Baptisms

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Testimony From Chris Sheets

I was baptized as an infant, I went to church with my grandmother in the summer and I always believed in God.  When my parents passed I stop believing because I was so angry.  When I came back to the Lord it was at Hope, this year at the women’s retreat is where I really found the Lord. I have been going through so much this year with Lexsie and so the day we were to leave I was so afraid to leave that I was planning to back out, but something was urging me so strongly to go that I had to take that leap of faith that everything would be OK at home. I have always taking communion and never thought about it but at retreat when we watched a video about Jesus at the tomb I finally did realize what Jesus gave up for me. Hearing what the guide was saying in the video had touch me so much that I finally understood and realize that the Lord was truly with me and I knew that I was Taking the body and the blood of Christ and not just crackers and juice. At that moment is when I gave myself to the Lord and he has been blessing me every day since I have been learning to pray and asking for his guidance and he has been showing me the way and what a wonderful path I’m following I found my church and I found my Lord!

Testimony From Michele Bechtold

My name is Michele. I was raised Catholic and went to Sunday school and church as a young child but got away from it as a teenager.

I felt as an adult something was missing from my life. I was always envious of my neighbor Cheri’s faith.   One day we were talking about that-me being envious and she said you don’t need to be envious, you can have this too. I asked her if I could go to Bible Study with her and it began from there! We studied the book Purpsose Driven Life by John Warren. Soon we came to the chapter about attending Church and I read it and thought how am I ever going to get there. I work retail and

Work every Sunday. God is great though.   I went to my manager and asked if I could work a shorter shift. He said Yes, family first. It was as easy as that. God was in my corner. I felt happy, joyful and complete as soon As I begin going to Church. I was filled with emotion and such a powerful feeling of peace and happiness.

After an extremely horrible rough traumatic day at work. The next day I came to work and was struggling with how to deal with this new day.I was having such anxiety about entering the front door. At that moment walking up the steps to my office I felt the presence of God with me as I entered work. He was there with me. I could feel him so strongly telling me “You got this.” I am with you.   It made me feel so much better knowing God was there with me holding me up!

I feel changed. There is so much love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control in my heart.

I feel so strong in my faith in Jesus as I follow him.

Thank you Cheri for speaking up that day.