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My Testimony by Debra Jouglard
I was 13 when I accepted Christ. At the time we were having a Revival in our Church in Texas. The Preacher that was leading the Revival was Bo Baker and his brother Dick Baker was there to lead the music. We had a youth service on this particular Sunday and my Mom said that she would go down and move her letter to this church. My brother who was nine at the time also wanted to go down and accept Christ. So it was only going to be the two of them until I came out of the Youth Service and told mom that I wanted to go down and accept Christ. So when the service was over and the invitation was given my mom , brother and I got up to go down to the front. My dad was there with our youngest brother who was only four. My dad had not planned on ever joining the church and being baptized because he was raised in the Catholic Church. But as we were walking down the aisle my mom turned around to see my dad coming as well. We all became Christians that day in March of 1967. My dad , brother and I were baptized the following Sunday and three years later they asked my dad to become a Deacon in the Church. We spent our lives in the service of the Church My Mom and Dad taught in 2nd grade Sunday School and then taught 10th grade Sunday School. I was in the Youth Choir and we were called the New Hope Singers. When my brothers were teens they were in it as well. I became a teacher in the Mission Friends Group and with the Girls Auxillary. I also taught in the Preschool Choir. I later became a Director and Teacher in the Bed Baby Class . Years after all of this my grandmother was living with us and she was dying from cancer of the colon. As she lay there she would get up and sit on the side of her bed and say she needed to go. She kept telling us she was in a line and that it was not her turn yet. She would also put her hands out and then put them to her mouth as if eating and she was being fed the manna from Heaven to prepare her for her journey. The angels were all around her. Then as she got closer to the gate she began seeing her parents my grandfather and others in the family that had gone on before. I am here to tell you that as she was going through this there were many of our family that were there the day she died and they were witnesses to all of this. Some of them were not Christians but have since become Christians. I leave now with this as my testimony as to the True Christ and His Love for us. May God Bless All who read this.
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