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Meeting Christ
I would like to share my testimony about the love I experienced at New Testament Christian Churches of America.
I was a mess when I came to New Testament Christian Church for the first time. I was High, smelled like I slept in my beer and lit my cigarette right there in the parking lot. It was just a week or so before coming to NTCC, that I was homeless. I was sleeping in the car, I was hooked on Meth & Crack, not to mention the junk I used to drink from rising of to the setting of the sun. I had no money & I was an unfit parent. Did I mention that I was broke, but I was accepted, I was welcomed, I was and I am loved!
When I came into the church I was greeted by smiling faces, no one looked down on me. No one that I noticed anyway. I was hugged by Sister Kekel, (my first Pastor’s wife) and many, many others. I was accepted into this wonderful family without anyone expecting anything from me. I was saved that day, and never went back to the cigarettes, the bottle or the pipe. Instead I had a real family for the first time in my life. Oh sure, I have my parents, but they were not there for me when I was going threw withdrawals, the precious people within this church were. My family was not standing in the rain late at night on my porch telling me that they and God loved me no matter what I was going through. There are people in this church who love me and have ALWAYS showed their concern for me, but not for me alone. There are MANY others who can share the same things. Others know of the love of the people in New Testament Christian Church.
I am happy to share that my little sister(in her late twenties) gave her heart and life to God and is attending NTCC also. It is a blessing! I am looking forward to see how much she grows in her relationship with God. I would tell you her entire testimony, if I knew all that God did for her. I can tell you that God delivered her from a pretty rough situation. God is moving and blessing. His kingdom is growing!
God is reaching the lost through the people of New Testament Christian Church as He has before, I believe He will continue to do so. I would like to offer an invitation to you, if you are not already attending one of our churches, to come and see!! See all that God has to offer. You can hear a wonderful Holy Ghost filled message and join in on some Gospel singing.
God bless you all.
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Searching for Jesus
I was looking for a pay phone to get some phone numbers to find a listing of apartments. I was driving around and stopped inside of a laundromat and was looking inside of a phone book.
Sis. V. King was inside doing laundry. I don't know how we started talking. But she was very kind to call her husband Rev. R. King and he was mentioning some places to me. I thanked him and said goodbye. And thanked her and was walking back out to my car.
She had came out right after me and handed me a flyer of the church. I did not call right away. But once I moved in my place I remembered the flyer and called her. Yes, she remembered me.
I went out to the church. (Almost turned around because I never went to a church that was inside of house before). But they came to the door and I thought to myself I can't turn around now.
It was a small group, they were just beginning. But I knew something was there, something good. They loved me (something I was wanting for a long time, because my life was going down fast, and I do mean fast). I knew God was there. But I wasn't ready to give my life to him. I had plans, I had things worked out in my mind of what I was going to do, and nobody was going to stand in my way of doing what "I" wanted to do. I said to myself I am just coming to church because you all were nice to me.
But I went back. And that was when I gave my life to the Lord.
It was the love. That's what I have always longed for. I went looking elsewhere before I became a Christian. But Jesus was there, but I just pushed him away when I would lay awake sometimes at night. But I am thankful for His love and mercy that he showed me throughout those years. And I'm thankful that there was a New Testament Christian Church with a man and a woman who cared and loved me. Who took time for me.
NOBODY can't tell me that God is not love.
-Deidre Porterfield
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