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I want to take this opportunity to tell you about my experience of salvation with God and my call from God to preach his blessed word.

I had been taken to church every since I was two weeks old. My mom taught me in Sunday school and my dad is an ordained deacon at the church. I had heard the gospel of Jesus Christ all my life but when I was nine years old it had a different effect on me. I can’t remember the exact day or the exact month but I can remember exactly what happened. I was sitting on the front pew there at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and people were testifying of the goodness of God and his saving grace. I didn’t know why but I started to cry. My sister noticed and came and sat down beside me and asked me what was wrong. This is when the sprit of God revealed to me that I was lost and separated from God. A burden of guilt and fear rolled into my heart. I realized that I was a sinner and immediately I started seeking God for the salvation of my soul. I sought God for about two years always holding on to the things of this world never fully trusting in him. When I was eleven during our fall revival Elder Don Watts was preaching from Revelations 6:8 and preaching about the pale horse and its rider death and hell followed with him. The spirit of God showed me that this horse and its rider were coming after me, the reality of death and hell came to me. I sought God with all my heart repenting and trusting, begging Him to save me. I didn’t know what was going on around me or who was even there; I just knew that it was between me and God. At the moment that I fully trusted and fully repented and turned it all over to God, the burden of guilt and fear was taken away and replaced with a peace. This peace that God gave me will take me to heaven where I will be able to thank Christ for giving his life for me.

When I was 16 years old the Lord spoke to my heart once again. This time God told me to preach his word, it was like he was sitting right next to me. The first thing I did was make excuses to God about why I couldn’t preach his word. With every excuse God would assure me that he would be with me. For about three months I continued to give God excuses and the burden to preach His word continued to get stronger. On the fifth Sunday in January in 1988 that afternoon I gave into the burden to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. That night at church my dad was teaching on the musical notes in singing, before he got started he asked if anyone had any prayer request. I stood to my feet and asked the church to pray for me because the Lord had called me to preach. On February 14th 1988 on Valentines Day just a few weeks before my 17th birthday I stood for the first time to preach God’s word. I have been trying to preach every opportunity I get since that day. Preaching God’s word has been one of the greatest blessings in my life. On February 12th 1989 I became a licensed minister of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church where I am still a member today.