borrowed the CD from Laura's sis and taped it. I found that most every song was about the truths and everything about life. Well to make a longer story short. I bought "If I Left the Zoo" and absolutely loved it. Your music really has helped me speak up about God and not be ashamed about my beliefs. Thank you so much :)

Yours in Christ, Sarah Glover