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POSTED TESTIMONIES

Charlene Wood of Burgaw Holiness
Liz Brewster of Hosanna Fellowship Church
Tara Weyant
The Wiley Davis Story - From The Messenger, March 2007 by Dock Hobbs
The Third Day - From The Messenger, March 2007 Issue, by Dorothy Smith
My Pentecostal Faith Carries Me Through - By Annie Ruth Tew - From The Messenger, Dec 06
Rev. Ted Mercer, Senior Pastor of Burgaw Holiness PFWB Church -8/06
Rev. Ted Mercer, Senior Pastor of Burgaw Holiness PFWB Church - 11/05
Tammy Winslett
Rev. Ted Mercer, Senior Pastor of Burgaw Holiness Church - June 04
A Daughters Testimony on her Fathers Path to God
Congregational Church - Visit from Evangelist Milton Martin Jr.
Jim, A Member of Christian Life Fellowship Church, and still in Iraq
Rev. Ted Mercer, Senior Pastor of Burgaw Holiness Church - July 03

Charlene Wood of Burgaw Holiness

Hello out there! My name is Charlene Wood. I am new member of Burgaw Holiness PFWB church. I join May 30, 2010. I was lead to Burgaw on Feb 14, 2010 by the Holy Spirit. I have found my home away from home. The Holy Spirit is working in my life in an awesome way. Burgaw Holiness Church has one of the most spiritual mission store that I have a desire to go and work and fellowship with God's people. I really thank God has really put me in Burgaw for a reason. I am being spiritually fed by the Holy Spirit in a mighty way. I know God has got mighty works for me to do. I'm just waiting on God to do his work in me. I want to be obedient  to His Spirit. Wherever God sends me, I'm willing to go. The Holy Spirit is guiding me to Burgaw in Pender County for a reason. Don't know what its going to be but i have faith to believe God is in control. Just waiting on the Holy Spirit to send me wherever I need to be.i Thank God for what He's doing in my life and where He is going to lead me. The Holy Spirit has taught me that every soul is suppose to be treated equal doesn't matter color, race. We are all created in gods image.

God Bless Everyone that reads this and I Love you all. Gods Love is a mighty Love and i love Him With all my heart

Charlene Wood

 

Tara Weyant

I have been going to CYC for 3 yrs. now. I think it is the best camp you could ever send your child to. I am now 15 yrs. old. I went this year. The theme was "In Christ Living Your Purpose". This year I felt I was closer to the campers than any other year. Some girls in my cabin lost a friend of their's. Her name was Summer. I fit in the category with them because in January of this year I lost a good friend of mine. So if Nikki, Amber, Jyda, Becki, Mary, or Anthony read this I want them to know how much I love them and how close they are to me.

The Wiley Davis Story - From The Messenger, March 2007 by Dock Hobbs

For some months in 1992 Mr. Wiley Davis experienced physical problems that indicated he might have colon cancer. In December 1992 his worst fears were confirmed. Not only did he have colon cancer, but it had greatly advanced. He was told he had only eight months to live. Immediately he shared with his family and church family his dire situation. A special time of prayer was called by the pastor, and his church family gathered around him in believing faith and prayer was made to the Lord on Wiley’s behalf. As everyone prayed God moved in a special way. Brother Wiley experienced a move of God and testified that the Lord spoke to him and told him everything was going to be alright. Other people in the church also experienced a word from the Lord. They testified that the Lord had also told them Wiley was going to be alright. God’s word and others’ testimony was additional confirmation that greatly encouraged Brother Davis. In April 1993, on the advice of his doctors at Duke Medical Center, Brother Wiley went through eight weeks of pre-surgical treatments to shrink the massive tumor. These treatments were every day, so he and his wife Beulah lived in the Durham area for two months. They were visited by many of their friends from the Free Chapel Church during the treatment and were encouraged by their visits and the visits of their pastor. In June 1993 surgery was completed in which the cancer was removed. Still, the doctors were very concerned about a long term prognosis. Each visit with the doctors for months and years to come where filled with wonder and exhilaration. Brother Wiley Davis has now been cancer free for nearly fifteen years. He will soon return for his annual visit to Duke Medical Center. In Wiley’s own words, “I have been cancer free every since and I give the Lord the praise for what He has done.” Not only does Wiley praise the Lord for what He has done but for what the good Lord continues to do for him. The Bible says God is good and the Davis family is witness to the goodness of God in their lives. Wiley and Beulah Davis are members of Free Chapel PFWB Church near Goldsboro, N.C. Their pastor is Reverend Mike Williams.

