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Comment by William Corcoran on April 21, 2012 at 7:47am

William   Corcoran   PERSONAL   Testimony                                                                      From  10  years  of  being  homeless.                                                                                      I  started   being  abuseive   to  my  family  after  long  time  of  marriage   and  we  separated  and  I  lived  in  homeless  shelter  on   and   for  serveral  years  and   lived  on  the  street  slept  underneth  stairs  of  parking  deck   where  I  would   come  out   in  the  morning  and   face  a  another  day  to  live  thankful   I  never  got  caught  or  I  be  Trespassing.   I  became   fustrated   when   I   could   not  support  my  family  like  a  father  should  and  I   took  it  out   on   my  family   and    my  wife  threw  me  out.   I   could   not  find  work   or   support   them   I   did  not  now  were  to  turn  to  or  get  cleaned  up   and  did  not   eat   or  drink   and  one  day  I  gave  up  on  life   and  was  at  my  end   of  my  road   so  so  after   long  time   we  got  back  together  but  was  not  like  when   I  first   was  married   I  decided    to   commit   adultery   and  we  split  up .    I   went  back  to  the  Rescue   Mission   where  I  got  on  there   program   and  stay  there   for  couple  month  and  then  one  night  at  service   a   man  and  his  wife   asked  if  anyone  would  like  to  recive   Jesus  as  there  personal  sviour  and   I  gave   my  life  to  God  for  the  first  time   I  recive  him  in  my  heart  in  Dec   31   2004   at   8:30  pm   and  thats   when  my  life  changed  I  started  going  to  church  and  reading  the  Bible  daily  and  went  back  to  church .    I  am   back  with  my  family  and  we   were  blessed  with  a  home   were  our  son  can  play  in  yard  and  have  normal  life  like  child  should  have.    We  are  going  on  22  years   of  marriage   this  Oct   20  2012  Thank  God  for  saving  me  from  the  mess  was  in  and  from  the  worldly   things.  

                                                                   

Comment by Melvin Malone on January 14, 2012 at 8:44pm

Would like to share my brother in laws personal testimony.

 

