Ken's Testimony

I was saved as a boy at age 10.  I went to a Christian junior camp and there I heard the Gospel plainly presented and I asked the Lord to save me while there.  I then came back home and my family was Nazarene.  In a few short years they began to teach me that I could lose that salvation if I sinned too much.  Since I did not know how much sin it took to "lose it" I was always asking the Lord to save me again and again.  Every time though as I look back, when I thought I was getting it back, I did not have that same peace that came over me the night I did get saved.  So, into my early adult life I was going nowhere spiritually because I was always looking back trying to make sure I was saved and never going on for Christ.  While in the Air Force I was attending a Nazarene church that had no ministry to young adults or service members.  I knew I needed Christian fellowship and so I decided to look for another church.  There was not another Nazarene church in the area so I had to find something else.  I had dated for awhile a girl that was independent Baptist.  I decided that I would look for one of those churches.  I decided to visit on a Wednesday night.  The first night I was there the preacher was bringing the last of a series of messages on eternal security.  As I heard him and looked for myself at the verses I knew that since 10 I had been saved.  That started me growing in Christ.  In 1990 we surrendered to full time Christian service,  In 1993 God called me to be a missionary church planter in Uganda, Africa.  We started a church there and in 2000 my wife got breast cancer and through that God changed our field to South Africa where she could be around good medical facilities if needed.  We started one church here and are busy with another missionary establishing our current church, Grace Baptist church in Port Elizabeth.