Hanging with the Wrong Crowd - reallifestoriesbooks.com

I grew up in a Christian home. We went to church every Sunday morning and evening, plus on Wednesday. I lived with my mom in Memphis, Tennessee until I was 15. I accepted Christ at a young age and was baptized around the age of 9 or 10. I believe I was sincere about my decision at the time.

As I got into Middle School, I started hanging with the wrong crowd. I started drinking, smoking, and experimenting with drugs. When my mom found out, she sent me to my dad’s in Wisconsin. I still drank and smoked with my dad’s permission, but I didn’t do drugs.

After High School, I joined the Navy and got married. During this time, I had walked away from God. I got into porn and committed adultery on my first wife. She was doing it to me, so I figured I would do it to her.

After the service, I started Truck Drivers Ministry. I fell further from God. I became addicted to porn and got married to my second wife. I kept drinking and watching porn, which kept me from showing my wife the affection she deserved. It damaged me, and I ended up getting married again before I met my current wife.

In 2010, we went back on the road and came across a Rig CD entitled “Dominoes” by James Payne. That CD lit a fire in our soul. We started searching truck stops for more CD’s. We got the “Free in Christ” CD, which God used to bring me back to him. I believe whole heartedly in media ministries. God is using CD’s to bring people to Him. I still struggle with things, but I now can call on Jesus, and He will give me strength to get through the day.

Friend, you can call on Jesus too! Go ahead and call out to Him right now!

Contact  :  Jim Barbarossa

Phone :       219-762-7589

Website : reallifestoriesbooks.com

Email :jim@step-by-step.org                              

 

I Started Truck Driving - Real Life Stories Of Hope

 

I grew up in a Christian home. We went to church every Sunday morning and evening, plus on Wednesday. I lived with my mom in Memphis, Tennessee until I was 15. I accepted Christ at a young age and was baptized around the age of 9 or 10. I believe I was sincere about my decision at the time.

As I got into Middle School, I started hanging with the wrong crowd. I started drinking, smoking, and experimenting with drugs. When my mom found out, she sent me to my dad’s in Wisconsin. I still drank and smoked with my dad’s permission, but I didn’t do drugs.

After High School, I joined the Navy and got married. During this time, I had walked away from God. I got into porn and committed adultery on my first wife. She was doing it to me, so I figured I would do it to her.

After the service, I started Christian Truck Drivers. I fell further from God. I became addicted to porn and got married to my second wife. I kept drinking and watching porn, which kept me from showing my wife the affection she deserved. It damaged me, and I ended up getting married again before I met my current wife.

In 2010, we went back on the road and came across a Rig CD entitled “Dominoes” by James Payne. That CD lit a fire in our soul. We started searching truck stops for more CD’s. We got the “Free in Christ” CD, which God used to bring me back to him. I believe whole heartedly in media ministries. God is using CD’s to bring people to Him. I still struggle with things, but I now can call on Jesus, and He will give me strength to get through the day.

Friend, you can call on Jesus too! Go ahead and call out to Him right now!

Jason

Cottondale, Alabama

205-919-4154

jleerich48@hotmail.com

Book Discipleship Resources

 

When Real Life Stories Lighthouse Christian Testimony Book Displays are placed in business locations they become Mission  Bases !
Every book becomes a Missionary !
 
The words “Free Take One ” on the Book Display, along with a Beautiful book cover attract the attention of business customers causing them to pick up the book and “Freely, by their own choice or  will”  take it home!
It is not pushed on them and by their own choice they will read it !    
 
This little Missionary has now gained entrance into a person’s home and life !
 
As the person starts to read the book the little missionary will be used by the Holy Spirit to now gain permission to enter the person’s heart !
 
Over the years, many people have received Jesus as Savior as a result of picking up and reading these “Free” Books.
 

Cost to have Your Story in a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book

 

Witnesses and Testimonies Wanted! 
Please  consider writing your testimony for the next Lighthouse Book of Real Life Stories.

To be a part of this book you must agree to carry 2 books in hand every day and use them to give to lost people in your community as the Holy Spirit directs you . 2 books a day would be about 720 books a year.
 
The subtitle of the book is “Life Has Many Storms.”  Due Date is NOW! Release form is attached . Testimony will not be accepted without release form.
 
