About JC Reagan

Welcome to my testimony page. Life, for me, has been a series of circumstances that have deepened my relationship with Christ. I want to share a little about what he has done in my life. Read on!

I am being raised in a loving, Christian home. My parents have endeavored to teach me how to be a godly man from birth onward. I was two or three when I asked Christ into my heart. I was so young that I really don't remember it. I do know that He has been in me since I was small.

I have always had a relationship with Christ. My relationship as a child was that of a child-like faith. I looked upon God as a small child looks upon his father. As I grew older I could talk to my dad easier, so it is the same with my Heavenly Father.

As I matured and had several experiences with God I started to get to know him better. It was at a camp in June 1996, that I really started to be a lover instead of just being loved. I learned how to start experiencing the love of God and how to go after Him with all my heart.

Also at this camp, I met my first true friend. John and I hung out together at camp. We had lots of fun. But the real friendship began when we started to correspond. We got to know each other through the mail and I was helped along in my relationship with God by the way John was there for me.

During that time I still was having trouble wanting to give everything over to God. It wasn't a conscious thought or action, but I still wasn't committed wholly to God. I went to the same camp in 1997 and it was another step closer to Him.

God was building my faith at that time through camp, and through the circumstances that brought us to Jerome.

We were in the midst of moving from one house to another in St. Anthony, when Dad got a call from a school in Twin Falls. He was asked to come down and interview for a job. It was strange because Mom and Dad had felt a release to stop searching for a teaching job. Dad hadn't put out applications or contacted anyone. We thought that he was through teaching.

Before Dad went down he told my Grandma (his mother) about this and she was all excited, because Twin Falls is just an hour and a half from where she lives. But Dad cautioned her that we would probably not be moving down there. He said that it doesn't work that way. You interview and then never hear from them again.

Well, it didn't work that way this time. Dad interviewed and got hired on the spot! He was very surprised! That was a work of God!

We bought a house north of Jerome and moved into it in September. God had planned all this out. He had picked this house for us. There wasn't any other houses to rent or buy that would fit us. So He had this planned. His hand was in all this continually.

I was really excited, because I would get to see John after a year and half of not seeing him. He lived in Twin Falls, which is about 20 minutes from Jerome. He and I stepped into a new level of relationship. We weren't able to get together much, so we talked on the phone a lot.

After a few months we started going to Lighthouse A/G, a spirit-filled church in Jerome. And my walk with Christ grew stronger there. At first I was a loner and didn't do much. But God worked on me and I felt a freedom to follow God more.

I made some really good friends. We grew closer to God and each other through the year and a half I was in that church.

A real turning point in my friendships and my walk with God was in July, 1998. My youth group and I went to a A/G camp. I learned how to get closer to God through worship and giving oneself up in worship. God was thawing the lump of ice in my heart and molding it to be more like His.

During this week of spiritual growth, my friends and I were getting to know each other better. Seeing that each of us loved the Lord really helped me to open up.

After that camp experience, I was able to keep the fire alive in my heart. As a result, church was taking on a whole new meaning for me. I was really looking forward to worshiping God and learning from the sermons. I couldn't wait until each Sunday came!

In October, I was blessed with a chance to go to England, with my Grandma. That was a time of staying close to God despite the temptations. And since I am human, I succumbed quite a bit. But each time, God was faithful and forgave me. If you want to, you can read more about that trip in the england page. I was gone for 6 weeks.

During that time I really started to realize how my friends had helped me in my walk with Christ. I was starting to learn how yoke-bearers are a part of a Christian's life. In England I was missing them and I wanted to have them with me.

I got back and all of my friendships began to take on new dimensions. Also my walk with Christ was exploding into new levels of intensity. I saw myself in a new light and began to want to give myself more over to Jesus. It was a weekly time of giving parts of my life to God.

I had my valleys and my high places over the next ten months or so, but I continued to be in love with Christ.

In June of 1999, I was part of a leadership training group. We were studying a curriculum that really helped me start to get into the Word every day. I was enjoying the weekly times of study and fellowship. It was another step closer to God.

The school had cut Dad's position, so he didn't have a job for the next school year. Dad had always been called to the ministry and so he felt that the doors were being opened. He sent a letter to the district supervisor and explained what was happening and that we were available again.

