TESTIMONIES

Sharing how GOD has transformed our lives.

My name is Kenneth and I got saved July 1997. I grew up around drugs so that quickly became my lifestyle. At an early age I began to break into houses, steal and when that was not enough I began to deal drugs. I was so lost in that lifestyle I didn't care about anyone or anything .I could never hold a steady job. I would drink liquor by the gallons and get high before I would go to work. I was doing cocaine and crack, I even woke up one morning full of blood and had no idea what had happened to me or how I had gotten home. Come to found out the next morning, I had driven into someone’s house. Everyone always told me that I would never live to see my 30's and that I would never amount to anything. So I continued to live the fast life, but inside I was running dry. I had nothing to show for the life I had. My best friend and I had not seen each other for a while, and when I ran into him he said he had gotten saved. I could not believe that he could change and I could not believe that God could change me. Then my aunt invited me to her church and I got saved... God by his mercy and grace transformed my life, and set me free from sin. I have never touched a drink or any drugs since then. I have stability in my life, I am married with three children and I just turned 42. I thank God that he spared my life, and thank him daily for saving me.

My name is Michelle and I got saved when I was 14 years old. I had known about religion but never about salvation. I never did drugs, but I did begin to drink and smoke at an early age. I was looking to fill a void of emptiness in my life. At that time I hated being around anyone, my family life was full of horrible problems. I was full of bitterness and felt so alone, one night I thought I could just end it all and I tried to commit suicide. The strange thing was I had a fear in me, what would happen to me if I died. About a month later a friend invited me to see "The Big Three" at a YMCA in Rosenberg .The movie scared me , I did not want to end up like Patty and the preaching made me realize that I was lost. For the first time, I knew what a sinner was and it was me. I prayed that night and I asked Jesus to come into my heart. I am so thankful for those who invested in me and never gave up. I am now 36, married with three miracle children and I thank God for saving me and for the grace and mercy he has had on my life.

My name is Joe Spachek and I was raised in a very religious Catholic family with five brothers and one sister.We went to church every Sunday and never missed a holy day of obligation.Private Catholic schooling taught me that if I did enough good works that they would out weigh the bad. Hell was a place only for the bad people and since I was mostly good, heaven would be where I’d spend eternity with God. The bible says that we are not promised tomorrow and also that our life is but a vapor, here one moment and gone the next. Only through repentance and a relationship with Jesus Christ can you make heaven your home.I left San Antonio after high school to College Station for the next six years. Freedom from my parents and being on my own opened the door to all the youthful lusts of the flesh. I rejected God’s love for me and instead did whatever I wanted to make me feel good. I married a girl and was divorced one year later because without God two can not become one flesh.A couple years later, I met Kayne at a Catholic youth group meeting. We were married less than five months later. We didn’t understand what true love was but we were learning. My wife and I started going to church with some friends and through their example and influence we opened-up to the Gospel message. It wasn’t just about going to church on Sunday or performing the right rituals. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and He will bless you. God began to change our hearts and on November 23, 1992 we prayed with my brother Mat for Jesus Christ to forgive our sins and save us. In the spring of 1992, we began attending The Potter’s House Christian Fellowship Church where the Gospel is preached, disciples are made and Jesus is Lord.

My name is Kayne Spachek and I’ve been saved since November 23, 1992. I am so thankful to God for my salvation! Before getting saved, I was a very independent, self-sufficient person. I was in management at my job getting paid good money and had no concept of surrendering my life to anyone or anything. I thought I was going to heaven because I was in church every weekend and told others I would not do this or that because I was “too religious”. Yet, I was petrified of dying. I always had this idea that I did not want to get married before I was 25 but somehow when I turned 25, my future husband would appear. I did not meet Joe until I was 28 so for three years, I worried about getting married. I just knew that getting married would fill every void in my heart. We met in August 1991 and were married in December 1991. Yet still, as much as we loved each other, I still knew something was missing. In 1992, we were involved in a business. I met someone through that business that was going through a lot of struggles. Yet she still had such a peace about her. I asked her one day how she could be so content in her troubles and she said that she knew Jesus. I was born and raised Catholic and told her I knew Jesus too. She asked if I knew Him with my head or my heart. When I didn’t understand, she told me about a personal relationship with Christ. At that time, Joe’s brother, Mat, was also witnessing to us. We went to Mat and Blanca’s wedding in Pastor Rubi’s church and during the altar call, I raised my hand to get saved. But, when he asked us to come forward, I looked up at him and shook my head no. Pastor Rubi said he wasn’t trying to embarrass us but to help. I shook my head no and looked down again. I was too embarrassed in front of Joe’s family to go to the altar because we were newly married and I didn’t know what they would think. Later that year, in November, Joe and I were both on the phone with Mat and he asked if we had ever prayed a prayer of salvation. I said no, and Joe said he had said a prayer in high school but was probably backslidden. So we prayed with Mat over the phone that day and have never regretted it.God is so faithful. He died so that we might live. While He does not promise us a life without trials, He does promise that He will walk with us through those trials. I remember one specific time when we were really struggling with something, yet I actually felt His presence during that trial, giving me the strength to continue in His will and not choose my own. If you have never given your life to Him, give Him a chance to prove that He is all His word says He is. Our final destination is the main focus of our lives here on earth and to spend eternity with Him will make any trial or trouble worthwhile. He will accept you as you are and save you without hesitation if you are truly willing. You will not regret it.

