Who has/had the most impact in your becoming a christian?

[Jonathan Long]

Who has or had the most impact in your becoming a christian?

I know that many of you grew up in the church. I did not, I was 40 before I accepted Jesus into my life and asked for forgiveness.

With that being said, I'm really curious about everyone else.... care to share?

[Bruce Carriker]

Oh, my...how long a list are we allowed?

My grandfather.

My mother.

Tom Adams, my 5th-6th grade SS teacher.

Dr. Ron Roth, my pastor from 5th-12th grade.

(Fast forward 20 years)

Betty Schermbeck, my daughter's SS teacher. I frequently tell people that by 1994, the only two people left in the world who were praying for me were my Mom and Betty Schermbeck.

Dr. Claude Patterson, my pastor, mentor, and dear friend

[Mark Metcalfe]

My parents. (easy answer)

My father is a gifted preacher who imparts complex truths simply.
My mother also provided nurturing guidance.

Mark

[Barb Bouldrey]

My gentle, holy grandmother who prayed for me and lived Jesus in front of me.

And getting involved in everything spiritual I could at Olivet. That grounded me in my faith and beliefs.

Barb

[Andrea Larabee]

My best friend's mother. I'm smiling just thinking of her.

The first time I met her, I had just had 6 teeth pulled at the dentist and my mother left me at her house for the afternoon to be watched. (I was 15) There I lay on her couch feeling so much peace, I mean serious unspeakable peace!! I never felt that comfortable even in my parents house or in my life. I know she was sitting in the dining room quietly praying for me as I rested.

She is one of those who truly lives out Jesus. From that point on she had many other moments of witnessing to me and praying with me.

PRAISE GOD!

[Donna Adams]

1. my parents..they took me to church
2. my grandmother's
my maternal grandmother led me to the altar that Sunday morning and prayed with me to receive Jesus. My paternal grandmother read scripture ot me, prayed with me and asked questions.

[Belinda Y. Edwards]

my mother

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Good question. I can't limit it one or two individuals...and the list continues today (I'm still becoming a Christian):

My family (parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles), Chic Chavier (spoke the revival at which I made my first decision), David Bryson (S.S. Teacher and friend...he was pretty much my youth pastor when I went to a church that didn't have a youth pastor), David Brown (he's now a worship pastor in North Carolina), Mike Schutz (former ENC Chaplain, now a pastor in Avon Grove, PA), Tom Oord (former ENC professor, now at NNU), Bill Clay, Jonathan Batchelder (friend and youth pastor), Mike Lyle (friend, brother-in-law, and worship pastor in Lynchburg, VA), Fred Fullerton, and I think I could list almost every professor I had at NTS, but particularly Ron Benefiel (who I actually never had for class), Darius Salter, and Doug Hardy. Authors like Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Brian McLaren, and Rob Bell.

Christ himself has been pretty influential too.

Some of those on my list would probably be pretty surprised to hear it. Words aren't the only thing that have taught me to be a better follower of Christ. Most of the time it's an exemplary life lived.

[Thomas Cook]

Mr Howard P. Newton who is now 95 years of age.
I did not grow up in Church but got on the Sunday School rolls at Rossville Church of the Nazarene.Bro Newton began teaching the Junior Boys class.He wasn't cool or really a very intersting teacher but he loved us and was like a class pastor.
He visited when we were absent,organized clasas parties,checked on us when sick,came to watch us play football(and other sports) gave us rides to Church etc and when the opportunity arose would talk about the Lord.
He was consistent in and out of Church,never missed a service,testified often sang in the Choir and was positive about everything and everybody.
Although there are many who had a part Bro Newton was the main man.He will always be my Sunday SChool teacher.
May his tribe increse..........
Tom

[Marg Webb]

My Father. He Never Stepped Back After Giving His Life To The Lord. He Was Saved On The Street By A Salvation Army Group And By The Time We Were A Family He Was Grounded And Taught Us.

[Judy Hamilton]

My sunday school teacher in a Free Methodist Chruch..prayed diligently
over myself and my sister.. We came every Sunday only to Sunday School and we both accepted Christ while
in her class . I was 12 and Donna was 13

[Mark Hammons]

I would have to say it was my Teen Quizzing coach, Loretta Chamberlin! If anyone is ever at the Whitehall COTN, in Columbus, OH, you will find her there. But she was not just my quiz coach, she taught me and quite a wild bunch of Jr High and Sr High boys for a number of years. She was very practical, straightforward and I don't think there was single thing any of us boys did that her own boys had not done, so she knew how to handle us.
My brother Brian (and Cindi too), I am absolutely certain has a very similar opinion of her. He was generally with her younger son when there was anything to get into.