James Hogancamp Personal Testimony

A personal testimony written by James Hogancamp
From a 23 year drug addiction to a life with Christ
I started using drugs in the 7th grade. Starting out with pot which I was addicted to since my first high, by high school I was doing cocaine, acid, hash, weed, and drinking heavy. Getting high is what I was living for. Involved in a life of crime I went through a lot of trouble at school finally quitting in the 10th grade before they could kick me out. My family was a really good family. My mother a true Christian, who did all she could to get me to do right. Thank God for her prayers all through my life. My father, a hard worker, and provided well for our family. All my sisters were doing well, but here I was addicted to any thing that made me feel good----sex, drugs, drinking, selling drugs, taking things that didn't belong to me. By 19, I had got married because she was pregnant. So after moving out from my family my life style really got worse. I stayed in trouble with the law and my wife was tired of all the troubles and wanted me to stop. However I was already living to get high and that was my only goal. A move from Illinois to Tennessee was what I thought might help me and my wife because we didn't know anyone in Tennessee, but it didn't stop me. It just led to many trips to Illinois and before long I was in divorce. I was heavy involved in drugs in Tennessee before long. Soon I had got a DUI in Kentucky and drug charges which I got out of too easy. After making bond I got another DUI and drug charges in Tennessee. And soon got another charge in Kentucky again for the same thing and out of all I got out too easy. By now I was using more cocaine than I was selling. Going in the hole and needing another high I stole $23,000.00 from a store and took off to get high. The law was after me. After a couple of weeks and getting down to the last $7,000.00 I needed to go and buy more drugs. As I got to the place the guy I was buying from, the police came in to bust him and caught me while there, so off to jail I go. And again got another break. After 120 days, I was released on house arrest. I never stopped getting high though even in jail. About a month after getting out I ripped off a drug dealer and left town again. Soon I ran out of money and went back to Tennessee where I did some praying before turning myself in, but God knew I wasn't sincere. I took drugs in the jail when I turned myself in but lied to my family trying to make them think I had changed. Again I got out and went through a couple of rehabs and got married again. No matter what I done though in life I still kept getting high. I had many breaks on house arrest as long as I was paying money. During this period is when I was introduced to meth and this drug kept me up all the time. I soon went through another divorce and got in more trouble with the law. I kept on the move as much as possible. I soon moved to Mississippi and left there to go back to Illinois where I was raised. I had my own body shop and all the drugs I wanted and I thought life was going really good. I began selling heroin, cocaine, meth, and weed by the pounds. Again much partying led to more trouble with the law and I finally had to sign the shop back over to the man I was buying it from. I went to Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi causing trouble. In Mississippi, I was living on a house boat and I got involved in killing two people over drugs. Not willing to face these charges, I began to run again. At this time I had been on drugs for 23 years and sure wasn't going to go a day without them. I have left much out of this, a lot of trouble, and so many times I should have been dead. I stole money from my mother. During this process I lost my father and had a close friend killed. My life consisted of sex, drugs, drinking, and many good jobs that I let go. However, I have told you enough bad to know what I was about. Now is the time to tell you the most amazing part of my life. First of all, Thank God for a praying mother and sisters. When these killings went down my thoughts were I could get to Southern Illinois and sell enough meth to get me out of the country, but my plans didn't go as I had intended them to. I ended up in Heyworth, Illinois on my knees, crying out to God to forgive me and to help me to change my ways. At first I didn't feel anything and the devil kept saying it's too late and that I had done too much and that God didn't love me. But that made me cry out all the more. Two of my sisters were there with me and one of them came over to give me a hug. As she touched me, God touched both of us. I went one way a shouting and she went the other way a shouting. The Spirit of the Lord God was
upon me. When I finally realized what I was saying I was yelling "God is Real". I felt a great burden lifted. I felt clean. I felt love. I felt peace. I felt great joy. The only thing on my mind was to be baptized in Jesus Name. Before the preacher had the tank full, my sister and I both were baptized in the Name of Jesus. We then prayed some more and God touched me again. That very day God took my drug craving away and give me a craving for His word. He also gave me a desire to share with others that there is hope and help. I went from running from the law that day to turning myself in. God has given me a new life. He has showed mercy upon me by allowing me to experience the new birth experience of water and spirit being baptized in Jesus Name and receiving the Holy Ghost thru the power of Jesus Christ. This power helps me to overcome the things of this world. Everything about me has changed. II Corinthians 5:17 says "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new". When I was born again I no longer wanted the things I used to want. I no longer did the things I used to do. I am indeed a new creature. By
staying in the word of God, praying, and fasting I find myself growing closer to God each day. The more I have Jesus in my life the more I want of Him. I have tried everything this world has to offer but it all failed. Jesus Christ lifted me up so much greater than anything this world has had to offer and filled me with love, happiness, peace. This is what I want to share with everyone. Jesus Christ has set me free. I am a child of His and this gives me the rights to the great inheritance of heaven being my home forever more. It set me free from the bondage of sin that was dragging me to hell. I may be in prison bound by the law but I am freed by Calvary.  Praise God the judge gave me a life sentence but Jesus has given me life more abundantly. I am born again and am a heaven bound believer. It has been six years now being locked up but I have to tell you I count it a joy to have the time I have each day to study and pray and the great chance to tell many about Jesus. I have learned to live today for Jesus by doing His will, obeying His word. I can lay down in any part of any prison and have peace. I can sleep like a baby knowing Jesus is with me and will never leave me nor forsake me. Without a doubt in my mind if I should die or Jesus should come tonight, to heaven I would go. Glory be to God! So I tell you God can take the drug addict and make a preacher. He can take hate and turn it into love.  Remember the devil is a liar and the father of all lies. Jesus is our Savior. Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened.

                                                James Edwin Hogancamp 109079

MCCF 833 West St D-1-106

Holly Springs, MS 38635-1412

email mel536@yahoo.com

Bro. James is serving a life sentence in Holly Springs, Ms. he has a call of God on his life to preach and to teach Bible Studies to the other inmates and he prays that his testimony might help others.
God Bless,

Bro. Melvin Malone

Comment by Chaplain Allen Tanner on October 20, 2011 at 11:30am

Hello Everyone,

 

Just thought I would share my testimony in hopes that it would encourage someone. Please remember that even in the most desperate of times, always look for the best in others and never give up on anyone, because God Never Does!! Feel free to share this testimony with those you feel it may help!

 

Blessings,

Chaplain Allen Tanner

TESTIMONY

Chaplain Allen J. Tanner©

 

 

 If just one person would have paid attention to me, If just one person would have believed in me or listened to me in my childhood years and years as a young adult would have turned out completely differently. Of course I would not be here tonight sharing the life changing power of God.

 

If you don’t remember anything else I say tonight remember this, Do Not Ever Stop Believing In The Ability Of A Person To Change, Do Not Ever Stop Believing In Ability Of A Person To Hold On, Persevere, and Overcome!  With God “All Things Are Possible, Amen!”

