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South Tenerife Christian Fellowship
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I didn’t ask to be a Christian! I didn’t want to be a Christian! To be a Christian was the last thing I wanted! But here I am today, proudly confessing in print that I am a Christian. |
I have returned to the Good Lord God after over
40 years in the wilderness.
In April 2006, while my wife was ill in hospital here in Tenerife, she was visited
by people
from the Christian Fellowship, who prayed unceasingly for her, both at the hospital and
at the church. When my wife passed away a short time later the Christian Fellowship was
a tower of strength to me, and to show my appreciation I decided to attend a couple of
Sunday services to thank all the wonderful people that had offered up their prayers for
my wife and for myself, and then to revert back to my former way of living.
It didn’t turn out that way.
Talking, listening and watching the Christian Fellowship congregation, it came
to me that there must be more to life than the one I was leading, so I became a regular
face at the Sunday morning services.
This led me to attending an Alpha Course, Prayer Meetings and Bible Studies and
before long I found myself talking to the Lord in prayer.
One of the Lord's answers to a question that I was asking was that I should open
my heart to Him.
I tried this, but failed miserably initially, the Devil had other ideas; he had
been my companion for so long that I found it very difficult to come to terms with
what was happening to me. The name Jesus kept entering my mind at all hours of the
day and night, and after much internal strife, personal problems, conversations with,
and the help of Pastor Adrian, my dear friend Trish (who incidentally had introduced
my wife to the Fellowship)and all of my new found friends at STCF, I finally had had
to admit that the Lord had entered my heart and that I was a re-born Christian and
that the Lord is
with me at all times.
The Lord Jesus has turned my life around into something that I didn’t think could
be possible. If he can do it for me, he can do it for you!
Terry