Guidelines to Help You to Write Your Story/Testimony for a 3-Fold Flyer or Book.
Part 1 - Describe what your life was like before coming to the Lord.
Part 2 - Tell how you came to the Lord.
Part 3 - Describe what your life is like now.
Describe the changes between part 1 and part 3. Brag on God and what He has done for you!
 
Tell your story in the order that it happened. Do not bounce around from the present to the past. Use your age to help you tell the story. Start sharing your life from say age 3 to 10, then tell some things from age 11 to 20, then 20 to 30, etc.
 
Do not insert scripture in your story. It is ok to put a favorite verse at the end that pertains to salvation.  Just tell your story. Keep it simple. Do not thank God at the end of every sentence. Just tell your story. Do not try to teach in your story. Just tell your story. It is ok to add 1 or 2 of your favorite scriptures near the end of your story.          
 
Paint a picture with your words!
 
∙Finish by signing your testimony with your first name.  
∙Place your cell phone number and email address at the end of story.   
 Please use a phone and email address that will remain active for many, many years ahead.( 90 % of the people that respond to the books call or text. I have prayed several people through suicide) A story without a phone number serves no purpose! We all need to learn to be available and minister to hurting people!   We will also add the church or ministry contact info, please provide it. (Name, address, phone number, text number, email address.)  But this does not replace the personal contact info!
 
Do not worry about a title. We will take care of it.
 
Do not talk in Christian language. Talk or write in plain simple English. Remember your audience is a lost soul. Your purpose in writing this is to reach lost souls. Do not preach! Do not teach! Do not share your pet doctrines! Simply share what Jesus has done for you and will do for the reader.Did not push or slam any denominations. Do not drop names of important people or places. Use only first names if you refer to other people in your story.   
 
The length of your written testimony should be around 1000 to 1100 words.Along with your testimony, fill out a “Release Form,” and send it back to us .You can request a release form at this email jimbarbarossa7@gmail.com  
 
For those who can do so, please print the Release Form, complete it, scan it, and email it back.   
If you are mailing the form, please send it to the following address:
 
                Jim Barbarossa
                815 S. Babcock Rd
                Porter, IN 46304
 
If submitting your story for a book, we will need a picture.Here are the guidelines: ∙Take a head to chest picture with a nice big smile!  ∙Stand in front of a white, beige, or light blue wall with nothing else in the background.  ∙Do not crop or edit the photo.  ∙Send it as a full-sized jpeg in high resolution.
  
If you have any questions or need any additional help, please ask. Email jimbarbarossa7@gmail.com 
or call 219-762-7589.
  
Your 720 books will cost $600 , which is due at the time of submitting your testimony. Your story will be in one printing of at least 20,000 books. A check can be sent to Step-By-Step Ministries at the above address. Testimonies will not be accepted without payment. You can also pay for the books with PayPal or credit card by calling Jim at 219-762-7589 with your information.( 4% added on with Pay Pal or Credit Card )  Shipping would be an extra charge.
 
If you would like, even more books to use, the best way to participate, is become a monthly contributor. For $ 100 monthly donation you will receive  3 cases of books, (210 books every month)! Plus shipping.        
 
If for any reason we cannot use your story in the book we will give you a full refund .
 
Shalom,
 
Jim and Carla 
 
Please pass this information on to people in your sphere of influence!

www.reallifestoriesbooks.com
Jim and Carla Barbarossa
Step By Step Ministries
219-762-7589

Prison Ministry Book Resources – REAL LIFE STORIES

 Real Life Stories Inmate to Inmate Prison Ministry Book have gone into over 350 jails and prisons across the United States. They are also in use in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Inmate to Inmate Real Life Stories contain the salvation testimonies of 30 Born Again Inmates. In between the testimonies are truth pages filled with the Word of God.Unsaved Inmates love these books because they can relate to the stories.

Born Again inmates use these books as their primary way to share Jesus with other inmates. Guards, Wardens, and Chaplains all welcome the use of Inmate to Inmate Christian Testimonies Books!

The people you have just read about had to come to a place of knowing, understanding, and accepting the truth before their lives could be changed.

