As a child I was brought up in a Catholic home which in later years found out is much different than a Christian home. I was taken to church every Sunday but mostly because that was what you were suppose to do. Their was no Bible to read out of just a “Prayer Book” in latin that you took to church called “Mass”. During my high school and college years church was not a part of my life. I know now that if I died then, I would have gone to hell.

In January, 1977 I married the love of my life and have enjoyed thirty wonderful years with him. We were not Christians. In the summer of l986, our world was at its lowest point with an addiction of gamgling taking over our life. We were at our lowest point in life. It was then that I realized that I needed the Lord because nothing else seemed to be working. On a Wednesday evening in the summer of l986 I asked the Lord to come into my life to be my Lord and Savior. My shoulders immediately became less heavy and my life started to turn around. I was baptized in the presence of my family.

Life hasn’t been easy and I have fallen on several occasions but we have a forgiving God that says ok my child and lifts you up. It is just a job to know and have the assurance that one day I will be sitting with my Lord and Savior in Heaven praising Him for what he did not me, a sinner saved by grace. My home now is truly a home that stands, shouts and praises the Lord for what He has done for me.