God is going ahead [Erin's story]

Erin never had a lightning bolt moment. No dramatic conversion, no single day she can point to and say, "that's when everything changed." What she has instead is something just as compelling: a winding, honest, up-and-down story of a faith that kept finding her, even when she wasn't looking for it.In Part 1 of her Chip Lunch conversation, Erin joins Joel and Brayden from the Cronulla gathering and takes them through a life that's moved between worlds: the Shire and a small country town called Taralga, Port Hacking High and Goulburn High, Sunday school at Sylvania Uniting and a tiny Presbyterian church with under ten elderly attendees. Through all of it, faith was always in the background, sometimes loud, sometimes almost soft.Erin talks about what it's like to grow up Christian without ever really deciding to be one, the moment in her early 20s when she finally sat down and chose it for herself, and the harder season that followed: when she actively tried to walk away from God and found she couldn't, because deep down she still believed.There's also the school bus from Taralga to Goulburn, the country pub she worked at from age 15, a chemistry exam she stayed for exactly 20 minutes, and a career that stumbled its way from Donut King to HR through a series of open doors she didn't engineer but met a number of Christians along the way.Erin puts it simply at the end: no big moments, just a God who keeps going ahead and clearing the path.Part 2 is coming...