I was saved at the age of 16 through the ministry of Steve Pettit during a week of revival meeting at my Christian school.
When I was nine years old I had prayed the sinners prayer with my parents one night after church but did not understand what I was doing. I did not understand that I was a sinner on my way to hell. And so I had at different times doubts about my salvation. There was a emptiness inside me and a longing for something that I did not have. I did not know it at the time but God was working in my life to bring me to the point of salvation. Several weeks before the week of revival meetings, I began to have serious doubts about my salvation and began to plead with God to make it clear to me if I was saved or not.
Throughout the week God began to make it clear to me that that I was lost and on my way to hell. I wrestled with God for the first part of the week, then on Thursday morning after the first meeting, I spoke to a teacher and told him that I needed to be saved. I repented of my sin and received Christ as Savior, a few months later I was baptized.
I was born on the Navajo Indian reservation where my parents were Missionaries. I have always had an interest missions, but it was not until 2005 that God make it clear to me that He wanted me to serve him in full time ministry as a missionary. So I began my college studies to prepare for the mission field.
I knew God was calling me into mission but was not sure where he wanted me. I had been praying about where I should go and was open to any place God would have me go. Over the years watching missionaries come through various churches and at collage, I never saw any that were going to Europe, in particular Germany. This laid a great burden on my heart. My father was born and raised in Germany and so the lack of missionaries going to Germany was of great concern to me. It was on a summer missions trip to Hermosillo, Mexico during a evening service that God impressed on my heart that Germany was where He wanted me to serve. However because this is where I would naturally want to go I prayed and asked the Lord if this was not where He wanted me to remove the desire, however the desire only became stronger.
During the month of July in 2012, my wife and I took a missions trip to Germany under the Baptist Mid-Missions First Look Program. God used this trip to confirm our call to serve Him in Germany as missionaries.
When I was nine years old I had prayed the sinners prayer with my parents one night after church but did not understand what I was doing. I did not understand that I was a sinner on my way to hell. And so I had at different times doubts about my salvation. There was a emptiness inside me and a longing for something that I did not have. I did not know it at the time but God was working in my life to bring me to the point of salvation. Several weeks before the week of revival meetings, I began to have serious doubts about my salvation and began to plead with God to make it clear to me if I was saved or not.
Throughout the week God began to make it clear to me that that I was lost and on my way to hell. I wrestled with God for the first part of the week, then on Thursday morning after the first meeting, I spoke to a teacher and told him that I needed to be saved. I repented of my sin and received Christ as Savior, a few months later I was baptized.
I was born on the Navajo Indian reservation where my parents were Missionaries. I have always had an interest missions, but it was not until 2005 that God make it clear to me that He wanted me to serve him in full time ministry as a missionary. So I began my college studies to prepare for the mission field.
I knew God was calling me into mission but was not sure where he wanted me. I had been praying about where I should go and was open to any place God would have me go. Over the years watching missionaries come through various churches and at collage, I never saw any that were going to Europe, in particular Germany. This laid a great burden on my heart. My father was born and raised in Germany and so the lack of missionaries going to Germany was of great concern to me. It was on a summer missions trip to Hermosillo, Mexico during a evening service that God impressed on my heart that Germany was where He wanted me to serve. However because this is where I would naturally want to go I prayed and asked the Lord if this was not where He wanted me to remove the desire, however the desire only became stronger.
During the month of July in 2012, my wife and I took a missions trip to Germany under the Baptist Mid-Missions First Look Program. God used this trip to confirm our call to serve Him in Germany as missionaries.