My name is Terry Grant, and I am presently in the Air Force. I was "born and raised" a Roman Catholic.   I was baptized, and when I was thirteen I was confirmed.

     Church never "did anything" for me.   It was somewhere you went each Sunday for an hour or so.   There was never anything personal in the messages.   I say this now, knowing what I was missing; but then, never knowing anything different, I thought this was the way things between a person and his church should be.   (Note:   "between a person and his church" not "a person and his God" as it should be.)

     After I joined the U. S. Air Force, I didn't attend church for over 2 years.   I was invited to a Baptist service by a friend.    With nothing else to do, I went.   During the sermon I heard something I had never heard before and saw something I hadn't seen before.

     I attended this church for a few months and began to understand what I was missing in my life.   I attended a summer camp and heard some more testimonies.   These made me more troubled, so after the camp was over, I decided to return to the "right" church where I belonged.

     I returned to the Catholic Church for one Mass.   The sermon was that the church shouldn't become straight, but change with the times.    I hadn't been to Mass in two years, and nothing had changed.   You got fifteen minutes of message and forty-five minutes of ceremony.   I could feel that the Catholic Church didn't have what the Baptist Church had - - LIFE.   It was almost a dead church, I don't wish to offend anybody, but this is the way I personally feel.

     I returned to the Baptist Church.   During this time I was starting to see a girl, who was a Baptist.   We went together for a year, and became very serious.   During this time I became more and more troubled as I became aware of my condition and what lay in the future.   But I wasn't really "too bothered," as I had my girl, and that's really all I "needed".   Anyway, when she left me to marry somebody else, my world was completely destroyed.   I didn't know where to turn.   I still was going on, on my own.   No one shared the load I was carrying.

     I started to see another girl within a few months.   She was more worried about my soul than me, and she would talk to me about my problems and spoke to me about her salvation and what it meant to her.   She said all we had to do was trust in the Lord.   For reasons still unknown to me, I still carried the load all by myself.

     While visiting this girl one week, I attended a funeral.   During this time I was becoming more and more troubled about my condition.    Coming home after the week and I was just thinking about the funeral and just what it was all about.   That is all the hope a lost person on this world has, hope that someone would be able to say good words at their funeral, where as a saved person has everlasting life.

     While I was running this over in my mind, a car passed, coming the other way with not enough room to get back in before I got there.   I managed to swerve and make room.   This all happened in less time then it takes to read about it, but anyway I could see myself in a coffin and with no hope.   This is where I turned myself over to the Lord.   (In a way it's odd, because I have had really much closer calls and never thought a thing of it!)

     I have not regretted my turning my life over, not even a little, and I know of not one saved person who has.

     One more thought.   As I have told people before, "In a way, I don't really care if there is a heaven or hell, for the peace I have known here on earth now has made all of my "troubles" as a Christian worth while."

     The above is the testimony of Brother Terry Grant, a member of Cloverdale Baptist Church, as given in his own words at Crystal Springs Bible Camp the summer of 1973.

     Mountainview Baptist Church of Kelso WA hosts a fellowship meeting the second Friday of each month.   This month it fell on Aug. 14, 2009.    Elder Sheffield of First Missionary Baptist Church of Saint Hellens, Oregon preached the message.   Refreshments were served afterward.   A good fellowship was had by all.

     Bible Missionary Baptist Church of Portland, OR will hold a revival meeting September 18-25th at 6:20 PM.   The speaker will be Elder Sheffild pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church, Saint Hellens, OR.   On the evening of the 25th Joseph Blalock is to be ordained by the authority of Bible Missionary Baptist Church of Portland, OR. to preach the Gospel.   We sincerely hope you will make plans to attend this happy occasion.

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Hart Update:
      Here is an update on Johna Hart, wife of Steve Hart. They originally needed to raise $4000 to help with the CT Scan cost. Now they are in need of another $1000 before surgery can go forward. For those of you that helped, THANK YOU! You have been a great encouragement. For those of you that prayed, THANK YOU! The Lord has been good to them and given peace and direction.

     Now we need to continue to pray as they face this treatment and surgery to come. If you can help, please send your gift to:
Pastor Steve Hart
Tabernacle Baptist Church
P.O. Box 187
Century, Fl.   32535
Doug Hammett
Lehigh Valley Baptist Church
Emmaus, Pa 610-965-4700
Steve Hart [mailto:broshart@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 6:23 PM

      We finally had a Dr. read us the CT scan done on my wife last week! The Dr. from a cancer treatment center called and said the scan showed that the tumor is 10 inches by 10 inches by 8 inches deep, which certainly is not 2 foot like we were told last week. He said that it DOES NOT appear to be ovarian, which is good news. This Dr. recommended a super intense program to see if the tumor would shrink in four to six weeks previous to surgery. Good thing because the local hospital called today and wanted ten thousand dollars down previous to scheduling surgery. I told them impossible, they then asked for five thousand, and I said no way. When they asked what I would consider I said one thousand. We are agreeing with the cancer treatment Dr. and waiting a few weeks, but should surgery be necessary it will not be scheduled until I deliver one thousand dollars to the cashier at the hospital....pretty amazing to me!!

      So, just pray over the next few weeks this thing will begin to shrink so we can find out what to do from there.

Bro. Hart

     On the day in 1874 that David Livingstone was buried in Westminster Abbey, the streets of London were lined with thousands seeking to pay respect to the memory of the pioneer missionary.    In the crowd was noticed a poor old man, unkempt, poorly clad, weeping bitterly.   Someone went up and asked him why he was weeping when all were seeking to honor the illustrious dead.   "I'll tell you why," the sad old man replied.    "Davie (Livingstone) and I were born in the same village, brought up in the same day school and Sunday school, worked together at the same loom.   But Davie went THAT way and I went THIS; now he is honored by the nation, and I am neglected, unknown, and dishonored.   I have nothing to look forward to but a drunkard's grave."

~~Voice of Temperance

                                        Agnostics claim they cannot know,
                                             And therefore won't believe,
                                        Yet every moment here below
                                             From The Unknown receive.

                                        The Infidels deny belief
                                             In things they do not know,
                                        Yet they seek shelter and relief
                                             From unseen winds that blow.

                                        The Atheists, more foolish still,
                                             Insist there cannot be
                                        A Mind, a Heart, a Power, a Will
                                             Beyond what they can see.

~ ~ Albert Leonard Murray.

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