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Testimonies
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TESTIMONIES OF OUR MEMBERS
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Growing up in the church, I learned many wonderful things about God even before I understood what they meant. My grandmother took me to church practically every Sunday, where I learned many great Bible stories. I attended the Antioch Baptist Church where I was a member of the Sunday school and visited the Saint George’s Anglican Church during that time. Although those were important building blocks for the foundation of my Christian faith, I did not have salvation. It was not until age twelve that I fully understood the difference between being good and being saved.
1983 was the most important year in my life. It was the year the planets were to align, and scientists predicted doom. They postulated that the gravitational fields that held the planets in place would be influenced so greatly that the earth could be sent off course either spiraling into the sun or adrift into outer darkness. Either way sounded like the end to me. I knew that, if I died, I would not be ready and would be eternally separated from God.
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Terrence Morton, M.D.
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As God ordained it, there was a revival meeting being held at the Antioch Baptist Church that week. Many young people gave their hearts to the Lord. On Wednesday, March 10th, I followed Christ as my personal Savior. Among the foremost things that stood out in my mind at that young age was that the fun had ended. I heard a voice telling me that there was not fun in Christianity. I would spend the rest of my life in church singing the old Hymns of Zion and taking communion, which at that age meant the ultimate sacrifice of my freedom to a life of unrelenting boredom. It was then that I saw the truth in God’s Word saying whosoever saves his life shall lose it, and he who gives his life for Christ’s sake shall have life everlasting.
There were many activities in the church in which I quickly became a member. I attended two Sunday school sessions, one at the church and the other the Bethany Baptist Sunday school at the children’s home. Monday was the only night off. Tuesday night was prayer meeting. Wednesday was Royal Ambassadors, Thursday there were Training Union and Senior Choir, and on Fridays we would have Young Baptist Fellowship. Saturdays were reserved for Junior Choir and church cleanup crew. The group of guys that came to know the Lord in that revival stuck together and competed at attending every event we could possibly attend. Needless to say, we could not attend women’s fellowship nor could we attend the pantomimers group because these were exclusively for females. So boredom was definitely not an issue. In fact, life was far more fun-filled than I’d imagined it could be.
These twenty years of service to the Lord have been great. I have dedicated my life to touching one life at a time and to pursuing God. I have pursued other things with varying degrees of success, but there are two verses that I carry with me through all life’s journey:
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe to do all things that are written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Joshua 1:8
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