Mark

[Marsha Gupton]

My Mother and Father
My grandmother and grandfather -- both saints, but I remember my grandmother's prayers for her children and Grandchildren
Dr. Millard Reed
Rev. J.V. Morsch
Lee Woolery
various sunday school teachers: Louise Allsbrooks, Mrs. Corbett

I have been in the church my entire life

[Hans Deventer]

My parents, for I was raised in a Christian home. Now list would be a lot longer if the question included, "Who has or had the most impact in your remaining a christian?" :basic03

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

My mother. My granmother lived next door. She and Mother were what people would speak of as "mother's in Israel" back then--that held on to "the horns of the altar" and were intercessary prayer warriors. Grandmother read the Bible to me many nights and explained it to me--when I spent the night with her--and we slept on her feather bed mattress. They really understood the OT and pumped it into our heads. I just wish I could explain it the way they could.

[Doris Grant]

My saintly Grandmother. She was a kind gentle soul who always walked the walk. When she passed away I lost my best friend. She was indeed the cornerstone in my spiritual life.

Doris

[Stan Hall]

I came from a strong Methodist family. I father was an organist, all four of my grandparents were Methodists, my maternal grandparents and my aunt were missionaries in the Phillipines.
However I didn't really know Jesus. My wife was raised Seventh Day Adventist but we didn't attend church for many years. Then we started studying and researching scripture. We are now Nazarene. So I would have to say the greatest impact on my truly becoming a Christian would have to be my lovely wife, Judy. Thank you Judy!

[Joel Merrill]

I hate to say this but I can't think of a single Christian who had an especially positive impact on my life. In fact I could list several who had a very negative impact. I think I would have become a Christian sooner if it weren't for the legalism and hypocrisy of Christians close to me. There were good Christians in my life, like my Grandfather, but I can't really say that I became a Christian because of them. Of course I can't know how much effect their prayers had. When I became a Christian it was because I was depressed and discouraged and I just took a good look at my life and made a logical decision on my own.

After I got saved I was very confused and frustrated with the doctrine of holiness but I can point to people who made a very positive impact on me toward the filling of the Holy Spirit. Rev Gary Henecke had the biggest impact on my life. I heard a message at camp meeting by Dr. Greathouse that also helped a lot. A book called, "These Earthen Vessels" by W.T. Purkiser answered some of my hardest questions. But I still had to it rock bottom before I could give up completely. I guess that is just the kind of guy I am, or was.

Joel

[Andrew J. Pottenger]

Well, if we're talking about BECOMING a Christian, I would say my family and a youth leader, Michael Ross. And I know this is going to sound really weird, but if we're talking about STAYING a Christian, I would say my family, but also Stephen King's writing and U2's music.

[Gina Stevenson]

Well, if we're talking about BECOMING a Christian, I would say my family and a youth leader, Michael Ross. And I know this is going to sound really weird, but if we're talking about STAYING a Christian, I would say my family, but also Stephen King's writing and U2's music.

'Got me curious, Andrew. 'Mind "splaining" how Stephen King's writing might do this? He writes some scary/weird stuff, doesn't he? Or, is that the quality of his writing that, when you were a kid, scared you into clinging to the Lord, lest something like what he wrote about befall you without the Lord's protection? 'Just gotta know here ... gotta know if Stephen King scared you, or actually wrote some relevant theological "stuff" that I've not heard of. ;)

[Rick Morton]

Mr Howard P. Newton who is now 95 years of age.
I did not grow up in Church but got on the Sunday School rolls at Rossville Church of the Nazarene.Bro Newton began teaching the Junior Boys class.He wasn't cool or really a very intersting teacher but he loved us and was like a class pastor.
He visited when we were absent,organized clasas parties,checked on us when sick,came to watch us play football(and other sports) gave us rides to Church etc and when the opportunity arose would talk about the Lord.
He was consistent in and out of Church,never missed a service,testified often sang in the Choir and was positive about everything and everybody.
Although there are many who had a part Bro Newton was the main man.He will always be my Sunday SChool teacher.
May his tribe increse..........
Tom
Same here Tom I have never met a man like him and don't believe I ever will again. What would our Churches by like if there was one of him in each.

