My name is Sabrina and I am 24 years old. Before finding out about the work of the Universal Church, my life was completely ruined.

At the age of 8 my stepfather’s brother sexually abused me. The last time I was abused, my ex-stepfather came home while he was in the act and attacked him, cutting his face with a knife. His family said that I would get pay back in the same coin.

From that moment on the torment began in my life. At the age of 14, I began drinking, smoking cigarettes and doing drugs. I slept around with several young men, and women too, in order to fill the void that existed in me, which led me to sink deeper into alcoholism. At the age of 21 I was completely addicted, I had to drink every day to fulfill that need. My breakfast was a can of beer.

On a Sunday, which also happened to be Mother’s Day, as I walked outside, I saw a strange woman hitting my younger brother, who was already bleeding. So I ran over and pushed her. I picked my brother up from the floor. While I did this, she broke a glass cup on my head. When I turned around, she stuck the broken glass into my cheek, cutting across the left side of my face, from the top of my head down to my neck.

I was rushed to the hospital, unconscious, hanging between life and death. I received 182 stitches, and it was necessary to give me blood. The hospital didn’t have many resources and I had to be operated in the morgue. For two months I ate through a feeding tube. After this, I fell into a deep depression as a consequence of the attack, and because all of my hair had to be cut off. I was in such a bad state of mind that I was issued a certificate of insanity.

I tried to kill myself twice. For my first attempt, I combined various medicines with rum, and for the second attempt, I tried to hang myself with a bed sheet, but it ripped.

Because I harbored so much hatred and a hunger for revenge, I tried to kill the girl that cut me twice. I wanted to see her completely destroyed. But, thank God, my attempts were unsuccessful.

At this stage in my life, I no longer had a positive perspective of the future.

But everything changed when, through an invitation, I came to the Universal Church, where I sought help. With this help, I saw my life change. I forgave the girl that cut me and I also forgave my stepfather’s brother, who abused me. This was how I freed myself from all the grief. I was able to truly know the Lord Jesus.

Today, I am a transformed youth. I am free from the addictions, depression, homosexual tendencies and everything else that led me to a sad and empty life. I received the Holy Spirit and now I am happy to be alive. And I want to share the joy that I have with as many people as possible, to help them transform their lives just like mine was transformed.

Sabrina