Jeremiah’s Testimony

As a 9 year old boy in 2002, I got saved at Faith Baptist Camp while Bro. Sammy Allen was preaching. I have made some professions since then, but when I go back I truly know this was when I was saved. In 2006, my parents went to Honduras as missionaries where I spent my teen years. Due to some bad situations and circumstances, I drifted from the Lord and lived in sin. I never got out of church, but was far from the Lord. My wife and I got married in 2014 and I focused on building a good life for us together. For many years, I worked lots of long hours and days trying to climb the ladder of “success”. It wasn’t until 2023 that the Lord started dealing with me that what I was working for here would mean nothing in eternity. I submitted to the Lord whatever and wherever He wanted for us. 2024 brought a lot of changes to our family, I left my six figure government job to embark on running my contractor business full time. This allowed me to assist on four different  missions trips during that year. I wasn’t sure what the Lord wanted for us but I wanted to serve with every opportunity that was available. One  of the trips was with Bro. Duane Moore, we visited Bro. Don Hilbun in Santa Barbara, Honduras - this was two hours from where I grew up. The Lord showed me the need for help. Bro. Don is currently serving to his fullest extent pastoring the church there, running a Children’s home, and all that that entails. The Lord dealt with me while on the trip and gave me a Lamentations 3:51 moment.

I had started praying and talked to my wife regarding the trip and the opportunities there, not knowing that the Lord had already been working in her heart. At the end of the trip, Bro. Don talked to me about the need and desire for the Lord to send someone to help. Our family made a trip down to work in November where we connected with the children and church, and the Lord confirmed in our hearts that is where are to serve and fill the position as Director over the Children’s Home. We feel the Lord has allowed situations and things to happen in our lives that has prepared us for such a time as this.

 

Kelsey’s Testimony

I was taken to church by my granny until 1999, when my parents got in church and got saved. I never remember a time not being in church when the doors were open. God truly intervened in the path of my parents. I made a profession of faith at 6 years old, but it was never real to me.

In January of 2008, my Granny who I was very close to went to be with the Lord. She was my best friend and it truly broke me. The Lord used that to draw me to Himself. A few weeks later on January 27, I seen myself as a sinner in need of a Savior and trusted in Him and the work He done on Calvary. I can honestly say, I’ve not always been faithful, but He has. I’ve stumbled and tripped over the simplicity of the

Gospel doubting my salvation because of feelings, but it’s nothing that I have done or can do. My faith is in what He has already done for me. It is enough that Jesus died and that He died for me.

I had truly desired the will of the Lord for my life through my teen years, but got slack and caught up in “life”. Becoming a mother was a true wake up call to my Christianity if I can say it that way. I realized that I could lead my little ones to Heaven or Hell, and to lead them in the right way was not going to happen accidentally. I knew it was time to get in or get out and to really get serious. I had seen in our own church what would happen if I did or didn’t and I knew their souls were not something to take a chance on.

I’ve always loved missions and missionaries but never really thought that the Lord would use me in that capacity. I knew JT was a missionary kid, but it was never his/our intent to be a missionary. In 2023, I seen the Lord start to really change his heart. He was privileged to have the opportunity to go on several missions trips and serve, and I thought that may just be what we “did”. While on his trip to Honduras, we spoke often and he told me of the children there and the terrible things they had faced and endured. I was questioning to myself how hard would it be to start a children’s home and help other kids who were facing the same challenges. (JT and I talked often before we were married of adopting and had started the process of becoming foster care parents at one time.) At the same time these questions are running through my mind, he had messaged me telling me that Bro. Don was looking for someone to take over in his stead of running the children’s home. Immediately I knew, but thought, “Oh no, no, no, I don’t think this is it Lord”. After our family was able to visit the children’s home in Honduras a few months later, I knew it was, “Yes, Lord this will be our home.” The Lord gave me peace that it is His will for us to serve there. Every time I have questioned or doubted, He has always reassured it in my heart through scriptures and daily devotion. I know there will be many challenges and obstacles, but look forward to serving where the Lord has called us.