As you read through these “Truths” in the pages ahead, take time to think about your life. These truths, when received, invite you into a loving relationship with God that will bring you peace, joy, and personal transformation to discover and fulfill your life’s purpose and destiny.

Throughout the rest of this book, in between the many more “Real Life Stories,” we will share some of these truths with you.

The Inmate to Inmate books are also being effectively used in high crime, high drug, and gang type neighborhoods!  

Prayerfully consider getting some of these books into prisons, jails and gang neighborhoods in your city. 

The Witnessing Tool

Real Life Stories Books provides salvation of soul

Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books are proving to be way more effective at getting into the hands of lost souls then gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts and salvation tracts.

Over the years, we have personally used gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts, and salvation tracts and found that many people would take them, and immediately through them away. On the other hand, we have now used Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books for about 18 years and have found that no one throws them away.

Several years ago during a fourth of July parade, we passed out 3000 Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books. Other people passed out gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts and salvation tracts, church information, ministry information, and many types of business information.

After the parade, Carla and I walked the entire parade route back to the beginning. During are walk back we could not believe all the advertising, flyers, and paper of all Kinds that were left behind. It was terrible, such as waste!

To our amazement, not 1 of the 3000 Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books was left behind. You see the Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books look like they have value. Any other Christian Book, in a book store, would cost a person $12 or so.

When you had a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book to a person, the book has a perceived value!

On the other hand when you hand someone gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts, salvation tracts, church literature, and ministry literature it has a perceived value of a worthless piece of paper! We have also found out the rejection rate is very high when you offer someone a gospel tract, evangelism tract, Christian tract, bible tract, soul winning tract, witnessing tract and salvation tract, church information and ministry information.

The rejection rate when giving out Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book Is very low! We only get 1 rejection for every 150 Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books that we pass out!!

Don’t take our word for it! If you have been using gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul-winning tracts, witnessing tracts, salvation tracts or church  and ministry literature to attract or reach the lost we challenge to try using Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books.

You Will Be Glad You Did and the Kingdom of God Will Grow Because You Did!!!!!

Door to door evangelism ideas is one of these methods to preach gospel

 ​Evangelism is very important for preaching gospel and there are different ways of evangelism. Door to door evangelism ideas is one of these methods to preach gospel. In door to door evangelism, an evangelist visits door to door in certain areas and preaches and distributes gospel tracts among residents. This idea is considered as the best approach because it will provide gospel tracts to all the residents that are unable to go to the church. The first door to door evangelism idea was used in 1912 to 1917 where evangelists visit more than 10.3 million homes.

Evangelism outreach idea is the preaching of faith by providing salvation tracts outside the church. Outreach evangelism increases the probability of people to attend evangelism. Those people that are not able to go to church or live far away from the church can take benefit from outreach evangelism idea. Door to door evangelism idea and outreach idea are the best for preaching faith to the people living far away from the churches.

Gospel tracts and salvation tracts are the orders and promises of god. Evangelist uses these tracts for inspiring others and increasing their faith and belief. Salvation tracts will totally change the life of person and make them feel like a newly born baby. Many people describe their real life stories that contain salvation testimonies for inspiring and motivating others to believe on god. Real life stories are very motivating and inspiring because these describe the impact of Jesus on the life of person. We offer a lot of real life stories on our websites which are very inspiring and motivating to start believing on Jesus. Evangelists use real life stories in their testimonies for inspiring others. Real life stories describe that how a person was faxing difficulties in life and how Jesus solve his difficulties. Prison ministry ideas, door to door evangelism ideas, evangelism outreach ideas and many others ideas are helpful for inspiring and motivating others. You will attract others to start believing on god by describe your story. You can start your real life story from the part of life before believing god. You can describe the difficulties in your first part and then you have to describe the later part of your life. You have to describe in detail that how Jesus solve your difficulties and make your life easy. You can search for real life stories on our website (www.reallifestoriesbooks.com).

Jim Barbarossa bringing forth the purpose of the Lighthouse Edition 3

Discipleship / Evangelism Resources Training & Strategies Methods

Read Stories Of Hope For Releasing The Stress

 

Hope is very important for life it helps to make life better. Hope is the only thing that motivates you to work hard and manage all the difficulties of life for a better future.If you want to succeed in life then don’t lose hope. We hear about many people that face many difficulties but don’t lose hope and get success in life. Here at Real Life Stories, there are a lot of stories of hope that inspire us to have a better life in the future. Many hopeful stories of people that were facing difficulties in life but miracles and the help of others make their life happy. If you are feeling stress then read stories of hope for releasing the stress.

