Post by homesteaders6 on Sept 15, 2009 16:08:06 GMT -5
Hello to everyone,
My name is Trisha, my husband is Gabriel, and our 2 daughters are Alba, 18, and Sara, 16. I'm so glad we found this place! Bro Ben said I should post my testimony here, to give you all an idea of where we came from, and where we now stand. I'm just kind of copying and pasting my intro email to Bro. Ben.
I was not raised in a Godly home at all, but I was allowed to go to church, as long as I had a ride. I was saved at 14 in a Fundamental Baptist Church, and baptized at 17. My future was decided for me by my mother, and my sister and I were sent into the U.S. Army as soon as we graduated. I went on to live a life of sin for many years. I became a heavy smoker, and a heavy drinker. Then, at the age of 27, after being married at a young age, divorced, and living with another man, I "hit the bottom", and the Lord was finally able to get my attention again. He took away my desire to drink, and later, for smoking. He helped me to turn my eyes upon my 4 children with a renewed heart, and just brought me home to Him. I married that man, and he became saved, as well. We moved from Florida to Pennsylvania, where I was born, and started going to our family church, a United Methodist church. After 10 years there, we knew that we didn't belong there, we'd begun to wear dresses all the time, and were looked upon as "weird". The more we studied our bibles, the more we realized that we couldn't remain in that church, and so after a year of praying, we left. We began attending a small Independent Baptist Church, where our children were already attending school there. We'd been there for 3 1/2 years, growing in the Lord, as He continued to work on our hearts. The school closed, and we went back to homeschooling our last schoolage child, as we'd done before. We began to realize that our pastor was preaching things that didn't fit the Bible. Things like hating your enemies was right, for example. It made us uncomfortable, but we didn't want to leave another church! Out of the blue, we became convicted to wear head coverings. It was a very difficult time, because I was too afraid of what our friends and family would think! As I submitted myself to God's will, I knew without a doubt that we were doing the right thing. At first our pastor seemed to accept it, even though it didn't agree with it. But as the weeks went by, he seemed to become more angry with us, and began to preach "against us" from the pulpit. Finally, last week, we sat down with him, and he wanted to know what was wrong with us. We explained to him that we didn't agree with the hate that he preached about his enemies, or those that had wronged him, making fun of the unsaved and ridiculing them. He never brought up the coverings, but he said if we can't submit to his authority, then we had no business being in his church. He said we were causing tension in the church. So we left, not in anger, because we told him we didn't want to cause trouble with the church, and had never spoken about our problems, or talked behind his back to church members, and wouldn't start now.
The reason I said all this, is to explain our situation. Sorry it was a long story! The Lord has led us on such a path! And we don't intend to stop now.
So here we are. We have no church, and no church family. Another IFB family called us with much anger, and said our girls couldn't spend time with their girls anymore, so we have pretty much ruled out any IFB churches. We so much desire to find a church that would accept our head coverings, and the plain dress that we are converting to, as well as share our same Baptist faith in God. We are reaching out, in the hope that we might find other Baptists like us, and even to find a place nearby to worship with others like us! When I did a search in yahoo, under "head covering baptists", I had no idea you were out there! When I saw the picture of Bro. Ben and his wife, and saw his wife's covering and lovely dress, I almost cried. We're not alone!!
One of the reasons I've come here, too, is to reach out and see if anyone knows how to find a head covering church in our area. We live about 30 miles south of Erie, Pa.
I'm so glad to have found you all!!!
Blessings in Christ,
Trisha
My name is Trisha, my husband is Gabriel, and our 2 daughters are Alba, 18, and Sara, 16. I'm so glad we found this place! Bro Ben said I should post my testimony here, to give you all an idea of where we came from, and where we now stand. I'm just kind of copying and pasting my intro email to Bro. Ben.
I was not raised in a Godly home at all, but I was allowed to go to church, as long as I had a ride. I was saved at 14 in a Fundamental Baptist Church, and baptized at 17. My future was decided for me by my mother, and my sister and I were sent into the U.S. Army as soon as we graduated. I went on to live a life of sin for many years. I became a heavy smoker, and a heavy drinker. Then, at the age of 27, after being married at a young age, divorced, and living with another man, I "hit the bottom", and the Lord was finally able to get my attention again. He took away my desire to drink, and later, for smoking. He helped me to turn my eyes upon my 4 children with a renewed heart, and just brought me home to Him. I married that man, and he became saved, as well. We moved from Florida to Pennsylvania, where I was born, and started going to our family church, a United Methodist church. After 10 years there, we knew that we didn't belong there, we'd begun to wear dresses all the time, and were looked upon as "weird". The more we studied our bibles, the more we realized that we couldn't remain in that church, and so after a year of praying, we left. We began attending a small Independent Baptist Church, where our children were already attending school there. We'd been there for 3 1/2 years, growing in the Lord, as He continued to work on our hearts. The school closed, and we went back to homeschooling our last schoolage child, as we'd done before. We began to realize that our pastor was preaching things that didn't fit the Bible. Things like hating your enemies was right, for example. It made us uncomfortable, but we didn't want to leave another church! Out of the blue, we became convicted to wear head coverings. It was a very difficult time, because I was too afraid of what our friends and family would think! As I submitted myself to God's will, I knew without a doubt that we were doing the right thing. At first our pastor seemed to accept it, even though it didn't agree with it. But as the weeks went by, he seemed to become more angry with us, and began to preach "against us" from the pulpit. Finally, last week, we sat down with him, and he wanted to know what was wrong with us. We explained to him that we didn't agree with the hate that he preached about his enemies, or those that had wronged him, making fun of the unsaved and ridiculing them. He never brought up the coverings, but he said if we can't submit to his authority, then we had no business being in his church. He said we were causing tension in the church. So we left, not in anger, because we told him we didn't want to cause trouble with the church, and had never spoken about our problems, or talked behind his back to church members, and wouldn't start now.
The reason I said all this, is to explain our situation. Sorry it was a long story! The Lord has led us on such a path! And we don't intend to stop now.
So here we are. We have no church, and no church family. Another IFB family called us with much anger, and said our girls couldn't spend time with their girls anymore, so we have pretty much ruled out any IFB churches. We so much desire to find a church that would accept our head coverings, and the plain dress that we are converting to, as well as share our same Baptist faith in God. We are reaching out, in the hope that we might find other Baptists like us, and even to find a place nearby to worship with others like us! When I did a search in yahoo, under "head covering baptists", I had no idea you were out there! When I saw the picture of Bro. Ben and his wife, and saw his wife's covering and lovely dress, I almost cried. We're not alone!!
One of the reasons I've come here, too, is to reach out and see if anyone knows how to find a head covering church in our area. We live about 30 miles south of Erie, Pa.
I'm so glad to have found you all!!!
Blessings in Christ,
Trisha
We are thankful to have found you, right when we needed it the most, for sure. The Lord knows just when we need help, or even just a comforting word. And it's ok that we're so far apart, or that we don't have the wherewithall to move out there, but we can still support one another like this 
