Beth Greene
When I was very young my family attended a small Southern Baptist church regularly. In fact, my dad was even a deacon of the church. All of us - Mom, Dad, two brothers, a sister, and myself - enjoyed going to church and life was great. So great in fact that when God called me to join His family I did not hesitate. I knew that I wanted to have Jesus in my heart right away. So, at the age of 11, I asked Jesus to be my Savior. Finally, my life was perfect! Little did I know that within 4 years of making the decision to follow Christ my “perfect” life would be shattered. Without very much notice my mom and dad divorced. My dad went one way and the rest of us went another. All of a sudden everything changed. Mom worked all the time to try and support us. Dad had another wife and family. Going to church fell way down on our priority list. And with that I fell away from God.
Even though for several years I was not living as if Christ lived in me, God was faithful. He allowed me to find a wonderful man that I would eventually marry. We loved each other dearly but we were missing something. Neither of us spoke much about church in our first years of marriage but my younger brother was so excited about attending FBNS that we couldn’t turn him down when he asked us to visit. We did and loved it. In fact we found ourselves on our third visit on a Commitment Sunday. I looked over at Trent and he looked at me and we knew. We knew that we had found what we had been missing - JESUS! We joined the church that Sunday and we haven’t looked back. We rededicated our whole lives to Him.
Since that day, God has blessed us beyond messure. We now have 2 beautiful children, Sarah and Cameron, and a church that allows us to serve the Lord through various ministries. Trent and I both now serve in the Children’s Ministry and I get to share with them my story of how Jesus died for me and by asking Him to come into my heart He gave me the greatest gift of all - ETERNAL LIFE!
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