[Andrew J. Pottenger]

I always thought he was a scary-weird writer with major mental issues, until I actually picked up a book to read it. Having read nearly everything he's published now, I'm completely convinced that Stephen King's reputation as a "horror writer" is undeserved and given to him by people who don't get his work.

His books have scary-weird settings (an America devastated by plague, cell phones causing people to go feral, haunted hotels, etc.), but that's the extent of the scary-weirdness. He deals with some very hard theological and spiritual issues in most, if not all, his books. I think the question he raises most often is the problem of evil, and I'd love to know if he's ever read C.S. Lewis' "The Problem of Pain" and "A Grief Observed."

I think the two books of his that have had the greatest impact on me spiritually were "The Stand," and "Desperation." Those are the two most blatantly theological novels he's written. Part of the reason I enjoyed these books is that they didn't come to any certain conclusions about God; they simply raised questions and grappled with them. And I don't think there's enough of that in the Christian world - we're too busy trying to defend a God who really doesn't need defending, too busy trying to justify our faith in our own eyes, so that all we have are dogmatic conclusions, no loose ends, and very little mystery - and that's not the God I'm re-discovering by reading the Bible as if for the first time.

That's partly what has kept me a Christian where his work is concerned. King and U2 served to "free my mind," to use the term from the Matrix films. To explore, and wrestle, and seek, and pursue this God who has spent eternity pursuing me. I find that God invites (dares?) us to ask Him questions, to express our misunderstanding and confusion, and even anger. Those things are part of the human experience as much as love, belief, etc. and I think God wants all of us, not just the good and favorable parts. King and U2, along with C.S. Lewis, have really freed me to set aside any religious image I might try to surround myself with, trying to make myself worthy of God.

[BobHunt]

Wayyyyy back, years ago, almost B.C. we had something in churches called Revivals. Unheard of now....we have much better systems in place. But during a revival, an evangelist came allllllllll the way from Illinois to northern NY and he had a way of singing and preaching that struck home with me!
Then at a camp meeting, where an evangelist got up into the pulpit....never opened his notes or Bible, but just stood there and quoted scripture for at least a half hour, sometimes chapters at a time......and the power of God fell through that time and the front altars were lined with people who wanted God. One was me!

[Gina Stevenson]

I always thought he was a scary-weird writer with major mental issues, until I actually picked up a book to read it.Yes, funny how actually reading something can make a difference, huh? :rolleyes:

Having read nearly everything he's published now, I'm completely convinced that Stephen King's reputation as a "horror writer" is undeserved and given to him by people who don't get his work.
Well, if it's undeserved, they've sure made the movies continue that reputation, if not deserved ... some, or most, of the previews have scared this kid away from his movies! Having dreamed about too many things in my lifetime that I've watched, I've been, for many years, very careful of what I will allow myself to watch. Perhaps the books -- tho' they can definitely create an atmosphere -- aren't horrific enough as the movies seem to be that I couldn't stand them. So, which one might you suggest a rather squeamish person, not liking horror stories at all, might start with ... the least horrific, if any horror is involved, OK? ;)

One thing I did do was pick up the book by Stephen King in Target one day [must be a couple of years ago, yet I recall which store it was; funny, huh, since I'll browse books here & there sometimes] ... after he'd had that bad accident [hit & run while jogging, if I rightly recall??] ... wanted, I guess, to see if it got his tho'ts going to things eternal, rather than "weird/horrific."

So, curious as to whether the one that you said seems to most grapple with theological issues might have been written since that time, rather than before; know the timeline there(?), Andrew, as I have gotten curious since picking up his autobiographical book in recent years, re trying one of his other books ... but haven't been curious enough to actually do it ... until you posted this! LOOK WHAT NAZNET HATH WROUGHT!! ha!

