Archive for November, 2013

On November 24, 2013 Brandon Lee will be confirmed… and join as a full fledged member of our church. Here is his testimony:

“When I think about life I think of life as a book. My book has ripped pages, dirty pages and even pages that have been ripped out. I grew up in a Christian family so I did Christian things and did Christian stuff. But at that time if someone would have asked me who Jesus was I couldn’t have answered.

Before I became a Christian I found myself constantly looking for new things. Even after I was hooked to the “new thing” I would eventually get bored with it and search for something else. I now realize that I was trying to fill a hole that I could not fill.

Growing up in a Christian home I knew that Jesus died on the cross for me and that if I believed in him then I would be clean. So during the summer of 2012, Jesus came into my life and I acknowledged that I am a sinner, looking in the wrong places searching for God’s love. Finally i found someone (God) who can tape my old pages and put new pages into my book.

Since becoming a Christian, God has made me into a new being. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”. Though I am not perfect God has shown me that my actions good or bad does not make God love me any less. And where I have failed over and over, God has yet to fail.

Tomorrow (11/24/13), Cristin is getting confirmed… or publicly declaring her faith in Christ and joining our church as a member. Here is her testimony:

“I was born into a Christian family, I went to church on Sundays and knew that Jesus died on the cross for us and how we should do everything for the glory of God and I had a jumble of head knowledge. But I knew only about Him and I never knew Him. This summer, I went to a retreat and I wasn’t expecting anything much…signing up for retreats was simply what I was used to doing. But during the retreat God revealed Himself to me. It’s solely because of God’s grace that I was saved and it is by His grace that I grow and mature in Christ. I could not have loved God if He had not worked in my heart to change me. God’s working in me every day cause the walk with God is a long, slow walk and I’ve just barely begun my journey with Christ.”