By Dock Hobbs, from The Messenger, March 2007 Issue

The Third Day - From The Messenger, March 2007 Issue, by Dorothy Smith

The last thing I remember on December 16, 1979 was lying on my sofa late one afternoon because I had a terrible headache, a headache unlike any I recall. I lay there all night. The next morning my mother came to get me to go Christmas shopping but couldn’t get me to the door. She finally got help to get to me. I was almost unrecognizable because I was so swollen, had turned yellow, and was bruised. I was later told that I was drowning in my own blood.

I was rushed to Kinston Memorial Hospital where they wanted to treat me for a drug overdose. My family insisted that I be transferred to Pitt Memorial Hospital. The doctors at Pitt Memorial were puzzled by my condition and ran many tests to determine what was going on. They tested me for a drug overdose, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Leukemia but everything came back negative. While the tests were being carried out they were giving me blood transfusions.

The doctors accidentally hit upon something while they were running tests: Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Pupura (TTP). My platelets were being destroyed. I was the first case in the United States. It was broadcast on television. They continued with the blood transfusions
until I was given over thirty. Somewhere along the way I lapsed into a coma. I did not know what was going on. All the while family, friends, churches, and anyone my family could contact were praying for me. Our General Superintendent Preston Heath was pastoring in Greenville at this time and I am told he came by every day to pray for me and encourage my family. Rev. Gene Turner came by on several occasions as well as many other people.

The doctors told my family there was no hope for me because I had been in a coma almost a month. They said if I lived I would never be anything but a vegetable. While everyone was praying I began to drift in and out of the coma. I could hear voices but they seemed so far away. I was in no pain at any time, but I lapsed back into a coma. My family was told that I was clinically dead, yet no one was giving up hope simply because of their faith in Jesus Christ.

I remember from the Bible that Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, Lazarus was in the tomb for three days, and Jesus was in the tomb for three days and on the third day He arose.

On the third day after my doctors said I was clinically dead someone saw me move my big toe. I began to come around and improve so fast that it amazed my doctors. My main doctor, Dr. Chambers, was a professing Christian and told everyone it was nothing any of them had done but it all came from a higher power. I was left with memory loss and partial paralysis on my right side. I could not talk, walk, or feed myself.

God healed me of the blood disease and placed me where I had the help I needed for my physical needs. You may ask why God didn’t heal me of everything. I feel that God was letting me know that I couldn’t get along without Him in my life. This was the beginning of sharing my healing testimony of the rare blood disease that I had.

God is blessing and using me today. On October 31st, 2006 I had Chiari Malformation Decompression and C-1 Laminectomy. That was taking out part of the bottom of my skull and the first vertebrae of my neck. God is helping me recover from that surgery. God allows people to be tested and tried today as He did Job in the bible. I can relate very well to Job.

God heals today. He brought me back on the third day, and ever since that day life has new meaning for me. I know God loves me and I love Him.

-by Dorothy Smith, From The Messenger, March 2007 Issue

My Pentecostal Faith Carries Me Through
- By Annie Ruth Tew - From The Messenger, December 2006 Issue

To be a member of the Pentecostal faith is to be a person blessed beyond measure. I am that person. I am appreciative, thankful, and privileged to have received such a rich heritage of faith from my parents and grandparents. They were both members of the Pentecostal faith (Pentecostal Free Will Baptist). I know for sure that being born into and reared in the Pentecostal faith has had a profound influence in my life. My mother had a great influence in my life. I grew up listening to her praying by her bedside every night before she retired for the evening. That is a very effective and precious memory.