MY NAME IS JOHN DORSEY A.K.A URBAN AMBASSADOR ........IN 1997 I WORKED FOR THE HISD SCHOOL DISTRICT...& ONE DAY WHILE I WAS WORKING, A SCHOOL TEACHER PRESENTED ME WITH THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL, & I KNEW I WAS TIRED OF HOW MY LIFE WAS GOING,& AT THAT TIME I WAS CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE & I NEEDED A CHANGE IN MY LIFE,I KNEW I WASN'T A BAD PERSON BUT I NEW I WASN'T A GOOD PERSON EITHER,WHEN HEAVEN & HELL WAS PERSENTED TOO ME,I KNEW I DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO HELL & THAT I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THERE, SO I GAVE MY LIFE TO JESUS THA "CHRIST",BEFORE THEN I KNEW WHO JESUS WAS BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM,SO JESUS BECAME MY KING.

My name is Dolores Perkins and I was a so called of Catholic faith, which really didn’t mean anything to me but a lot of up and down and kneeling and a language I didn’t understand. I use to pray to a statue called the Virgin Mary, Not to God mind you, which this statue (Ideology) couldn’t do anything for me. I rarely ever had to, or even went to church Oh I knew there was a God, but I didn’t know him on a personal level. Then I was saved back in 2000. Unfortunately I didn’t stay saved I went back to the world. I was out in the world doing ungodly things drinking, smoking and fornicating and thinking life was good. But in reality I was lost and empty; thoughts of suicide had played in my head over several periods of my lifetime. But I believe that it was God that kept speaking to me NOT to do this, and that I WOULD GO TO HELL, if I did this! Then one day my brother David and niece ‘Staci called to ask if I would like to go to this drama “Mi Vida Loca” (My Crazy Life) right! That this church was having one night, I said sure that I would give an effort to go. Then I received a call stating they were not going to be able to go themselves, but Satan was on me, telling me I could go some other time that I could just stay at home and chill and drink & visit my neighbors. (Waste my life and time in reality) But something just kept telling me to go, so I called to get directions but Satan was still there telling me the whole time I really didn’t want to go, stay at home. I was just sitting there on my couch, feeling empty inside and something just snapped in me to just grab my keys get in my car and go. And I praise God everyday that I did, once again I was saved in July 2008 and I gave my life to Jesus that night, from that moment I began to change inside, I had no desire to live in sin any longer. I had asked Jesus into my life and he was there for me, as always, I just didn’t realize on how much he was. I started going to church but still not living right with God and I asked Jesus, to help guide me into the right path and it was as if Pastor Glen’s sermons was directed right at me giving me convictions when it was Jesus answering me all three times when I asked for his help. I approached the altar that night I received my third answer and after my daughter Lorie asked me how many times does he have to answer you lady? I turned and smiled and answered her no more and I gave all my burdens to Jesus. God has put back peace, joy and serenity into my life in so many ways I don’t ever want to go back. And through JESUS CHRIST, I know I will succeed. I still get convictions at times, but I know that’s Jesus talking to me, and too others that needs to hear his answers. Oh Satan still jumps on me through people & situations, but then I tell him that he's a Liar and I keep on steppin in faith.

My name is Lorie Wright. I have always gone to church & have always believed in GOD but have never had a personal relationship with him. I have gone to all kinds of churches as a kid & an adult. If you asked me to go, I took it as a sign GOD wanted me there & I loved going to church & the message was always on time. I always considered my self a good person & that all my good deeds would out way my bad ones. I never did drugs or anything like that but when you get to know GOD, you know sin is sin & my Margarita parties & cursing & fornication gave me a one way ticket there & the sad thing is my friends & I joked about it even though I knew in my heart that was the last place I wanted to be. In 2000 my Uncle asked my live in boyfriend, my mom, my cousin, my cousin’s live in boyfriend, & I to go to church with him. So we did & we all got saved that day and we’re baptized shortly after and then married because it was the right thing to do by GOD. We’ll both couples took a different path. My cousin & her husband continued to serve GOD & my husband & I went back into the world…and to our normal pattern. My marriage was broken & headed for divorce & tried to fill the hurt & void with other relationships and material things & alcohol. But nothing could fill that void until I came back to Christ in July 2008; he took away the pain & fulfilled me. This time around I truly have a personal relationship with GOD; I am no longer going to Hell and as far as my marriage it is still headed for divorce not by GODS plan, but HE will bless me with one that serves him, in HIS due time-not mine. But I Thank GOD that he has never left my side during the time Lorie did what Lorie wanted to do. It hasn’t been easy because once you truly give your life to GOD the devil pounds on you even harder. But what GOD has to offer is way better than the world.