The Storyteller

“I don’t like you telling me about your God, and I’m going to kill you.” He pulled out a knife, and I’m thinking, "Lord, here I come; I’m coming to meet you." That knife went forward and stopped inches from my stomach. He was pushing so hard to try to get that knife into my stomach. He stopped, and he said, “I don’t know what’s going on, but your God is doing something strange to me.” And that knife dropped to the ground.

Mike grew up in foster homes and boarding schools, longing to be back with his family. When he got into high school, he learned to play sports, especially football, and when the school closed, the only alternative he was given was to play football at a Christian boarding school. Raised as a Catholic, he had no idea what salvation was about, until a clear presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ opened his heart and his understanding of the love of God.

Mary suffered much physical and emotional abuse in her marriage, but drew strength from God's Word and the encouragement of other Bible-honoring women. She found that God's way was effective in keeping her relationship with her unbelieving husband from destroying either their family or her faith. They both experienced God's forgiveness in their lives, and now she looks forward to reuniting with her husband in Heaven.

Mary suffered much physical and emotional abuse in her marriage, but drew strength from God's Word and the encouragement of other Bible-honoring women. She found that God's way was effective in keeping her relationship with her unbelieving husband from destroying either their family or her faith.

Mary has good memories of her early childhood in Oxford House, but when she went away to residential school as a teenager, her life became an unhappy one. After running away rather than returning to school, she entered adult life with little education, but with a determination to honor her marriage even if her husband did not. An encounter with the Lord left her scared rather than joyful, but she knows now she can rely on the Word of God and His promises.

Harlan accepted Jesus as his Savior, but it took 5 to 6 years for his family to believe the change in his life was genuine. After observing his behavior for all that time, they recognized his beliefs were real, and eventually, after he continually exposed them to the good news of God's Word, his mother and youngest brother followed him in accepting Christ before they passed on.

"I kept telling my wife that I was going to change my life and start going to church. I was so good at lying, making people believe that what I say I was going to do, and I make people believe me. That was actually part of my plan, to tell my wife I was going to go to church and manipulate her by saying I’m going to go to church and change my life. I was using that to have my wife take me back."

"I would just like to let people know that it doesn’t matter what life you have lived or what you’ve done. When you come to Christ, He will forgive if you ask Him to forgive your sins, and God is, Jesus Christ is just waiting for you."

Sophia grew up without her mom, and her grandmother was the greatest influence of her childhood. Sophia enjoyed caring for her as she grew older, but when grandmother became ill, she sent Sophia away to other family. Feeling in the way, Sophia set out on a relationship which became abusive, and was feeling trapped by her sense of commitment, and by a lifestyle of drink and drugs.

"I can�t tell you the freedom I had; the tears of joy start flowing, I was so happy, so glad, the enormous feeling of release, of peace, and that was the deliverance that I had from all this torment, the pain, the hurt, the alcohol, the pot, everything that went into a life of this lifestyle. God is a healer, He�s a restorer of broken homes, He�s a restorer of broken lives, and I share this with you."