I accepted Christ when I was 12 years old during a revival at Stoney Run PFWB Church in Dunn, North Carolina. This was the most important decision of my life. It was there that I first experienced the Pentecostal blessing of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. So you see why that church holds a special place in my heart. Those experiences at such an early age helped me tremendously in early adolescence, and have held strong through the present time.

I have never known any other faith, but I can certainly attest to the fact that my faith has met all my needs and I am perfectly satisfied, content, and happy in my journey with Christ. When you know Him in His fullness and you walk in His Spirit daily, there is no sweeter place one could be. I know I am not always there, but I thank Him that He made it possible to come into His presence at anytime.

My faith has carried me through many situations, some good and some not so good; some joyous and some sad. I am sure that the not so good times have been for my good. The not so good times are character building. Sometimes this hurts, but it strengthened my faith and trust in God. I am challenged many times by the stillness of the night, but in the silence comes an anointing and power.

To me, the most rewarding part of the Pentecostal faith is knowing that God’s power is so strong and mighty. And just think . . . He makes the same power available to you and me! The more intimate I become with God the more He reveals Himself. I find myself in His presence and His presence gives me peace and joy . . . joy unspeakable and full of glory!

My Pentecostal faith has had a great impact in my life. It has taught me how important it is to make right choices and how the choices you make affect your life and the lives of others around you. My faith has made me aware that God has a plan for every person He has created, and that means He has a plan for me. I have prayed continuously for God to direct my steps in the path He would have me go. I know He has done that for me and answered my prayer. Things pretty much have fallen in place for me, and I know this is not luck or by chance. I am not boasting or bragging; I give God the credit because I know He is looking out for me as He promised. That is a great feeling!

After graduating from high school, God helped me to make the second most important decision of my life. I married my high school sweetheart Mack Reid Tew! This was the second best thing I ever did! We moved to Raleigh, North Carolina and had a wonderful, blissful marriage for 31 years. Over the years four precious sons were born into our family.

Then one day so unexpectedly God called my husband, my sons’ father, home to heaven to be with Him. This changed our lives forever. It was the darkest day of my life. I was in shock and completely devastated to say the least. But immediately I knew one thing that I had not lost, and that was Jesus.

I thank God that He can make good come from a bad situation. A blessing can come from loss and pain. I had never felt so close to Jesus in all my life as I did during this time. It felt as if He gathered me in His arms just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. This is where I found protection and comfort. I am a witness that God’s Word is true. God is near the broken hearted (Psalm 34:18). He carried me during this time, because He knew I could not bear the burden myself.

Out of this trial God brought me to a higher level of trust. I learned to trust God like I never had before. He spoke to my heart and told me to just trust Him. I did that to the best of my ability. He impressed such a deep trust in my spirit it was as if God was right by my side all the time. This helped me so much during that time of grief.

The feeling is so amazing. It’s just indescribable. Only the Comforter knows this feeling. Oh, what a comfort is the Holy Spirit! This is another benefit of the Pentecostal faith. Thank God for Pentecostal faith!

Although I was not aware, providence was working for me all the time. God knows our destiny so He had prepared me for the secular work force and even provided the perfect job. I had been a homemaker all my married life. A few years prior to my husband passing, we needed a part-time secretary at our church, which is North Haven PFWB Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. It seemed that everyone who was interviewed for the position did not work out for some reason. My youngest son had just started the first grade and I desperately needed something to do, so I volunteered until the right person came along.

Well, you can imagine how that turned out! I got stuck, but that was all right with me. I was enjoying a different kind of work, but I soon found that I needed to brush up on my typing skills that had been dormant for so long. I enrolled at a local college for that reason only, but I ended up completing two years and graduated from Hardbarger Jr. College.