His books have scary-weird settings (an America devastated by plague, cell phones causing people to go feral, haunted hotels, etc.), but that's the extent of the scary-weirdness. He deals with some very hard theological and spiritual issues in most, if not all, his books. I think the question he raises most often is the problem of evil, and I'd love to know if he's ever read C.S. Lewis' "The Problem of Pain" and "A Grief Observed."
Already addressed above, won't go here again ... tho' I didn't recall your mentioning his possibly having read CS Lewis. Interesting tho't ......... God is more busy in this world than we might know, eh? Of course He is!! Folks just don't always find themselves easily believing that there are some things going on in others' lives that they're just not wanting to talk about ... yet. Not talking doesn't mean nothin's goin' on!! ;)

I think the two books of his that have had the greatest impact on me spiritually were "The Stand," and "Desperation." Those are the two most blatantly theological novels he's written.
OK, I asked above which book to start with ... perhaps one of these two ... or another? If one of these two, which one might be a good "Stephen King starter book" ... ??

Part of the reason I enjoyed these books is that they didn't come to any certain conclusions about God; they simply raised questions and grappled with them. And I don't think there's enough of that in the Christian world - we're too busy trying to defend a God who really doesn't need defending, too busy trying to justify our faith in our own eyes, so that all we have are dogmatic conclusions, no loose ends, and very little mystery - and that's not the God I'm re-discovering by reading the Bible as if for the first time.
For sure! God is God ... our defense is going to make Him larger than He already is? No, tho' it can (if a sheer witness without defensiveness) possibly make others sit up & take note ... sometimes. As for mystery, if you could get your hands on, "Art & the Mystery of the Gospel" ... a cool out-of-print book ... unless they've finally decided to reprint it ... you might enjoy it. It's by David & I forgot his last name. Not sure where it is at the moment ... one of my favorite books I couldn't part with (since it dealt with the "arts" including music, not just "art" as in paintings), but haven't read in a long time.

That's partly what has kept me a Christian where his work is concerned. King and U2 served to "free my mind," to use the term from the Matrix films. To explore, and wrestle, and seek, and pursue this God who has spent eternity pursuing me. I find that God invites (dares?) us to ask Him questions, to express our misunderstanding and confusion, and even anger.
You're quite right here ... when I wrote the song (in intro area on NN here), "Why?" it was re the particular incident that God was suggesting I not ask "why?" not that He always does that; I was just asking "Why?" too much, I guess, so finally I heard one of those "loud-in-one's-mind" suggestions: "Don't ask 'why?' ... just trust me." Hence, the song followed. ;)

Those things are part of the human experience as much as love, belief, etc. and I think God wants all of us, not just the good and favorable parts.
Yes, He does ... He knows what's in our heart, anyway, so if we've had a hard time with many circumstances ... have hurt ... anger ... etc with which to deal, just tell Him; He knows, anyway.

[/quote=Andrew]King and U2, along with C.S. Lewis, have really freed me to set aside any religious image I might try to surround myself with, trying to make myself worthy of God.[/quote]

Thanks for the thought-provoking post, Andrew! blessings!

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[Andrew J. Pottenger]

"Desperation" may prove a little too graphic in a few places (there are some pretty brutal scenes), but it tackles the basic problem modern man has with Christianity and religion in general: the problem of evil. For that reason, I think this book offers valuable insight into a world that wants to believe, but can't.

"The Stand" does the same thing, but probably a bit less graphic. It is pretty long, though, at about 1100 pages. But it is so worth the length. You really get to know the characters extremely well, and you care about them, and you sympathize with their dilemmas, and you even have compassion for a few of the bad guys. God's will, what that is and how to know it, is probably the main spiritual issue involved. Other moral issues are dealt with, such as the ethics of survival.

"Starter" books of Stephen King's??? I'd say start with the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." Don't bother with the film, read the story. That will introduce you to how good a storyteller King is, what kind of sympathetic yet flawed characters he can create, but doesn't include anything creepy or supernatural. "The Green Mile," another prison story, is also an extremely good place to start. To work your way into more typical Stephen King territory, where the haunted supernatural stuff serves as the setting for the author to write a story about people, I'd start with "Bag of Bones." If you feel daring and want to see how Stephen King can make you gradually believe in something really wild (a kind of prevenient grace, if you think about it that way), pick up the collection "Skeleton Crew," and read the novella entitled "The Mist."

[Gina Stevenson]

Thanks for all this detailed "stuff," Andrew. I'll save this post, and then check the library for some of them.

BTW, have you checked out his book that was about him, rather than a story?

