Pastor Steve's testimony
Pastor Steve was born and raised in northern Ohio and was headed for a career after graduating high school in tool and die and architectural design with a 3.8 grade average. But that all went away when he started in his journey of substance abuse. He actually started at the age of 14 but it escalated by the time he left home and went to college. For the next several years he fell deeper into the drug usage and a lifestyle that was leading him to a darker and darker place. Then when a friend came back from Vietnam and shared his testimony of how Christ had changed his life in the middle of that war and that he no longer had to live like that Steve came to a saving knowledge of Jesus as his personal savior. Since then, Steve got married 3 days after that experience and has been with his first wife for the past 53 years. Steve and his wife Kathy started attending church where they grew in Christ were discipled and became an active member and in leadership for the next 10 years. They then moved to Houston to be on staff as youth pastor served there for the next 5 years when he then traveled for a year with Dr. Hilton Sutton before taking the pastorate here in Moss Bluff La. and have been here for the past 36 years growing a wonderful congregation. In that 36 years Pastor Steve served as a chaplain with the sheriff's office for over 27 years and earned a bachelor's degree in religious education and developed a program approved by the courts and probation and parole for offenders. Steve and Kathy are excited what God is doing and looking forward to being a part of ushering in His soon coming return. Pastor Steve In 2004, during a Sunday morning service at RLC, Pastor Steve said that God had reveled to him that “someone” had a heart murmur. He then said that God wanted to heal who ever this is. I hesitated a moment, but knowing that Pastor Steve was talking about me, when he said come, I did. I was instantly healed from this heart murmur that I had from birth. It had kept me from doing a lot of things that was normal for others.
I believe that God could do it, and He did. I have held on to my healing no matter how much others disbelieve. I am a living miracle. I praise my Father In Heaven every day! Gerdie Brandon - 2004 |
KEITH’S SALVATION TESTIMONY
I started going to a Baptist church when I was in fourth grade and we always heard the salvation message. As a youngster, I must have gone up and got saved at least ten times, and got baptized multiple times. However, I just went down a dry sinner and came up a wet sinner. I was just doing what I saw others doing without knowing what or why I was doing it. Then, 43 years ago I remember laying in bed tossing and turning. My mind just would not shut down. I kept thinking about where I would go if I should die. I HAD NO PEACE. I got out of bed and knelt on the floor and on March 18, 1982, I truly asked Jesus to come into my heart. I remember the peace that came over me, and even though at 18, I went out into the world and was just living my life, that night never left me. Even though I was doing things I knew I should not having been doing, that night always popped back into my memory. When I was 29 God got a hold of me again. I’ve been serving HIM and Resurrection Life Church for the past 27 years. NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU TRY TO GET FROM GOD, ONCE YOU BELONG TO HIM, HE WILL NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU & YOU CAN NOT OUTRUN HIM! Jimmy's Salvation Testimony
I was saved and baptized as a child but walked away from church after hearing a couple of the ladies in the church talking about my step-dad and his drinking. I never forgot who God & Jesus were, I just left them at the church when I left. I was hurt! Many years later my wife said “We should go to church.” I didn’t argue but after the one service I pointed out everything I found wrong. We didn’t go back. Another many years later my wife said “Now that you are not working away from home any more, maybe we can go to church.” I didn’t argue. This time was different. This time we went a second Sunday, but I didn’t find anything for me to point out as wrong. I had always said, from the day that I walked away from church, “I am not going to play with God!” I found out that God was not playing with me either. He wanted me with him. I have given myself back to God and realized, just like those ladies from a long time ago in my childhood, I need God’s mercy and grace every day! James “Jimmy” Anderson |