God knew I would need a good job with two boys left at home to rear and educate. When that time came, I applied for a position at Meredith College, in Raleigh, North Carolina and was hired within one week.

This was a great work experience for me. I couldn’t have asked for anything better. I worked 10 years in the Office of the Dean of Students. I learned early on that the Dean was the widow of a Baptist Minister who was killed in an auto accident. Like myself, she has four children. We had much in common and could relate to each other very well. Again, I was in the right place at the right time. When the Dean retired, I worked a couple years longer, and then I decided to retire.

I stayed home a year or so and what do you know, yes, I wanted to go back to work. But now I’m an empty nester, and I only want to work part-time. God did it again; He gave me another fabulous job at Trinity Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. I only work four mornings each week. This gives me the best of both worlds. God keeps His promises. He is my husbandman, my protector, and my provider.

A strong faith has never been needed more than it is in the world today. We live in such a chaotic, stressed, and violent world. We must have a faith that is authoritative and powerful. We need the Holy Spirit working in the lives of men, women, boys and girls. If this amazing and majestic power was released in all Christians, can you imagine what could be accomplished in our world today?

My desire for my own life is to be obedient and faithful to God’s Word. I want to follow His plan for my life, and to please Him in everything I do. Above all I want Jesus to get all the praise and glory!

- By Annie Ruth Tew - From The Messenger, December 2006 Issue

Rev. Ted Mercer, Senior Pastor of Burgaw Holiness Church - 11/05

Tammy Winslett

My name is Tammy Winslett. In 1997 I found God and he filled me with his Spirit. Learning and growing closer to God he blessed me in a way I never thought possible. God has used me to write his word in Poetry. I know for a fact that this was God and not me. I have never wrote any poems in my life.

Every poem is every bit the Word of God. My Poetry soon became blessed by being published in a book, by Publish America. It is called "God's Eternal Love Inspirational Christian Poetry". I am pleased to share one of these poems with you. As God blessed me I hope it blesses you.

PENTECOST

This was truly prophesied by the prophet Joel
That God would pour out his Spirit upon every living soul.
With stammering lips and another tongue, read Isaiah 28:11
God shall speak unto his people, which is forever settled in heaven.
Speaking in another tongue is something you will do
And you will receive power after the Holy Ghost comes upon you.
On the day of Pentecost, from heaven it did come
They were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues.
Devoted men everywhere, were amazed at what they had seen
They spoke out loud to one another: Asking, "What does this mean"?
Peter stood up with the eleven; testified to every soul
As he said, "This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel"
When hearts were pricked, they asked how to be saved
Peter then gave the instructions in Acts 2:38.
When you receive the Holy Ghost from heaven it will come
Like as a rushing mighty wind and you will speak in tongues.
The gift of the Holy Ghost is a promise unto you
For as many as the Lord shall call and unto your children too.
I once was in darkness, but now I can see
Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?

Rev. Ted Mercer, Senior Pastor of Burgaw Holiness Church- June 04

I would like to thank God for the service we had Sunday, June 13th with the Rev. Charles Heath. This day at the Burgaw Holiness Church was set aside for Deacon Appreciation Day and we also ordained our five deacons. It was a good service and the house was full. We had a lot of visitors and Brother Charles preached a good message. Then we had lunch for them to let them know that we are thankful for the work that they do. I am proud of our Deacons at the Burgaw PFWB Church. I have been back at this church since July of 2002 and they work with me the best to help our church to go forward. Thank God for them. Our Deacons are Charles Batton Vice, Earl Boyette, Charles Lee, Pete Padgett, and one lady Deacon Georgia Lanier. As their pastor I am Proud of them all. They have the vision to see our Church go forward. God bless you all!

