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Archive for December, 2008

In 2000, my mother died and I was devastated.  I believe God knew what He was doing because I would have followed my mother in death if He had not intervened.  I went to jail from 2000 to 2002 for things I am still very ashamed to talk about.  My brother was killed on memorial [...]

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Their journey together began in January 1957, when Dr. George as a 19-year-old evangelist was preaching a series of revival services in a small Assemblies of God Church in Abilene, Texas.  During the first service, he met what he terms “the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, 17-year-old Gwen Rogers.”  They married five months [...]

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Years later, a business encounter with Dr. Tony Evans led him to attend a service at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, where he heard the parable of the rich man hoarding his fortune in barns, who with a very short notice and no time to change, died and left it all.  He knew he was that [...]

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Due to an unexpected disability, Pastor John lost his job. Because of his passion for the lost souls in the jungles of India, Pastor John knew that this was his opportunity for full time mission work.  With no church, organization, or sponsor to support him, Pastor John  began using his savings and his wife’s salary [...]

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Then they asked Tyrone to get out of the car.  As he put one leg out of the car, he was shot three times in the stomach, back and arm.  Although seriously injured, Tyrone lay like he was dead.  The hit men then drove the car over him twice.  The heat from the muffler and [...]

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I was given a mission once I was released from prison to continue the program outside. We developed a successful partnership wherein the Bishop worked inside the prison walls and I worked outside the prison walls.  Our main mission states that “we will be as lighthouses and God is the light, shining out into the [...]

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Up until I was thirteen years old, I was constantly raped and molested by my biological grandfather.  I had hatred towards him and have had thoughts of killing him but I am not going to do it because I know God is killing him right now. I’ have done every kind of drug out there [...]

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My heavy heart ached with disappointment.  Suddenly, something mysterious happened. At first, I heard a noise like a rushing wind. Drops like rain began falling where I sat. The drops fell all around me, on my Muslim attire, on my head covering, and on my prayer rug. When I rubbed the drop …

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On any given day or night, we have drug dealers and users, prostitutes, mentally ill, formerly incarcerated, broken families and broken people stopping by our church for a hot meal, clothing, a place to lay their head, and the love of Jesus.  We are a 24 hour spot that they come to for refuge.   We [...]

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From the moment the plane crashed until the rescuers found us there was a lapse of 18 hours that we were stranded on that mountain. Eighteen hours felt like a very long time, all I could do was sit and think.  To keep from focusing on all the death and devastation around me, I concentrated [...]

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