The Storyteller

As tribal chairman, Gordon participated in ceremonies where offerings were made to the spirits, but soon found out that the spirits were not only powerful but wicked and evil as well, and would bring him down in torment, until he learned to turn to the only trustworthy spirit, the Holy Spirit of the Creator God.

Gordon looks back on his combat experience during the Vietnam War, recognizing how God had His hand on him then, and how He continues to guide and protect him in life's spiritual warfare.

"I didn�t understand until I realized my own sin. All this time I thought I was a good person; I went to church, I didn�t drink, I didn�t do drugs, I didn�t even smoke. God gave us the Ten Commandments to teach us that we are not perfect, that we can�t follow the Ten Commandments. I had tried and failed miserably, and realize that I am not good enough to enter His kingdom. God loved me so much that He sent His only Son to die for me, because I was not good enough to enter His kingdom."

�Flo, you know what happened is that I got saved, I got saved.� Of course he started preaching to me, �You need the Lord too, you need to know the Lord, you need to be forgiven.� And I�m thinking, �I wonder how long this is going to last,� and, you know, his life just changed.

When Andrew's wife decided to put her trust in Jesus, he was very curious. He watched her, and had her tell him what the preacher would say at church. He couldn't get away from the bottle, but he wanted to. He wanted what his wife Nida had found, and one evening, he wanted it bad enough to go looking for it.

New Years Eve is a very special time in the Claus family. It was on that night many years ago that the family gathered together around the radio and heard something that would change their lives forever. Listen as Tom reflects on the significance of that day and what it means to him after all these years.

"God gave me the strength to deal with how to deal with having a disability, and having how to deal with my low self-esteem issues, and that life was worth living, and that I didn�t need to end my life and believe Satan�s lie that I wasn�t worth anything. And then I realized that it made my whole mindset change."

Carla was adopted by a white family, and grew up in a loving Christian home, but experienced issues stemming from a disability as well as her being a Native in a white community. Even after accepting Christ in her mid-teens, she found these issues made life more difficult, but also found that knowing God made her more able to deal with the struggles.

When he was seventeen, Randy found himself thinking seriously about how he had offended God, and the following year gave his life over to the Lord, growing in the knowledge that God had a plan for his life, and being led to enroll in a Bible School. The Lord has taken him on remarkably from there, as a pastoral assistant who is becoming more devoted as a servant of God to the people as time goes on.

Randy grew up in a home where he was loved, but where alcohol was a major influence, and before he was a teen he had begun experimenting with drink and drugs. He had heard stories from the Bible at home, and found them exciting, but did not appreciate how they pertained to him until, when he was seventeen, he began to see how his behavior would offend God, and cause him to miss salvation and eternal life.