A Daughters Testimony on her Fathers Path to God

My Dad and I have never really had a good relationship, because he wasn't a Christian.  It made things really hard on me and I prayed every night he would get saved.   My dad did very bad things.  He was a crack head and drank liquor a lot.  It made me really upset to see him like that because he got mean.  Not physically, but with words.  One night during my freshman year of high school I went to stay with my dad for a weekend and everything was okay at first. Some of his friends came over one night and they started doing drugs and drinking alcohol.  Although they didn't do it in front of me I could still smell it.  Well, apparently he didn't know I knew all the things he had done because that night when his friends left I asked him how much crack he had been smoking and he blew up in my face.  I ran to the bathroom and started crying and praying and he came in there to apologize.  I was crying so hard I couldn't even look at him and he stood me up and almost punched me and then stopped before he got to my face and punched the wall.  He kicked me out in the cold streets while I waited for my mom to pick me up.  Just last year though, he got saved and stopped everything.  And I praise God to this day that he forgave him and helped him see what he was doing.  Thank you Jesus.  I love you!!!

Congregational Church - Visit from Evangelist Milton Martin Jr.

I would just like to thank the Lord for the revival he is sending us here in Chesapeake, VA.  Congregational church had Evangelist Milton Martin Jr. in for a week revival, which ended up be extended for 4 more services. Many miracles took place. From deaf ears and blind eyes being healed to confirmations of prophecy that only individuals knew. I have never seen the miracles like this before. We had several get filled with the Holy Ghost and at least 12 got saved and 21 people got baptized. Our people have really been revived and are continuing in revival. We are in Spiritual Renewal. We had the people from Faith Temple, Higher Life, and other churches in the area.  They came and got their blessings and took the revival spirit back to their churches.

IF YOU WANT TO GET THIS ANNOINTED MINISTRY IN YOUR CHURCH CALL, EVANGELIST MILTON MARTIN JR. AT (770) 531-7432 AND YOU CAN CHECK IT OUT ON THE WEB WWW.MMJM.ORG.

Jim, a member of Christian Life Fellowship, who is still in Iraq

Dear Christian Life Fellowship,

I should have written you sooner. I am doing fine. Thank you for all your prayers. Krista told me you were praying for me and all my marines. We are returning home with all of our men.   No one was killed, however we had about 30 wounded (15 were from my company).   If you could have seen what they went through you would know that it was only by the grace of God that no one was killed.  I told everyone that I had a shield of protection around me, because where ever I went on the battlefield it seemed as if a calm would come. Your prayers were answered. I have not been in fear for my life, but I was afraid of not doing my job correctly.  That fear was caused by my lack of dependence on God.  I want to tell you that God is there even when you can't feel Him and even when you ignore Him. As usual I learned more about my relationship with God under stressful conditions and through His grace and mercy He has kept me.   I would gladly have given my life for my country and for all of you, but I am glad and thankful that I am returning home to all of you.   I have been blessed in many ways and being in a place like this only emphasizes that.   I am so proud of my godly wife and family. Their struggles and sacrifice have been just as great and important as mine. Thank you for keeping them in your prayers also.  I will be home before the 4th of July. I would like to thank all those who sent me letters and I apologize for not answering them. Please forgive me and believe me when I say, I appreciate every one of you.

Love, Jim

Rev. Ted Mercer, Senior Pastor of Burgaw Holiness Church

I am so thankful for God moving in our church at the Burgaw Holiness Church in Burgaw. God has been good to us. I came back to Burgaw in July of last year to fill in on Wed. nights, but God had other plans and I became their pastor once again and God has given us 70 souls in little over a year, Praise be to God! When I came back they had been through a split and their were about 19 people here, but now we are back up to about 70-85 people on Sunday morning, and running into 40-50 people on the night services... Once again - PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ALL HE IS DOING HERE AT BURGAW! We just had a ground breaking service Sunday for a new Family Life Center for community and for our youth. We have had a broken arm healed here at Burgaw and other things take place also. We have a brother in the church by the name of Jimmy Rivenbark that the doctors said would not live over 3 weeks, but it has been over 1 year now and he is still here today.