"Desperation" may prove a little too graphic in a few places (there are some pretty brutal scenes), but it tackles the basic problem modern man has with Christianity and religion in general: the problem of evil. For that reason, I think this book offers valuable insight into a world that wants to believe, but can't.

"The Stand" does the same thing, but probably a bit less graphic. It is pretty long, though, at about 1100 pages. But it is so worth the length. You really get to know the characters extremely well, and you care about them, and you sympathize with their dilemmas, and you even have compassion for a few of the bad guys. God's will, what that is and how to know it, is probably the main spiritual issue involved. Other moral issues are dealt with, such as the ethics of survival.

"Starter" books of Stephen King's??? I'd say start with the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." Don't bother with the film, read the story. That will introduce you to how good a storyteller King is, what kind of sympathetic yet flawed characters he can create, but doesn't include anything creepy or supernatural. "The Green Mile," another prison story, is also an extremely good place to start. To work your way into more typical Stephen King territory, where the haunted supernatural stuff serves as the setting for the author to write a story about people, I'd start with "Bag of Bones." If you feel daring and want to see how Stephen King can make you gradually believe in something really wild (a kind of prevenient grace, if you think about it that way), pick up the collection "Skeleton Crew," and read the novella entitled "The Mist."

[Paul Whitaker]

Earl Darden - when he pastored Ardmore, OK

[Brad Mercer]

Earl Darden - when he pastored Ardmore, OK

Cool! Earl Darden is one of my heroes! He was our pastor at North Little Rock First Church when my mother recommitted her life to the Lord and my dad got saved. Daddy thought church was for women and children until he met Brother Darden, who was 6'2" or 6'3" and could crush his hand in a handshake, but who could cry in public when he talked about the love of God.

Brother Darden was pastoring a church of 500 or so with no associates or staff, and somehow found time to track my mother down from an old Sunday School roll and invited her back to church. My life and the life of a number of other people have been profoundly different as a result of that action and his subsequent ministry to my family.

He dedicated me to the Lord when I was about 4 years old. More recently, when he was over 80, he was a part time associate pastor at the Richardson Church of the Nazarene. He drove a little MG Midget convertible and could tell you off the top of his head how many visitors that church of 600 had had in the previous month, and how many of them were prospects from the church, and give you individual information about each of them. On a church retreat, the pastor's wife fell off a horse and Brother Darden galloped up behind her, swept her up on to his saddle behind him with one hand, and took her back to the stables.

Last year he attended and spoke at my parent's 50th wedding anniversary party. Both physically and spiritually, he is my hero.

Brad

[Paul Whitaker]

Pastor Darden and Ruth kept my sister and me when our grandmother was taken from Ardmore to OKC. Our folks left us with the Dardens.
My cousin, Justin Rice, married Phyllis Darden. Our grandson was in Justin and Phyllis's daughter's (Gina) wedding.

Now the Dardens are our 'kissin cousins'.
I will always love that man and his family.

That MG is still in the family!

[Mark Doble]

Who has or had the most impact in your becoming a christian?

I know that many of you grew up in the church. I did not, I was 40 before I accepted Jesus into my life and asked for forgiveness.

With that being said, I'm really curious about everyone else.... care to share?

Um, When I was 13 I visited a church that when I entered the doors felt the love of God all over me. Later that night I knelt beside my bed and accepted Christ. I just knew I had to. Christ led me to Himself.

[Eugenia Whitten]

Easter Sunday 3 years ago - Paster Randy Dodd - Sarasota First Church of the Nazarene.
Now, Paster Garry Edwards Crosswalk Church of the Nazarene, Michigan

[Scott Rambo]

There were these three guys on my base in the Presidio of Monterey. The only name I remember is Cliff Wright. Then he was an Air Force linguist. Now he's a Nazarene missionary to the Ukraine.

[Jill Mickelson]

***the church we went to told us that if we were "good" and were baptized (as an infant) that we would go to Heaven.
***at Bible Camp as a young teen, we were discussing the Bible. Looking back, I know that during that short time, outside, in a little Bible Study, I felt the Holy Spirit. At the time I knew something was happening but didn't know what.
***First time I heard about the way to be saved was at a Lowell Lundstrom Crusade when I was in College. I held on to my seat during the invitation, because "my church didn't teach that"....if I wouldn't have held on to my seat, I would have gone forward.
***Years later, I was teaching Childbirth Classes. I had 2 helpers that were selected by the Home Care Department of the Hospital. I knew who they were. Even though I loved Jesus, they were very annoying because all they could do was talk about Jesus.
***after that, I began asking myself questions. I'd get an answer. After that happened a few times, I think I knew that God was answering my questions. WHEW....I didn't know God talked to people. One day Billy Graham came on TV and started his message like this: "I was going to speak on something else, but the LORD changed my message." The next words from his mouth, was the answer to my last question! HALLELUIA! I GOT SAVED THAT DAY!

