Some people go to Butlins to find fame as a Redcoat. Others hope for a holiday romance, while some just dream of a rain free weekend. But when Shaneen Clarke went to Britain’s best-known holiday camp, she found the one thing she least expected - God.

“Some Christians I knew had told me about a conference being held at the Butlins holiday camp at Bognor Regis Sussex,” explains Shaneen. “I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but I went along anyway. I sat down and was stunned when the speaker started talking about people searching for God but looking for him in the wrong places.”

The speaker’s words hit home with Shaneen, who was only 14 at the time, because she had been involved for over a year with the Jehovah‘s Witnesses. But she knew something wasn‘t right and had gone to the Butlins meeting hoping for answers.

“Some Jehovah‘s Witnesses had called at my house when I was alone and pretty vulnerable,” she explains. “I had been searching for God, so I invited them in and was swept up by what they told me. I joined them immediately and became a very active member.”

After her encounter with God at Butlins, Shaneen bravely returned to her Jehovah’s Witnesses church in a bid to convert the members. Not surprisingly, she wasn’t well received. “They just weren’t interested, so I had to leave,” she laughs. “I had been looking for God in all the wrong places. I was running around desperately seeking him. Then God found me. “I don’t suppose I would have thought a Butlins holiday camp in the most British of seaside towns was where I’d encounter him, but I’m just glad I did. My life has never been the same.”

Since that day in 1981, Shaneen, has travelled the world preaching the Good News and holding Bible teachings. She has held healing meetings in India and organised prayer meetings at London’s glamorous Ritz Hotel.

After her Butlins experience, Shaneen launched a youth group from her home before joining a church and going on to Bible college.

She felt the call to evangelise, spending long times, often four or five hours, in prayer. Her first sermon at the age of 16 was on the topic “Dare to be Great.” It is now the title of her first book, which will be published later this year.

Shaneen has a special calling to enable men and women to achieve their full, God given potential.

She founded a ministry called A Womans Call and speaks about issues close to every woman’s heart. “I am a wife, a mother and a businesswoman,” she explains. “I know all about the stresses and strains of trying to juggle a busy lifestyle. I know about dirty nappies and 2 AM feeds. I know about the pressure of making a good boardroom presentation and about achieving goals. I’m often asked if women can have it all. My answer is a definite ‘yes’ but only if Jesus is at the centre of our lives.”

Shaneen says Christian women should not look to TV shows like “Sex In The City” or racy magazines for answers to life’s challenges. She says the Bible is full of stories of heroic, godly women who achieved so much by anchoring their lives in God.

“There’s always some celebrity, however minor, giving the female point of view. But where is the Christian voice on sex, marriage or debt? What has the church to say about fashion, motherhood, work or the single life? We seem to have relegated God to an hour on Sunday morning and we take the secular viewpoint on these everyday issues. Well, as a Christian woman, I believe we need more than the latest Cosmo survey as our guide.”

She adds: “I chose the name A Woman’s Call because my ministry is to the whole woman. We talk about husbands, prayer, promotion, families and children, fashion and sex. Our starting point is always Scripture."

Shaneen is as comfortable talking to youth groups about the dangers of pre-marital sex as she is addressing a room full of CEO's about the need to share their wealth.

“There are women out there, not too dissimilar from the TV show, “Desperate Housewives,” says Shaneen. “They are living exclusive, gritty and glossy lives but ones which are racked with disappointment, guilt and emptiness. At the end of the day, it’s all about relationships, with ourselves as women, our families, our businesses and above all, God. Even superwomen have their poverty. The poverty of not knowing Jesus, and not even a corner office can compensate for that.”