I entered a pop idol contest

My name is Jess and i'm from Wales. i'm 14 (15 tomorrow yey!).

Last June i entered a pop idol contest that was being run by my drama company. my director though that because i'd been with the company for so long (8 years and a half) i'd be awsome and i wouldnt have a problem. i gave them my backing track which was on a tape, and my director said that i didn't need a sound check they'd have it sorted by the beginning of the show. when it came to singing the song, they put the wrong backing track on which was too high for me and i totally messed up. so when the judge appologised for the mistake, my director was partly drunk and came on stage and said ' don't balme it on us its that slappers fault she cant sing'.... infront of a full auditorium of 500 people. in my horror i quickly put my head down and to prevent everyone from seeing me cry and looked toward the left wing. soo then i left the drama company which i loved and lost every last bit of confidence.

a few months later, on november the 6th, i became a part of the antioch church (which was originally my friday youth club) and i was asked to sing for the worship band and i rejected because i'd made myself believe that i couldn't sing. then in december i had to sing a song by myself in the christmas panto so i decided ithave a go but when we were practising the song i couldn't do it and got really frustrated and locked myself in the toilets because i was histerically crying. a few minutes later my my friends came up and realised how worked up i was...(because they didn't know about what happened in june) so they went to get ann and sian( long time christians) and they all prayed for me.

as they started praying in tounges i saw myself back on the stage but this time i looked toward the right wing and jesus was standing there with a staff and an amazingly funny smile on his face so naturally i started laughing and told them what i saw and everyone of them were crying. so they carried on and i couldn't see anything everything was black and suddenly i saw 'i believe in you' going past in orange like a screen saver...

so that night i didnt sing on stage i sang on the side with the band. but the next night i belted it out and i still have people asking me to sing to them. i couldn't thank him enough.

i now have all my confidence back and more and i'm in the worship band . we're called J Gen (meaning the jesus generation).

so if anyone would like to make any comments about my testimony, my email address is

youcandomagic@hotmail.co.uk
yours jessica
p.s. PRAISE THE LORD!!