‘God told me to transform a van into a beauty salon’

When Mariana Matos gave her life to Jesus, she asked him to use her but never imagined it would be through blessing vulnerable women as a beautician. 

I arrived in England from Portugal in 2015, and became a Christian when I was 29 in 2017. It was then that I began to question my purpose in life.

I felt God calling me to something undefined but significant. I often told my colleagues at the beauty salon where I worked that I was going to leave my job as a beauty therapist and do something for God.