These Christian Testimony  inspire you and increase your faith in yourself and you can improve your life. You can read these stories of hope to increase your confidence and motivating yourself to think positively for the future.

Evangelism Tools - Current Stories of God’s activity in your life

Every church has four basic tools to increase evangelism passion in the worshiper. You do not need to attend any evangelism training you just have to follow these tools to increase Evangelism Tools.

 1.  Prayer

Prayer is the best tool to encourage evangelism. It increases the spiritual thirst during evangelism.

2.  Your Testimony

You can share your testimony that how Jesus change your life. You can share the life before and after knowing Jesus.You have to share the impact of Jesus on your life to increase the faith of others. If you are a good storyteller then it will be a good tool for evangelism.

3.  Current Stories of God’s activity in your life.

Here at Real Life Stories, we have books answering these questions of the impact of Jesus in our lives by guiding, loving, and healing nature such as, how was life before Jesus? And how it changed after knowing Jesus?

Testimony Books help in the making of a Disciple

Do Real Life Stories Testimony Books help in the making of a disciple?

It is very hard to disciple people in this day and age because it takes time and commitment. Jesus discipled people for 2 or 3 years. There is no way we can get people to make that kind of commitment today.

To be able to disciple someone, you must get some kind of a commitment from them. We have found that if you can get a Christian to commit to write out their testimony and share it daily, this commitment sets the stage for the Holy Spirit to disciple them!

The first thing we challenge people to do in our 12-part Discipleship Training series is to commit to writing their testimony and being a part of a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book.

The second thing we do is challenge people to carry two copies of the Real Life Stories Christian Testimony in their hand every time they leave their home and every time they get out of their car.

The third thing we do is challenge them to ask the Holy Spirit to help them in the giving away of the books!

The commitment to carry the books, joined with the commitment to ask the Holy Spirit to help them, sets the stage for the Holy Spirit to be active in their life!

If a person is always carrying the Gospel message with them in the form of a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book, they are always trusting in the Holy Spirit to help them! This gives the Holy Spirit total access to all their Time and Daily Life!

What we accomplish during our 12 Discipleship Sessions is getting a strong commitment from the person being discipled to allow the Holy Spirit to led them into Living a Witnessing Tracts Lifestyle!

Want more information on how you can start a Discipleship Gathering in Your City? Send an email to Jim@step-by-step.org with the words “Discipleship Gathering” in the subject line.

Our Trucker’s Real Life Stories Christian

Testimony Books are by far one of the most effective evangelism ideas,
evangelism strategies, and evangelism methods being used in Truck Driver’s
Ministry, Truck Driver’s Ministries, Trucker’s Ministry, Trucker’s Ministries,
by Christian Truck Drivers to reach other Truck Drivers with the Gospel Message.
Real Life Stories Trucker’s Christian Testimony Books are quickly becoming
the preferred evangelism tool of many Christian Truckers, and many Christian
Trucking Companies. This Truck Driving Book, makes great Truck Driving Tools
And can help many in the Trucker’s World.

Real Life Stories Trucker’s Christian Testimony Books can be found in many Truck Stops across the United States were they are freely being given away along with Trucker’s Bibles or Truck Drivers

Bibles. Other Great Truck Drivers Ministry Resources are Trucker’s for Jesus, Association
of Christian Truckers, Truck Stop Ministries, Transport for Christ, and Trucker’s Christian
Chapel Ministries. Don’t take are word for it, try some books yourself and you
decide if these Trucker’s books are not one of the most effective evangelism
ideas, evangelism strategies, evangelism methods, evangelism tools that you
have ever used. Try this great evangelism tool and see how many more lost
souls you will reach!   

Real Life Stories Truckers Edition1 are being given away Freely through many Truck Stops across North America. 

