Testimonies From Our Leadership and Volunteers
Austin Haig
I grew up in a household that only went to church on major holidays and never talked about what it really meant outside of that one or two times a year that we would go. I would go to church simply because my mother wanted me to, not because I felt that I should or because I felt called to. Quite frankly I did not like to go to church and that might have come from a place of not wanting to listen to my mother but the feelings still held true. I believe that because of this initial resentment of church, I began to deny and not believe in God, I was an atheist. However, a little over a year ago I began to go to a youth group with my current girlfriend. Again, I only went because I wanted to hangout with my girlfriend and because she wanted me to go with her, not out of my own interest. Continuing to be in the presence of Christ followers and hearing sermons that at the time, I couldn’t care less about, slowly began to soften my hardened heart. One night I broke down crying and told my girlfriend that I did not believe in God, this was all the pent up guilt of going to church and youth group with her even though, in my heart, I did not believe any of it. It was from this moment that I realized that there are certain things that I will not understand and that I just have to trust God and not just what I can see. Soon after this I was saved and began to go all into youth group and church. I wanted to learn more and really know what it meant to be a follower of Jesus Christ. After about a year, I decided it was time to get baptized and even though my path has not been perfect since then, I have continued to trust in the Lord and grow in my faith more than I could have ever imagined. Serving in this ministry has opened my eyes to how truly blessed I am and how humble I should be. Knowing that the things that I own, I do not truly own and I am simply a steward of what God has provided me with. Serving in this ministry has humbled me and changed how I view those around me, entirely. I am so grateful to everyone involved in this ministry and all that we are able to serve.
I was a lost kid who had only found peace and worth through lust, girls, and getting attention that would feed my fleshly desires. With all that satisfaction i feel like I was gaining. I was still so empty deep down and I truly wasn't satisfied at all or else I wouldn't have doing it over and over again. The moment I let God in my life, all these desires suddenly turned into conviction and I have been set free from these sins and constant cycles of temporary satisfaction all from 1 prayer and it had showed me He is always with you no matter what stage of life you are in
Karson Marcum
I was "Saved" when I was 5 years old at a vacation bible school. However, I wasn't raised in the church at all, this led to me being lukewarm the majority of my life. I was hospitalized in 2021 with and abscess in my digestive tract, the days spent in that hospital bed were the darkest in my life. Feeding tube in, two IVs, and multiple drugs in my system none of which were helping, I truly wanted to die. After my second surgery a little old lady walked in and offered to pray for me. At that moment I had a will to fight and it was not my power it was God's. My faith was cemented at that moment but I would still live a life far from God and be caught up in people pleasing. The only thing that that delivered me out of that was Jesus sending me people that invited me and my best friend Austin to serve the homeless in OTR Cincinnati from the first day I was no longer lukewarm I was burning for Jesus. Serving has completely changed my life, so much so the Lord called me into it. The Lord letting me steward this ministry is the blessing of my life and I thank Him for it deeply, there is nothing I want to do for the rest of this life other than this. Just as that old lady walked in that hospital room for me, I want to do that for everyone we encounter.
Collin Lawson
Testimonies From Our
Friends We Serve
Darren"King" Anderson
So it is me and my
brother. We are not on drugs.
We are one step away from getting blessed from God but at the same time you go to all the local churches for They try their very hardest to do what they can but let's just be honest. There's no programs for those who are not on drugs and those who are seeking shelter in some way, shape, or form, but you have a ministry where there's a group of young men who care a lot more about God's people than the elders. I can always go back to the good reference of the scripture where it says the young shall teach the old and the old should teach the young but if you don't believe that it's just words. Let it not be misconscrewed by any stretch of imagination. The love and camaraderie of brother Collins and his cohabitants that inhabitate the world of his ministry. They're doing marvelous things for people like me and my brother. brother. We're extremely grateful that they come out and they serve the community it is about Jesus and nothing else. With that being said, l was kept getting peace. Be still. And know that I am the Lord thy God. I want y'all to know that it doesn't take rocket science out here. It just takes a community and a village of people to love those who don't have. And I say this with the uttermost respect for God. For God I live and for God I die. There's no Greta costs A man come down from heaven Gave his life for you and me. And so he said give.
Unto thy bosom. Well, some people don't know what a bosom is. They get misconstrued. They
interpreted to how they want to interpret it instead of interpreting it for the truth. A resting place. It is not the sanctuary. It ain't the people that make up the church. It's a place where you get recognized as maybe being the possibility of going to.
Right. I love y'all with the love of the Lord and that's all I got for you. God bless.
Testimonies
These are real stories of lives being touched by the love of Jesus—both from those we serve and those being transformed through serving.