Bible Believers Baptist Church - 660 Constitution Ave. Stowe, PA  (610) 323-1410 - church@bbbcpottstown.com

For the first sixteen years of my life I was brought up in the congregation of Jehovah Witnesses. I sought answers as to why I was created and how I should lead my life. I also searched for God to be personal in my life, to be able to walk with him every day.
 
When my grandmother died about two years ago I met Pastor Collingwood at her funeral service. I spoke with him briefly and put the memory of him out of my mind. Soon after, I began spending my weekends up at my Aunt and Uncle’s house. On Sundays we would go to church twice a day. Everyone in my Aunt and Uncle’s family loved going to church which was difficult to understand because I always hated going to boring old JW meetings. But these folks had found God and made him personal to them and they were excited just to hear a little bit about his life. I always wanted this but had never found any path that made this possible.

My cousin Jay told me about how Jesus died for me and how I needed to accept him as my personal saviour. I never gave much thought to it and for a while just rolled my eyes through many services. After a while I decided that I would listen to what was being said from an unbiased point of view. I learned some important things about where my soul would end up if I didn’t get saved. The culmination of this learning was my visit to teen spectacular. I saw the about 2,000 teens all living for Christ and wanted to be counted among them. While I was there a few people had a chance to deal with me about being saved especially Bro. Rusty Morgan. He spoke with me about my situation back home, gave me some books to read and prayed with me about my salvation. I made a promise to myself that I would talk to my mother about being saved when I got home. When I spoke with her I began to realize I could never explain it to her until I got saved.
One day soon after I got back we got into a heated argument. She was more irate then I had ever seen her and I cried harder than I ever had before. I spoke to my cousin Jay over instant messenger and he told me that I needed to get saved and let the lord work things out. I in that instant realized that my problem had always been I was waiting for another person to tell me it was time to get saved when I just needed to reach out and accept Jesus myself. I fell upon my face in my sun room and prayed until my heart was broken, until my soul was satisfied and I had finally found my answer, that Jesus is alive today and very real. I know this because a little piece of him is right down inside of my heart. I want anyone who ever hears this testimony to know that Christ is the only way for your soul to be satisfied and to know that Heaven is your eternal home.

Respectfully yours,
Sean Patrick Mest