Testimony Book - “My Life Was Never Easy”

No gain saying in the fact that Testimony Book  shared by people is a lifter of soul and spirit, it gives hope to the hopeless, strength to the weak, faith to the faithless and encouragement to the discouraged. My life was never easy. My parents split up when I was three years old. This was actually a good thing because their relationship was crazy most of the time. They both had emotional pain, and they used alcohol to medicate themselves. They both had suffered sexual abuse when they were children, so drinking was their way of coping. When they drank, there was often fighting in the home. My dad would physically abuse my mother. It was very scary to see this happen. One day, my mother finally had enough. She left, taking myself and my three brothers with her. Unfortunately, life wasn't much better after she left him. She was bitter and depressed about having to raise us children by herself. There was never any love or affection shown to us. She blamed us for her miserable life and her drinking. We often had to hear how she had never wanted children in the first place, and this caused us to feel unwanted. My father wasn't much better. He ignored me and only paid attention to my brothers. He would claim I wasn't his child because he “only made boys.” I grew up depressed, feeling unwanted and unloved. All I ever wanted in life was to have true happiness. 

The reason my mother never showed love was because she didn't know how to show love. Her mother was raised in a residential school from age 5 to 15 years old. These schools were places of physical and sexual abuse, so my grandmother grew up never knowing a parents love. She was raised in a strict, cold environment that no child should ever have to live in. When she finally left the school to start her own life, the damage had already been done. When she had children, she raised them in a strict, unloving home.  She was only doing what she had learned from the residential school. A cycle of showing no love and affection had started in my family. I was determined if I had any children, I would show and tell them that they were loved and wanted every day. 

Another cycle that continued in the family was sexual abuse. I found out when I was older that my parents and my grandmother had suffered from sexual abuse. I was sexually abused as well. The first time happened when I was just three years old. My mother was in the hospital having my youngest brother. My father's uncle was babysitting me. I remember bits and pieces of the abuse but mostly remember the physical pain. This wasn't the only time I had to endure sexual abuse. On different occasions throughout the years, other family members sexually abused me. I often wondered why this was happening to me. I felt alone with no one to turn to.  These episodes of sexual abuse just added to my depression, which seemed to grow and grow as I got older. I grew up not being able to trust anyone.  I was angry at the world. I often wished I wasn't born.  I thought of suicide on occasion but never went through with it. I didn’t tell my mother until I was 12 years old.  Even then, I never received any comfort or support from her. She was too busy wallowing in her own self-pity and alcohol, which added to my unhappiness. 

When I turned 16 years old, I moved out to get away from her drinking.  I had grown to resent it over the years. I was depressed but hopeful that the future might bring some happiness. I ended up drinking to numb my emotional and mental pain. I was doing the very thing I had despised, and this added to my depression. I ended up quitting high school and going to work to support myself. I started a great paying job at 21 years old.  Finally, life seemed to be going good for me. Around the same time, I started the first of three serious relationships I had in my life. I didn't have much luck in my relationships. It seemed like I was always picking partners who had addiction issues, and they didn't want to work. I went through physical and verbal abuse from two out of the three relationships, which brought depression back into my life. I always ended up supporting my family. The only good thing to come from these bad relationships was my three children who I love dearly. Once I had my children, I got my drinking under control.  I didn't want them to see their mother as an alcoholic. I tried to make our lives as normal as possible. 

After working at the same place for over eighteen years, the company finally closed down. I was without a job.  My last relationship was on the verge of ending because my partner didn't want to work. I had enough and kicked him out.  His drinking and physical abuse had become worse and worse. I was now alone and raising my children by myself, but I was better off being alone. I sunk into depression again, and my back began to ache like never before. My doctor put me on pain pills, which became the beginning of my new addiction. When the doctor cut me off my prescription, I began buying pills off the street. I also began selling pills to make money. I hid my addiction from my children and tried to keep life as normal as I could. They never had to go without food and were never neglected. I made sure I never sunk that far down. After buying pills for two years, I had enough of living this way and being broke. I decided to go on methadone to get off the pain medication. Little did I know, I was starting a new addiction which would be the hardest to quit.  It was at this time I decided to go back to school and apply to college. I had always dreamed of going back to school someday. I worked hard and got the credits I needed then took the chance and applied to college. To my surprise, I was accepted to the college I had chosen. It seemed as though I was finally having some good luck for a change, but three months before school started I was hit with a mystery illness. I call it a mystery because the doctors couldn't find a cause for my symptoms. I started having migraines, lost hearing in my right ear, and had short term memory loss. I started school and realized I couldn't remember what I was learning. The doctor suggested I leave school until they found out what was wrong. I quit school but was so unhappy.  I couldn't work or go to school.  What good was I to anyone? I sunk into a deeper depression than ever before. Thoughts of suicide began to surface again, even worse than before. It seemed like whenever my life was going good, things would always take a turn for the worst. I felt like giving up, but I never did because I had my children to take care of. If it weren't for them, I shudder to think what I may have done to myself. 

