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Hello, this is Pastor David Williams. I want you to know that God loves you. If
you are hurting or lonely, God loves you. If your family won’t speak to you, God
loves you. If you have a habit that you can’t break, God cares and wants to help
you become free. If you are having problems at your job or in your marriage, God
knows just what is going on and he wants to be there for you. Most of all, God wants
you to know that you can be sure you will be in heaven with Him. Why don’t you contact
us right now. It does not matter how far you have gone in sin or how unworthy you
may feel, God says that anyone that comes to Him, he will not cast out. Even more
than that, God promises that He will make you JUST AS IF YOU HAD NEVER SINNED -
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Wednesdays:
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Saturday -
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My Testimony
Salvation and Call to the Ministry
My life verse: Jeremiah 33:3 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1948. We moved to California when I was four years old. I remember it well. I even remember learning to walk as a toddler. My childhood memories are still very vivid in my mind. I was saved at the age of five years old (1953) in a revival meeting in California as a child. While attending a week of meetings as a child, I had never been under conviction of my sin. I was so struck by the power of the preaching and felt that every word was directed to me. I raised my hand during the invitation wanting to be saved. That was on Monday. The same thing happened every day for the whole week. When Friday came, the evangelist talked to my parents, Bob & Jean Williams (Missionaries to England and Africa for over 30 years) and my mother led me to Christ by my bed at home. I may have been young, but my direction changed that day to wanting to please Jesus as the general direction of my life. Later, as a teenager, I was called to preach in a summer camp at Big Bear Lake in California where we were living as Dad pastored the Calvary Bible Baptist Church in Banning, California.
After having attended Baptist Bible College and Tennessee Temple University, I had an experience that I will never forget. I had been reading a book about being crucified with Christ. One day on a street corner, I was so baptized with the Spirit of the Lord, tears and filled with the Love of God, that I knew that the anointing of God had come upon me. God gave me the words and music of the following song that day:
Thank God I am dead; I’m freed from sin,
The Lord Jesus Saved me and He cleansed me within.
He searched ‘til he found me and he gave me life anew,
And the life that He gave me, he’ll give to you.
So go tell your brothers and sisters alike;
Tell them of Jesus and this wonderful life.
Tell them of heaven and glory to come,
Of Christ dead and risen, God’s Holy Son.
Since that day, God has used us to bless many people in many places. Truly God has shown GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS. We have seen hundreds saved. One day while in Hammond, I preached and had over 1000 people raise their hands wanting salvation. God has inspired many Gospel songs over the years which are on our web site. Most recently our ministry has been worldwide in a Christian Web Site entitled Baptist Fellowship Page where I have a music page, a preaching page and a discussion page with many links. One of the things posted on our page is a transcribed copy of Frank Garlock’s “Symphony Of Life Seminar.” Our stand on music has always been away from the CCM Crowd and toward good old conservative Gospel music. One man from the Christian Law Association told me that though he had heard me sing and play the violin, my preaching was better than both. Give God the Glory!
One of the greatest spiritual times in my life was when I met Jeanie, my wife. I
was living in the Tampa Bay Area and attending a local Baptist church where we were
later married. When we dated we would go out and witness and I would preach in Clearwater
to the hippies on the beach at Big Pier 60. The thing that showed me that God was
in our marriage was a book that I had read called The Normal Christian Life, by Watchman
Nee. When I gave the book to Jeanie, it changed her life as it had mine. We had such
a spiritual relationship after that time. Again God was working GREAT AND MIGHTY
THINGS. We had both come to an acceptance of a crucified life as it is taught in
that book. We have never ceased to be amazed at God’s leading in every way even while
we were dating and seeing people saved together before we were married. Our Honeymoon
was a trip to the mission field in Africa where we got to see missions first hand
for the first time. Since that time we have seen God working GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS
in answer to prayer. Propably the highlight of all our lives was when we went to
Hammond, Indiana and graduated from Hyles-
Jeanie's Testimony
Jeanie grew up in a Christian home in Florida, where her family was charter members
of their church and her sister was the pastor’s wife. She was saved at the age of
8 in church and always wanted to be a pastor’s wife or missionary. After being married
at age 19, Jeanie attended Trinity College in Dunedin, Florida for a year and then
attended Hyles-
Jeanie plays the piano as she has since taking piano lessons as a child. She is the only one in her family that can play the piano. She loves to play with her husband as he sings or plays the violin. She also loves to teach ladies or children.
Jeanie’s goal in life is to be the “best keeper at home and to be the best supporter of my husband in what he wants to do in the Lord’s work.
Favorite Verse:
“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” Phil. 3:10.
“My goal is to live each day in the Presence of our Lord and to have nothing between our sweet fellowship together. To really KNOW Him is my desire!”
