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Testimonies of Christians Young, Old and New
David M. Brown
Testimony of Faith
My New Walk with Jesus Christ
My Personal Lord and Savior
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For the longest of time, thirty-six years to be exact, I lived the life of a Conservative Jew. I am a very big supporter of the State of Israel, spent three years living there working the land and learning more about my birth faith. But with all of this, I discovered that something was missing in my life. In the 1990s I lost a brother to cancer and then two years later lost my father to cancer as well. This was a very difficult period for not only me but the rest of my family. Still, with my unending love for God and what He represents, I still continued to worship Him in the way a good Jew would do. However, my prayers seemed to go unanswered and there were answers that I was seeking.
So, in 1999, after working for myself and for a local police department, I decided to call both jobs quits because I had absolutely no life. I was living the life of a single man with no direction and still no answers. So, I did take on another job that seemed to help a little bit. Pay was much less, but where I took the job was the beginning of a new life for me. I took the job of a security officer supervisor at a local retail mall where I met my loving, caring and beautiful wife, Amy.
In May 2001, Amy and I were married at a house that we were renting in Tucker, Georgia and we had a great wedding day. Because of the differences in our faiths (me being Jewish and her Southern Baptist) we could not find a minister or a rabbi to marry us. Luckily, Amy and her family had a friend who was a minister of a small church in North Georgia and he agreed to marry us. He met with us prior to the wedding and we discussed that being of different faiths can be somewhat difficult in a marriage, but nothing bothered me about the differences and Amy and her family felt the same way. We all prayed about our coming marriage and so it was on!
The entire week before our wedding ceremony which would take place in the back yard of our house, the weather for our wedding day was somewhat turning out to be tricky. The local weather people were calling for rain on May 5, 2001 and Amy was nervous. She and her family really were doing a great job getting ready as was I. We had to make a contingency plan to have our wedding inside, but we both knew this was not going to be a successful endeavor. I was thinking about getting a large outdoor tent to get married in, but there were none available.
May 4, 2001 came upon us and this was the day that we were to have our wedding rehearsal. After getting tables and chairs for the wedding ceremony from the mall where I was employed, I got a call from my security director. Along with the weather remaining beautiful to this point, the call made things even more exciting. My security director mentioned to me that a position of Assistant Security Director was opening up at a larger mall in Atlanta and that he recommended me for the position. All I had to do was call my regional manager and set up the interview. The only catch was I had to go that day!
I was with Amy at the house when the call came in. We were scheduled to go have breakfast with out-of-town guests and I mentioned to her about the interview. I called my regional manager after Amy and I decided that this was a blessing in disguise. I agreed. I took a shower, Amy and I then headed over for breakfast with the family. Afterwards, Amy and I headed to the other mall for my interview. I was going to interview with the security director while she did some window shopping.
The interview went great. I did not at first get the offer, but I had a feeling that I was going to get it and that I would get even more news. What this did however stopped Amy and I from getting to go anywhere for our honeymoon. We returned to the house after spending the afternoon at the mall and then went our separate ways. I had to get the house ready as well as mow the back yard. So far; so good. Amy went off to have her hair done.
That night we had our wedding rehearsal. We practiced so much, that my Aunt Zelda from California stated that the actual wedding ceremony would only be a formality that we were already married. It sure felt like it! We all ate and celebrated my brother Martins birthday and then all was done for the day.
The next day was wedding day. The ceremony started at 3pm and it was a beautiful day. No rain; not even a cloud in the sky! Sorry weather people, you did not earn your money for that week. Praise be to God for giving us a great wedding day and night.
Lo and behold, I did get the job at the bigger mall which came with more pay and more responsibility. Things were really going great for Amy and me, yet something terrible was waiting in the wings and this was going to have an effect on the job at the mall among other things. September 11, 2001 became a new day of infamy; the day that New York, Washington, D.C. and Shanksville, Pennsylvania were attacked by terrorists causing great death and destruction. This also changed security measures at the malls as well.