One Sunday morning, I was watching YouTube with my son.  He was 7 years old at time.  We came across a video that would change our lives. The video was about a young woman who had went to heaven and hell with Jesus. We watched the whole video, which was over an hour long. At the end, I was so convicted by what I had seen.  I looked at my son and said, "I don't want to end up in hell."  He agreed with me. 

Right at this exact time, a preacher came on the TV, which no one was watching.  He was shouting out, "If you want to accept Jesus as your savior, say this prayer." My son and I knelt down on the floor and repeated the prayer. Immediately, I felt a change.  I could tell my son did as well.  He seemed happier and content. I felt a heaviness come off my heart and felt hopeful. I decided I needed to find a church, and God led me to a spirit filled church which I still attend to this day, five years later. 

Since accepting Jesus into my life, God restored the hearing in my right ear, the migraines are gone, and my memory is back on track. For the first time in my life, I feel loved.  I feel true happiness. I built a relationship with the Lord, and it gets stronger as time goes on. He has set me free from 31 years of smoking, set me free from alcohol, and set me free from depression.  My back has been healed. He has brought love, peace, and joy into my home.  I wouldn't trade this for the world. I'm still on the methadone, but He has promised to free me from this as well.  Everything is in God's perfect timing. He has healed my broken heart and mended my broken spirit. I grew up hearing from my mother that Jesus isn't for native people. This lie has been told to native people for generations. I now know the truth.  He's for every tribe, tongue, and nation. Jesus is for us and not against us. He loves everyone with an everlasting love. He will never leave you or forsake you. When you enter into a relationship with God, your life will never be the same. He accepts you the way you are and doesn't turn anyone away. It doesn't matter what you've done or how bad you think you are. He is merciful and forgiving. Just invite Jesus into your heart, and you will find more happiness and love than you've ever known. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free! 

I hope my story will encourage you to desire a relationship with the Lord, and realize how amazing and wonderful He truly is. He is a loving, forgiving Father, waiting for you with open arms. Come to Him, and find the peace and love that is waiting for you. I'm living proof that His love is real and available to everyone who asks for it. Come as you are, and let the Lord transform your life for the better. He's a God of second chances and new beginnings. I've never been happier than I am now, thanks to the Lord. May this story bless you and encourage you to take the next step to happiness.  Christian Testimony Books is no doubt a necessity in the body of Christ for the edification of the soul. Truly, the lord who keeps watching over his people neither sleeps nor slumbers. 

Real Life Stories - I Was Kind of a Loner

Growing up, I was a very shy and quiet little girl who loved music. I was raised in the church, functioned in several positions, and knew church protocol. Every Sunday, we were there and at least once more during the week. There were a lot of revivals, and we would attend church for the entire week. 

I come from a family of singers and musicians on both my dad’s and my mom’s side. At an early age, my sister and I were singing songs such as, “How Big is God.” I continued to sing in church for many years during my youth because that’s what you did where I came from. I sang in the choir. I sang about God and heard about God, but I did not know God. I did not have a relationship with him. I had felt God’s presence before, especially when I would sing to Him, but I really didn’t know the God that I was singing to or about. 

From a child until well into young adulthood, I was kind of a loner. I felt like I was different from most of the people I was around, but I didn’t understand why. I wasn’t a very sociable person. Music was my passion, but even when I would sing in church, I would close my eyes and not look at the audience because of my shyness. In my latter teenage years, the Lord began to draw my heart and reveal Himself to me. At the age of 19, I gave my heart to God and started to develop a relationship with Him. I was very eager to learn more about Him.  I always wanted to be in His presence because I would have such peace, joy and contentment. 

