My Testimony
by Carolyn Foubert Phippen
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Thank you Jesus for your loving kindness and your renewed Grace each day of my life. Thank-You for your Holy Spirit, Your Heavenly language being able to talk to you in perfect language. To you Father I give Praise and Honor and all the Glory. Amen. I am free, free indeed. I pray , with the help of the Holy Spirit, to guide and direct me as I write this tesimony. Father By the unmeritted Grace of God, the Truth shall make me Free. [John 3:31,32] "If you abide in my word, you are my deciples indeed, And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free". Also,verse36 "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed". Jesus is my most wonderful friend,that I"ll ever really have, because he will never forsake me, or leave me. I was at the end of my life knowing what or who I was. I was living in such darkness, I felt so all alone even though ,I had my family, My husband and children, but thier was something missing in my life I felt like such a failure. The store that I had opened up, Was a failure, deep in debt, I felt sorry for my self, Had no hope.Jesus renewed my life. He made me whole.He gave me a Peace I"d never had before.I became a Child of the King in the fall of 1996, JESUS MADE ME FREE. I was in so much bondage, I was trying to fix me, but the harder I tryed to fix me it just got worse. I thank my Father in heaven for my life. [Psalm126:2-3]"Then our mouth was filled with laughter,And our tougue with singing. Then they said among the nations "The Lord has done great things for them." The Lord has done great things for us, Whereof we are glad. I thank Kenneth Copeland, for the Lord lead me thier thru his T.V. service. I prayed with him each Sun.v I bought his tapes and books. As the word say's Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing and hearing the word of God. I took my tapes to bed with me each night,and each day untill one day it started coming out my mouth. Praise the Lord. I was Born Again. In 1997 I was lead by the Lord, thru the Holy Spirit to my Church. God knew, where to send me. My Paster is Mike Kalstrup. He truely Love's God and is Spirit filled. He is a wonderful blessing in my life. I knew the minute I walked in the church, I was where God wanted me to be. Jesus is there. My Pastors wife's name is Joan. She leads us in song , Praise and Worship. I pray for them each day. We are expanding our church, Planting for the Harvest. Pastor Mike's vision for our church body is to become a part of unsurpassed evangelism in 1999 and the future. Taking our exsample from the Bible, which uses exsamples of physical nature to explain supernatural and prophetic events. Glory to God! [Mark 4: 28-29] "The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head, But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come." Our vision statement is as follow's: Fellowship of Faith Christian Center was raised up by God to reach a lost and dying world for the Glory of Jesus Christ. Our purpose is to deciple men, women and childen to find thier lives in Jesus Christ. Our purpose is to equally intending to equip and empower every believer to reach thier potential in Christ and reprduce themselfs in others. To this end, we purpose to use every means available to proclaim the abundant life of Christ. Our commitment is to invest the existing sanctuary in the "good ground" our Youth Department. They are the future of this Church, and we need to provide them room to expand as well as provide an environment where thier unchurched friends and acquaintances can feel Welcome and fed the word of God. It is also to build a new sanctuary for the adults. If every family were to bring in one new person into the church each year, we would not be able to accommodate the growth. Since 1999 is to be a year of unequaled evangelism for our church, we must prepare to meet the needs of the harvest. Our church is "Fellowship of Faith Christian Center" 18999 Highway 59 PO Box 195 Oakland Iowa 51560 Ph. 712-482-3455. If the Lord leads you in your heart to help in expanding the building of our church and you want to plant seed in good ground send to the address above. Thank you in the name of Jesus All the Praise to the Glory of God. I was born May 13 1945 in the country, in a very small town called Millersburg,Ia. I was born to George and Beatrice Foubert I was over 10 pounds blue eyed and very round. I have 2 sisters and 3 brothers. I lived on a farm untill I was 6,I remember at a small age in the winter time my wanting to sliegh I did'nt know how so I thought I would just do as my brothers did. So I followed them to the top pf this hill they were on and do as they did, as I was flying down this hill following my brothers they went thru the plow of my fathers fram tools so I just did as they did. Only I had my little head way high in the air ,to my surprise I hit the plow blade. Of course it passed me out blank, my brothers thought they killed me, my head was bleeding , I layed there as if I was sleeping They carried me to the house only to be taken to the Dr. and recieve several stichies. I just want to say I never went down that hill like that again. On the farm was the best time in my life as I knew it. We moved to town when I entered the frist grade. As my life went on I was molested at a very young age I will not say who, this changed my life as a young child. Again at the age of 14 I was raped by gun point in those days I could not say anything to any one. No one would have heard me anyway, so my pain was left deep inside of me it caused me to not trust anyone. I was not favored at school or had any friends. I was sent to church as a child went thru sunday school and taught sunday school as I got older. All that time I really never got to know Jesus as my Lord I was looking, but what I was taught did'nt give me the Paece I was serching for. I thought if I could just find Jesus my pain would end. I married at the age of 17 had 4 babies a life full of hard work, bills, could'nt relate to my husband sometimes even my kids. after allmost 20 years we divorced. then I came to the knowledge of who I am in Christ, what a peace I found, all that junk in my past life died, what a loving Father. I thank Jesus every day for all he's done for me in my life. The Joy, love all the fruits of the Spirit that enterd my life It make's you SHOUT to the LORD. Only the love of the FATHER THRU HIS SON JESUS SAVES.. by Carol Phippen |
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