My Testimony Continued from the Dream Center
Well, my testimony does not end yet. As a matter of fact it gets better everyday. Last year for Christmas, I came out to L.A. to visit my parents. Once again, ever since then, my life has been changed forever. Before I ever came out here to L.A. my mom literally begged me to move out there with them to live. Of course I was stubborn and could see no logic about moving out to a "War Zone." I told myself that there is no way in a million years that I would ever move out to L.A., which was notorious for violence and crime. During my 2 week visit my parents nearly tried to lure me here by spoiling me. I've never been so spoiled in my whole life. Money in my family had always been tight. There was never an abundance, until now. There is only one way I can describe it. God was richly blessing my parents!!! They almost took me every, including Planet Hollywood. However, none of that was able to change my mind about moving here.
If that wasn't enough, I had my mom and another person come up and ask my if I wanted to go plant a church in a foreign country. "My goodness, do you think I'm crazy or something?" I thought. It took a sermon that I don't recall paying much attention to , to wake me up. Pastor Tommy Barnett, of Phoenix First Assembly of God, was speaking about how now is the time. I can only recall thinking that it wouldn't hurt to spend one year of my life on the missions field. Why not, college will always be there when I get back? That really was not what I was thinking though. More than likely I would have lost my scholarship that I prayed so hard for because of my low grades. So, the only thing holding me back from going was probably the AWESOME computer labs where I learned how to make these pages and chat. It took a lot of sacrifice to agree to get in the training for the mission trip to Uganda, Africa. Nearly everyday I miss the internet access I so freely had at ASU, but if you were to ask me if I regretted moving out here to the Dream Center, I would tell you "NO!" in a heartbeat. Of course doubt enters my mind quite frequently about going to a foreign country with no hot water to plant a church for 9 months to a year, but who cares? All I know is that God is in control and He is going to work ALL things out for His glory whether I go or not.
Currently, we (the 5 of us who are training as a team to go, 3 guys & 2 girls) have just completed the first 5 months of training. Only 1 more to go!!! If we all are deemed efficient enough to accomplish this mighty task for the Lord, we will depart around September 30. At the end of training the missions pastor as well as the pastors from Singapore will evaluate us to see if we are able to accomplish this task. The Sunday before the 30 of September, the Los Angeles International Church (aka "The Dream Center") will have a little ceremony for us during the church service. At the end they will lay their hands on us and send us off with a blessing. I guarantee you I will be crying like a little baby.
So, keep me in your prayers. When I get back, there will be plenty of things for me to do here. After all, there are over 120 ministries here. We minister to everyone from the prostitutes, the gang members, to the homeless. I would like to encourage you to watch our TBN tv program every Friday night at 10:00p.m. California time ( I believe that is the Pacific time zone) !!! We film it fresh every week, no re-runs!!! However, it only shows 6 of the 180+ ministries we do every week. We would not have time to show all 180+ ministries in a 30 minute segment. Be blessed!!!!
Well, thanks for reading my testimony!!!! I hope it strengthened your faith and forgive me, but I'm not great with words!!!
My favorite scripture- Ps.37:4
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