When I became a Christian, my life was transformed, mind, body and spirit. Everything started changing. God started showing me that He really was God. One of the first miracles I experienced was God healing my oldest daughter when she was around 4 years old. I was very young in Christ and didn’t have the knowledge of intercession that I have now, but I believed in healing. A fellow sister in Christian Tracts, my daughter Catherine, and I were out of town at a church convention. Catherine accidentally knocked over the iron on herself, and the circle imprints from the iron were embedded into her face. My friend and I began to pray and call on Jesus. To our amazement, God began to remove those imprints out of my daughter’s face, right in front of us. We never took her to the hospital, and there weren’t any scars on her face. Watching God heal my daughter immediately increased my faith in Him tremendously. 

God proved Himself to me again. I was driving to the mall to return an item. I drove my dad’s car, and I was unaware my dad had been working on the exhaust system. My sister, brother, and oldest daughter accompanied me. They waited in the car that was running because it was the middle of winter. When I returned to the car, my daughter was laying on the floor of the car. My sister was unconscious, and my brother who was in the front was barely responding. I knew something was seriously wrong but didn’t know what it was. It never occurred to me to go to the hospital.  I began driving to my pastor’s house to pray. As I was driving, the Holy Spirit said, “Roll the windows down.” It was winter time, and I didn’t understand why I should roll the windows down, yet I obeyed. I made it to my pastor’s house, and they prayed with me. God blessed all three of them. We went to the hospital afterwards to get them checked, and everyone was fine. I later asked God about that situation. He replied, “Be still and know that I am God.” 

I have always loved to sing, but God had deposited in me a gift to write songs. I was writing songs for a while without realizing I was even doing it. God had a divine purpose to use me to usher a spirit of worship in the midst of His people. He has birthed songs in me that exemplified His true character and His great love for us. 

I am no longer the quiet and shy person I used to be. God has given me a confidence I never knew existed. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I now know that I am more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus. I have been blessed to minister this wonderful gospel message through the avenue of music for many years. I now sing in the spirit and with an understanding of Who God really am. Not only do I sing to and for Him, but I have learned to worship him. Learning to worship God has catapulted my life and my relationship with Him into an entirely different dimension. 

Just when I finally became comfortable singing in front of audiences, God made a shift and started positioning me to declare and preach His word. I was very uncomfortable with that. It definitely was NOT my preference. I said, “God, you know how long it took me to accept my calling to sing, now this?” In spite of how I felt, I obeyed. Now, I realize what a privilege and honor it is to proclaim a life-changing gospel that transforms people’s lives. I am so blessed that God empowers me to share good news with people that feel like good news doesn’t even exist. I have had the privilege of ministering at prisons, monthly at the Salvation Army, nursing homes, etc. Sharing the good news that God loves us and wants us to have abundant life brings me great joy. 

I have been married for 32 years. My husband and I have four beautiful and anointed children. God called my husband to pastor the ministry that He birthed through us called Pure Gospel Tracts. Our children work with us in the ministry. God continuously blesses me and my family. He continues to reveal more and more of Himself to us daily. I am grateful to Him for what He is presently doing in my life, and I am excited about my future in Him

Is This What Life Is Really About Salvation Tracts?

I owned a successful fleet of semi-trucks. I served six successful years in the United States Army. I graduated from Airborne and Ranger School. I reached the rank of Staff-Sergeant. I thought, “Life has to be for something else, for something better than this.” I was considered to be a medium-class productive member of society who owned a successful fleet of semi-trucks and contributed positively to the economy.  Prior to that, I served six successful years in the United States Army.  I had the privilege of graduating from Airborne and Ranger School and was honorably discharged with the rank of Staff-Sergeant.  Any time I saw someone in need of help, I always volunteered to help without expecting anything in return.  I always made sure not to hurt nor take advantage of anyone.  Anyone who knew me knew they could depend on me for anything they needed help with.   

As a young entrepreneur, I had the ambition for success.  I was about to achieve what many strive to achieve; a stable and comfortable financial income to supplement a comfortable lifestyle.  I realized that once I accomplished what I set out to do, I would be in a position where I could retire at an early age, which would be 32 at that time.  I began to ask myself, “Is this what life is really about, becoming successful, retiring, traveling, and that’s it?  That’s what society teaches us that life is about?  How sad and boring that is!  Life has to be for something else, something better than this!” 

