Sis. Ginger Culbertson asked me and others to give our testimonies of salvation the other day and after being busy, I forgot until now. I don’t mind telling anybody about it. I wasn’t raised in church. I had gone a handful of times with friends and neighbors to different churches and different beliefs. But never […]
Read MoreAn Account of My Call to Preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ I assume in this discourse that you have read my discourse on the events leading to and my experience of salvation. If not, please read that discourse before proceeding with this one. After being saved when I was 15 on New Year’s day, […]
Read MoreAn Account of My Salvation Experience I am thankful that I have an opportunity to tell about the salvation, which the Lord Jesus Christ has provided for me. I know from my first-hand personal experience (as does everyone who is truly saved), the Bible, and history, that all who are saved, are saved the exact […]
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I was born on March 16, 1959 in Watseka, Illinois in Iroquois County. I went to grade school and high school in Watseka. I graduated from high school in 1977 and went to work for a construction company. I never had any type of church background. Once in awhile, on holidays, my family and I […]
Read MoreBrother Massey wrote: “I was a very high tempered rowdy boy, full of fun and pranks. Drank some, went to parties, dances, fussed and scrapped. January 9, 1888, I went to a revival at Rocky Mound Church. Did not go for the good of the meeting but to swap pistols, play cards and be with […]
Read MoreSALVATION EXPERIENCE I was born March 12, 1907. My birth place is Jackson County, Gainesboro, Tennessee. My parents were Jim (Bob) and Leona McCoin Ray. I am the third child in a family of twelve children, six boys and six girls. My religious surrounding as I grew up was of the Methodist and Presbyterian faith. […]
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My parents, Kenny and Linda Highley, raised me up the Missionary Baptist way. My granddad, Brother Norman Highley, was a Missionary Baptist preacher for over 50 years. My first memories of being in church were at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Nevada, MO. As a child, I remember my parents taking my brothers, Josh and […]
Read MoreMany years ago I met my soul mate. When we met, I was lost and did not realize it. I thought I had been saved many years before only to come to the realization that I had not actually been saved only put under conviction at the time. We lost our daughter (my step daughter, […]
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MY TESTIMONY BY JANICE KAY PATTERSON ALLISON, Written in the year of 2007 When I was 9 years old, we were visiting Defeated Creek Missionary Baptist Church during their revival. Back then, when the church was having the alter service, the younger children roamed about, watching what was going on. Me and a friend were […]
Read MoreI came under conviction 33 years ago this past June. We attended Harmony Missionary Baptist Church and my family was members. The preacher was Bro. Edgar Copeland and the helper was Bro. Hillman Duncan who was the pastor of Gateway at the time. Revival at Harmony starts the last week in June. During the week […]
Read MoreThere is a story behind this photo. I was in Payne Cemetery in Polk County, Missouri this past weekend, burying my last remaining grandparent… Alivene B. Skinner, my paternal grandmother. In the course of the funeral sermon, I mentioned a certain Mabel Roberts from the Sentinel community. She was born on October 10, 1905 and […]
Read MoreJoseph was somewhere between 10 and 13 years of age when he ran away from home due to his parents not feeding him or his brothers and sisters. He awoke in the middle of the night and smelled bacon frying after being told by his parents, Joseph and Mary Ann Jackson Jeffries that there was […]
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