On July 2nd, we received a call for Dad to come preach at a church in Washington. Dad was really excited! We knew that God was starting something.

That night I was staying out at a park with the youth group, and this was stewing in my mind. I kept thinking about the fact that I might be leaving my friends and this church and everything. I was not enjoying the thought of moving up to Wilbur. Of course this was all conjecture but I had a feeling that God was leading us up to Wilbur for a reason.

I was talking to Josh and brought this up. He talked it over with me and helped me at the start of all the preparation and projecting, to realize that it's not my will but God's that matters. That really helped me.

Throughout the next two weeks before we went up to Wilbur to preach, it was always in my mind that I might be leaving. I struggled with it constantly. I had to give it up to God over and over again. What a time of giving my will to God.

On the 16th of July, we drove up to Wilbur. We took a very long route through Montana and northern Idaho. It was neat to see all that country. We arrived and stayed at a motel.

On the 17th, a Saturday, Jan and Don Rolfe came and showed us around town. They showed us houses that were for sale and different things. We went to their house for an open house time to get to know us. We met some of the families that went to New Life Center. All in all it was a fun afternoon and evening.

The next day, Dad preached and they liked him. He sat down with the board and talked with them. As all that was going on, I was starting to feel depressed. I was downstairs in the youth room and really having a time of whining to God and telling him that I really didn't want to come here, and just being a human being. But I finally came to my senses and realized that God might want us here.

On the way home, we all talked it over and felt like if they offered the church to Dad, that we'd take it. That was a hard decision for me to make, but I wanted to follow God.

The first week of August was when we found out. We were accepted and were now a pastoral family. It was pretty cool how my friends and the church were joyful over that.

Over the next few weeks between finding out and leaving, I started to develop a heart for Wilbur. I found myself praying for the town, and for revival to come to it. That was a step in accepting Wilbur as the place God wanted me.

Mom and Dad came up for a house hunting trip that next weekend, but didn't find anything. Meanwhile, Dave and I were having a great time with our friends. It was a time of joy and having a blast!

We received a buyer for our house and started negotiations before we left. The devil really didn't want us to sell that, because we had tons of problems and things that we had to do with it. It was an ongoing headache all of September and October. It was finally signed and sold the second week of October.

Our last Sunday was the 22nd of August and we were sent off with joy and the prayers of our friends. I took tons of pictures and had fun that day. It was hard leaving my friends. I knew that God wanted me in Wilbur, but it was hard saying good-bye.

After getting the U-Haul packed and ready, we left at noon on the 25th and took two days getting up here. We stopped at a motel in Baker City, OR, for the 25th. After having a good rest there, we drove all the way to Wilbur on Thursday.

We stayed with the Rolfes and looked for a house constantly. The doors weren't opening and we were getting very anxious.

I was not enjoying this and I came over to the church one day to send an email, asking for prayer. I sent it and was praying. I opened the Bible to John 13:7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this." I went home and showed it to my parents and it really helped us.

That Thursday we moved into a rental. It's not the best house in the world, but it is a place to stay. God put us here, I don't know why yet, but we shall find out.

When we first moved here, I really missed my friends, and let the self-pity and depression draw me away from God. But then I got back on my feet. I realized that I wasn't going to help God by being down and pitying myself. The first two weeks were the worst. Not only was I pitying myself, but I didn't pray and read the Word.

Having daily devotions and prayer time has really helped me fight the loneliness. I didn't have any friends and it was hard, but God was always by me.

I still have my troubles with loneliness and not reading God's word enough. But I am striving to read it more and to pray more. Not having friends up here, like the ones I had down in Jerome, really helped me in relying on God more and having Him be my best friend.

Curt really helped me by his email correspondence during the times of struggle. I love that guy! I don't know where I would be without his helping words, and cyber hugs. He has been a very good friend. Thanks, Curt for being there for me!

My whole life revolves around Christ. One of the principles I have taken is, WWJD. I used to just use it as a good saying, but now that I am applying it to my everyday life, it is changing my life. I'm also learning to pray without ceasing. Sometimes that is really hard.

One of my favorite verses in the Bible is: "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jerimiah 29:11 NIV. and the verses after it.

This really is something to lean on for my family, 'cause we have struggled a lot. But God has provided every time! It really applies to what we just did. Moving up here to Wilbur, and entering into a new life. It really helped me as we moved.

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