Testimony of Eileen O’Keeffe


I grew up in the north side of cork city. I always had a great relationship with my Granddad who was one of the first people who had a love for Jesus that was not like any other that I’ve seen before. My Granddad died on 16th of January, 1999. His death was a great loss to me.

I was 19 years old when I began to experiment with the night life, and the parties, and alcohol. I was seeking the high from it all, and a confidence that seemed to go with it, but I kept experiencing hurt and emptiness.

At the age of 22 years, after getting hurt, I realized that I had enough of this painful dark life; I began to pray to Jesus to help me. I had gone through nine months of a very hard pregnancy with only my family to help me out. During that time my mum, Lily and Brother Weston, asked me to come to church with them. I didn’t go at that time because I thought I would be meeting a judgmental type of people.

But then in April of 2002, after the birth of my beautiful daughter Lydia I began to attending church, where I was greeted with Love and respect. Each week in that church of Blarney Baptist church I heard the word of God preached, and as I listened I realised that Jesus loves me and died for my sins, then one Sunday morning on the 23rd of June during the Lord’s Supper, with the fear of God, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Saviour. Not only was I saved from hell, Jesus Christ healed me from all past hurts.

Since that wonderful day my life has changed. I have gained a new appreciation of life. The Lord blessed me with a wonderful husband named Kevin O’Keeffe, who has helped me to keep strong in the Lord. We got married on the 3rd of September 2003 and have now three blessed girls, Lydia, Rebekah, and, Rachel.

The Lord has called us now as a family to do His work. He has Blessed Kevin greatly with the knowledge of his Word. He teaches us as a family to keep strong in Christ. We now want to devote our lives to help others to know Christ as their own personal Saviour.

1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Amen.