INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF FAITH TO SAT-7 TÜRK

Kaya works in the Audience Relations team for SAT-7 TÜRK, talking to viewers about faith and praying for them. Despite his young years, Kaya’s calm attitude, maturity, and wise insight make him a valuable asset to the team. Listening to his remarkable journey to faith, it becomes clear why he has such a passion for his role.

THE SEARCH BEGINS

“I don’t come from a Christian background, but I found God when I was twelve years old.

I grew up with a lot of religious people around me. Faith interested me, and I started researching different religions on the internet, but I had a preconception that Christianity was bad.”

A LIFE CHANGING WALK

“My father took me for a walk one day, and he took me to a church. He just wanted to go for a walk, but I believe that God used my father without him realising it.

As soon as I stepped inside the church, I felt like I had entered a different world, and I was filled with peace. When I look back on it, I realise that it was the Holy Spirit.”

Kaya pauses, his testimony brings up a lot of emotions and he takes a deep breath and composes himself. After apologising, he continues.

“For a year I continued to search and think about God. I was very confused, but I just prayed ‘God guide me to the truth.’”

ENCOUNTERING CHRIST

“On Christmas Eve, I was reading the Bible and suddenly I felt that Jesus Christ stood in front of me. I couldn’t grasp what was happening at the time.

I immediately got down on my knees and said, ‘Jesus Christ I believe in you’.

I was twelve years old at the time, but I knew that I had found my purpose in life.”

LITTLE WARRIOR – BIG FAITH

“Telling my family, and the consequences, was the most difficult time of my life.” Kaya continues with a crooked smile. “I was a little warrior when I was twelve. When I read the Bible, I would take it very literally. I would apply it exactly as I understood it. The verse I read at the time was ‘Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me.’ (Matthew 10:37).

When I read this, I accepted it immediately.

I sat down and prayed, asking God when he wanted me to tell my parents that I was a Christian. I gave God a condition, I said, ‘If you want me to tell my parents that I am a Christian, they have to come to me and ask me a question about it’.

Five minutes later, my mother came into my room, saw the cross hanging from my neck and asked ‘What’s that? Are you a Christian?’

I replied, ‘Yes I am’.”

DIFFICULT YEARS

“My mother started crying, there was no way she could accept this. It was as if I was a murderer. For a very long time, I fought with my parents as they tried to convince me about their faith. They wanted to take me to all the big religious houses and the religious elders. But I refused to go.

For two years they only allowed me to leave the house for school because they didn’t want me to go to a church.

One day, I found the opportunity to go to a church and I was able to find a Bible and two books to take home with me. A man in the corner of the church noticed my interest in the books and offered me many more, which I gladly took.

I would constantly read them in secret, hiding them from my parents if they came in the room. My parents didn’t want me to leave the house, my father even used violence because he thought he could convert me by beating me.”

AN UNEASY TRUCE

“Gradually, as if nothing had happened, my family forgot. To deceive themselves they all acted as if I had never become a Christian. They still pretend, but inside, they know that I am a Christian.

It’s still like this today. When I have saved up money and when I am ready, I will leave home, and before leaving, I will tell them about the Bible.”