I would spend the night at my grandmother’s a lot on the weekend. I started going to church with her and became active in the youth there. On one Sunday in June of 1970 at my Grandmothers church, I felt it was time for me to turn over my being stubborn and independent and ask the Lord into my heart to guide me. I asked God to forgive me of my sins and to come into my heart. After I prayed I felt calmness and a peace in my life that I had been searching for in all the wrong places. I was not as adventurous in the next couple of years until I moved out on my own. I started being independent and relying on myself with out God’s guidance. I did a lot of thing in my youth, experimenting with drinking alcohol and running with a crowd of people that were not Christians. It became easier to stay out late on Saturday night at a party than going to church on Sundays. I met my husband and two years later we were married. We started going back to church occasionally.

We moved to Texas where we had no family and we had to depend on each other and God. My daughter was born there. We went through a lot with her because she was 5 weeks premature. She was truly a blessing from God. Her birth made me realize that I was blessed and I needed to return that blessing through my actions to others and serving God more. We moved to Mississippi, then back to home. We started attending (New Pisgah) FBNS in 1985. My husband developed cancer twice during his life before he died. God was faithful through everything we went through. My husband passed away when my daughter was 13. She attended church here and was saved as a youth. She joined the orchestra when she was in Jr. High and played several different instruments. She was at the Twin Trees performance singing when her father died. I had the comfort of the Lord and fellow Christians here to get us through all the years of loss, trials and heartache. God has been faithful to me through the hard times and has blessed me though being a volunteer for Guardian Ad Litem. This has changed how I feel about serving others and has filled up the void in my life of missing my daughter because she moved to New York this past January. I do find comfort and strength from the Lord, and I have made friends that help throughout the singles ministry here.