Carlton and Jenny

In my early years I was raised in a Baptist Church. That is where I first heard about Christ. At the age of 10 I made a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and was baptized. In my profession I was sincere but there was no working of the Holy Spirit that changed my Life.

At the age of 16 God started to reveal to me my lostness and depravity. I came under conviction about my sinful state before God. I did everything I was taught about being saved to relieve the burden but peace never came. I prayed the sinners prayer, read the Romans Road and anything else you could think of that was religious. These things did not save me. It wasn’t until one evening when I was exhausted and finished with these things that I called on God and told Him, “Lord I can’t do this. If I am going to be saved you are going to have to do it. ” and in that instant the Holy Spirit invaded my life.

For the first time in my life I felt clean before God. As many people have said in the past, I felt a great burden lifted off of me. I was experiencing for the very first time the peace of God. What I experienced was not my salvation but rather the effects of my conversion. Peace with God. Holiness before God. No condemnation. I was just experiencing for the first time what God had done for me by redeeming me.

At the age of 18 I experienced a distinct call of God on my life to preach. I surrendered to that call a short time later. Previous to this God had already impressed me to enroll at Mid-Continent Bible College, which I did. I am now a graduate of Mid-Continent Bible College with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in biblical studies and double minoring in theology and social studies.

My goal is to follow the leadership and direction of the Holy Spirit. God has placed in me desires to teach the truths that are revealed in scripture and disciple people in the word. To Christians these truths are our life and breath. They give us insight into God who sustains us for His own Glory.