[Garth Lahana]

I would have to say firstly God's Holy Spirit who convicted me of my sin, almost two years ago now. Thats when I realized that I needed Jesus Christ in my life. A great man of faith Grantley Morris who helped me in a very dark time in my life, and now our pastor David who encourages me very much.

Garth

[Roland Hearn]

I grew up in the Church of the Nazarene.
Everybody important to me was a Nazarene. I, like most people in similar situations, found myself making fairly regular trips to the altar for both salvation and sanctification. In my early 20's a horrible tragedy occurred in my life, which 24 years later still makes me want to cry when I think about it, and I walked away from the faith I was raised in. However, true to His word He never left me nor forsook me, and the prayers of godly parents and lives that were lived out in faith before me led me to encounter Christ late one evening in my own bedroom. It is as real to me as any conversation I have ever had when Jesus walked into my bedroom and said, “I want you back.” That’s all He said. I came back.

[David Cash]

Probably my parents and Sunday school teachers influenced me to pray for salvation when I was very young. Fear that I wasn't really saved led me to pray a couple times after that in my childhood.

It was mostly a booklet by the late Baptist evangelist John R. Rice that I read as a teenager that brought me to a clearer understanding of what it means to be saved by grace through faith alone. That led me to what you might call rededication or making sure of my salvation when I was 16 or 17.

David Cash

[Gerald Spear]

This post reminds me of the importance of pastors having and taking time to visit
prospects and church families in their homes on a regular basis ( I know that in this day and age, it is not thought, to be the pastors duty to visit).
My family was contacted by a pastor, E. J. Osborne, who thought and knew, it was part of his calling to get acquainted with "his flock".

I credit his concern and "fathering" as having the mosy impact on my life and my families lives. I was 3 yrs. of age went my family became christians,some 64 years ago now.

Even after he had retired and I was living in another state, He called me aside on a Sunday when I was home on a visit and said "Gerald, I just want to remind you that I still pray for you everyday"

I move back to my home town, later in life, and started a business and built a building, Bro. Osborne was still living here in retirement, he came by one day to visit and see my building, he ask if he could pray a prayer for me and my business, we walk all over the building and he prayed as he walked and ask God's blessings upon me and the business that God had given me.

He passed away about 6 yrs ago, his prayers though prayed many years ago are still being answered daily in a new and refreshing way.

[Christine Kelly]

As a young child, my mom. However, if I would have stayed in the denomination I was in, I would not be the Christian I am today.

At age 18, I was a victim of a violent crime. Growing up in church, I thought God didn't have his hand on me. Was out of church for 6 months (the length of time the crime went unreported), then the officer who took my complaint (was Nazarene) and led me back to the Lord that night. After that, and a change in denomination, I would have to say Pastor Wes Kenyon played a part in helping me recognize the Christian I needed to be.

Christine

[Meghan Schoonover]

Wow, what a refreshing read. I am crying happy tears! Amazing who and what the Lord has used to bring us to Him.

My folks raised me in the church and I am thankful for the heritage I was taught. My uncle and his family had tremendous impact on me as well as I attended the Bible Club held in their basement, went to their YG, church camps etc. (our church was smaller so didn't have those sorts of programs). They still impact me and my cousins are like my brothers and sisters (I have no siblings).

In my college/grown up years, it's the congregations and pastors of Concordia Lutheran, Pullman Baptist, Simpson UMC, and Zillah First Church of the Nazarene that have kept me grounded, encouraged, and growing.

[Terri Knoll]

Who has or had the most impact in your becoming a christian?

I know that many of you grew up in the church. I did not, I was 40 before I accepted Jesus into my life and asked for forgiveness.

With that being said, I'm really curious about everyone else.... care to share?

several humans helped, but it was Jesus and His life that showed and continues to show me what christianity is all about. I am so blessed to know Him!