I then realized I had been blinded by pursuing what I had been taught to pursue since I was young.  My parents, school, TV influence, friends, and neighbors; from all of them, I learned to pursue financial

Stability, a beautiful family, and success. Once I had achieved it, I realized they were wrong.  I found it easy to achieve all that, and it was when I achieved it that I realized I must really find out what life is really about.   

As a cultural born Roman-Catholic, I never really attended church or prayed.  All I did everyday was to thank God and symbolize honor and respect towards Him by sliding my right hand, forming a cross as I touched my forehead, down to my heart, then to my left shoulder and finishing in my right shoulder.  That’s what I was taught to do ever since I could remember.  I didn’t know how to actually pray to God.  But when I found myself in the life situation I described, I finally found myself talking to God.  I looked at the sky and asked, “God, if You exist, is this what life is really about?  Is this it?  Get rich and enjoy life?  It can’t be!  It was too easy to accomplish success, and now that I’m about to accomplish, what I consider, full and permanent success, I find it boring to keep on living with no more challenges in life! Many would call it financial freedom.  If this is it, life is boring and has no purpose!  What is life really about Bibles Tracts ?”  

If there was anything negative or bad about me at that time, it would be that almost every weekend I would get drunk with beer, eat pizza and chicken wings, and watch boxing on HBO.  That was pretty much my ritual on weekends as a form of relaxation from every week’s hard work.  My wife, at the time, would support me with it.  She seemed to be proud of the life I had provided to her and our children.  Her only complaint was that I would put my business before our family.  She was right, but I just couldn’t understand it at that time.  I felt that if I didn’t put business first, I would be putting at risk the comfortable lifestyle I was providing.  

To my surprise, I later realized God did hear me when I started to talk to Him. After the first time I began talking to God, I kept telling and asking Him more things.  I suddenly felt in my heart to ask Him if I’m really supposed to go to a church, and if so, which church should I go to.  I asked God such questions because I literally would not trust any man or any church organization.  I knew God heard me speak to Him when my business began to do poorly.  I actually began to lose business, and my company fleet size began to decrease.  I had begun toread the bible and realized that God was actually testing me according to some stories I had read from the bible.  In other words, I knew God began to test my faith because I was asking Him to show me who He is.   

I ended up losing my business, my marriage, and my properties.  But in the midst of it all, somehow, I just knew God was in control of everything in my life.  Just by believing that, a great peace came over my life.  But more than that, the peace had come inside of me.  I now know, it is the Spirit of Christ that came in me when I prayed for Him to be my Lord and Savior and told Him I want to follow Him with all my heart.  My wife at that time did not take me losing my business lightly and began to act and behave very strange towards me.  Little did I know, she had been actively involved with witchcraft for a long time.  Since I was always focused on my business, I never realized the weird things she used to do had to do with witchcraft.  Eventually, she did not want to be with me any longer.  I returned to school to pursue my bachelor’s degree and also became involved with an evangelical church.  My new lifestyle did not suit her needs, and she could not accept the fact that I would have joy and peace through the new changes in our life.   

I began to serve in the church I attended five to six days during the week. God introduced me to the manifestation of His divine power by allowing me to be exposed to life miracles, signs, and wonders.  After being in the Army for six years and owning my own company for another five years, being introduced to my real boss filled me with excitement and motivation.  When I realized that everything written in the Holy Bible is true, I committed myself one hundred percent and began to devote myself to serve the Lord.   

I am now an ordained minister of God who serves our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ everywhere I go.  Eight years after losing my business, I am finally starting my own trucking company again, but this time with the help of God.  Now, the purpose of the company I’m starting is to support the Church of God.  The difference now from before is that before, I did everything for my own benefit.  Now, I do everything for the benefit of others in the name of our Lord,  Salvation Tracts, and God Jesus Christ.  I used to be a good person before I met our Lord Jesus

Christ…a good person on my way to hell.  Now, I know I am not good, for only Jesus Christ is good.  All I can do now is continue to live righteously to glorify and honor our only and true God and enter heaven when I leave this world. God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ - Christian Tracts.