That Day in September 2001 really changed the United States as well as the world over as well as my life and Amys. Things were still going well, yet, with even making more money, we were putting a great deal of it into a house that we wished we could eventually own but our landlord did not want to give it up as a rental. Amy and I were getting ourselves deeper and deeper into debt and this was something I was hoping to avoid. Yet, I believed that my wife deserved anything she wanted within reason and then some.
Long story short, 2002 was to be the last full year we would be in the house together. We had to find a way to get out of debt or at least pay it down as much as we could so that we could find another house. I was now working at another mall as a housekeeping manager, something I really did not want to do but the pay was decent and the hours were fantastic.
At the end of 2002, in December to be exact, my life was going to change both physically and spiritually and this was something that I was looking forward to. Amy and I and her mother and brother and his wife all attended a special Christmas event at a local church called Mt. Carmel Christian Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia. It was called the Living Christmas Tree and all that I can say is this: It was powerful, it had deep meaning for those of the Christian faith and it brought tears to my eyes, literally. After that event, I found myself going to the same church for services on Sunday with my wife and mother-in-law.
In February 2003, Amy and I decided because of our debt and the inability to get out of it in a timely fashion, we would move out of the house. She was going to live with her parents because they really needed help as her father was beginning to decline in health. I moved in with my mother as she needed my help financially and her health was not all that great either. This did not mean Amy and I were separating only that we needed to help our families and that it could help us get out of debt and then find another house for us to live in.
In March 2003, my life took a new turn. I found that my present life which was going absolutely nowhere would soon change and that my body would change as well. My faith was changing and this is something that I was not going to stop. On March 6, 2003, at a Sunday service at Mt. Carmel Christian Church and after talking to the pastor of the church, Randy Snyder, I decided that I wanted to accept Jesus Christ to be my Personal Lord and Savior. That was an exciting day. I remember taking my seat with my family and catching Randy out of the corner of my eye. He gave me a thumbs up which I returned. We went through the service and I found myself sweating and extremely excited about what was to take place. When the call for the invitation came, I took the walk down the aisle to the front of the congregation.
Randy Snyder asked me the important questions about if I agreed that Jesus Christ was my Personal Lord and Savior and I answered, YES! He asked me if I believed that He was the Messiah and I answered, YES! Then came my Baptism. I took the walk up the stairwell leading to the Baptismal Pool and still sweating and my heart pounding, I was smiling. I changed and put my robe on and met Randy in the Baptismal Pool. He performed the service and as I was placed under the water and then raised again, I knew that I had done the right thing. My heart was still and my nervousness was gone. I was now in a new body and my life was renewed. I did know this; no one said that it was going to be easy. It has not been easy, but one thing is for sure, becoming a Christian finds new friends and a new loving family. This is not to say that I dont love my family, but Jesus comes first and then all else comes second. My wife understands this as do my friends. They went through the same thing as I did and they are the most loving people you will ever get to meet.
One of the greatest things besides my loving wife is my great friendship and my brotherhood with my co-founder in Mission Lighthouse Ministry, Alexander Aleman. He is younger than I but he so much mature for his age. He is full of life and he is a loving husband and a great father to his two girls Christina and Chloe. He has a great brother, Braulio Miguel and a mother, Margarita who is a very loving individual as well.
Alexander is a great Christian. He is a caring individual and does everything he can to help me when I need it through his inspiration, his prayer and being such a great friend. I have told him time and time again that I do not wish that our friendship would falter. I also told him that I understand the power of Satan and that he alone would do what he could to rip the inner seams of our friendship apart and that I would not let that happen. I would also not let that happen to my marriage to Amy as I love her deeply.
So, with Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Messiah and Father God on my side, I do know that my prayers and my questions are getting answered. I have a great home church in Mount Carmel and I want to do everything and anything possible to witness to those who have not yet come to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and to recognize that He is the Messiah. I challenge my Jewish brethren to come to understand what it is that I have done and to accept the fact that the New Testament is the Word of God and that it makes things all that more complete.
Thank you for allowing me to provide my testimony and for those who have come to accept Jesus Christ in the past and the present and are still looking for answers to visit this website often as more and more testimonies will be coming forth.
In Jesus Christ I remain forever in His Service,
December 6, 2009
Co-Founder Mission Lighthouse Ministry
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