 

 After being abandoned as an infant, I spent the first two years of my life in an orphanage raised by nuns. At the age two I was placed into a very dysfunctional family. I was physically, verbally, emotionally, and sexually abused as a child. Violence, anger and hatred, became what I believed to be a normal way of life. I was raised to hate my biological father who abandoned me as an infant and had pledged to kill him should I ever meet him. I was consistently told that I would never amount to anything in my life and would end up in prison just like my real father!

 

At age thirteen, my adopted mother held me by the throat, held a butcher knife to my chest and threatened to kill me. I remember looking into her cold, empty eyes, and saying, “Go Ahead Life Isn’t Worth Living Anyway!!”

 

 

At that point I had enough; I became a runaway, living on the streets, never to return home again. On the streets, I realized I was a quick learner, and had the uncanny ability to survive, although I am not proud of many of the things I did to survive.

 

This lifestyle took me down a series of long dark roads that stole from me the ability to understand who I really was!

 Soon I graduated from the streets, into being employed in various “executive positions,” within organized crime families! As this lifestyle progressed, so did my obsession with “wanting to be somebody.” Power, wealth, and material things became my total objectives in life!

 

My crimes eventually caught up with me and I was arrested and placed in jail. However my connections with organized crime families allowed me to escape from jail! This time I would be more careful not to get caught!

 

 However, as intelligent as I believed I was, I overlooked one important event before my escape from jail. During my short time behind bars a group of men from Gideon’s distributed bibles on a weekly basis. I received one of those bibles. As I read that bible to past the time before my escape. I really didn’t find it very interesting and had a hard time understanding how anyone could believe how these words had the ability to change anyone’s life? Little did I know that, “God’s Word Does Not Return Void!!” Amen

 

 

For the next three years my crime spree took me across the United States and several other countries. To me I “Was Really Somebody!” I was wanted in five states and three countries, and had made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List!

 

My criminal career came to an abrupt end in the state of Texas, as I was surrounded by US Marshals, Texas Rangers, and the FBI.

 

My story may seem intriguing to some and has been described as glamorous by others. But I’m here to testify tonight, that part of my life is not the most important part of my life!

 

The most important part of my life started at 4am, on February 13, 1981,  when all alone on my knees in a jail cell in Georgetown, Texas, my life fell apart! As I wept uncontrollably, and as I contemplated ways to take my life, my hands slipped up under the bunks mattress. My hand felt something and I pulled out a Gideon’s New Testament. Just like the one I left behind in the jail cell I escaped from! How many of you know, that you can’t out run God! Because the more you run from Him the more you run in too Him! Amen!

 

I opened that Bible and you would have thought I would have turned to John 3:16, but I did not, I opened it to Rom 8:28, “We know all things happen for good, to those that love God and are called according to His Purpose.”   What are you saying God? You mean you have a purpose for my life! Just what I needed to hear!! As I turned to the back of that bible I Cried Out To God and Accepted The Lord Jesus Christ as my Personal Saviour!  Amen!

 

 

 

I was just glad to be alive, I had been stabbed and thrown out of  a moving left to die, I had been on my knees, in Bogota Columbia, when a gun held to the back of my head, ready to be executed, when the man holding the gun became so violently ill that began to shake, became scared, dropped the gun and ran from the room!

 

You see, God had a plan for my life,  as I was in the process of serving what appeared to be a lifetime of prison sentences He literally opened prison doors, transformed my life and set me free! And He has been showing me a new way ever since!

 

For the last twenty nine years, Has blessed me beyond measure.He has allowed me to serve Him for three years on the foreign mission field in West Africa seeing thousands  accept Him into there life.

 

He has allowed me to serve Him as a full time chaplain in of all places, the Sheriffs Office. God has a real since of humor….

 

 God is good all the time! He has given me favor with both Him and man and on February 13, 2008, exactly twenty eight years to the day I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal saviour. Gov. Charlie Crist granted me an executive full pardon. 

 

Suffice to say my Brothers and Sisters, God does not give up on anybody, and neither should we! God Is In The Life Changing Business, say that with me…..

 

God bless you all as you serve Him!

 

 

Comment by Donna Wilcher on September 21, 2010 at 12:32pm

Hi Everyone..

Here are some questions that may help you get started telling YOUR STORY!

What was your life before you met Jesus
Who introduced you to Him?
What has your life been like after you met Him?
How are you now sharing Him with others?

Comment by Donna Wilcher on September 21, 2010 at 12:31pm

Welcome Emily and Mia...Thanks for joining the Group!

Comment by EMILY WAIRIMU MWANGI on September 21, 2010 at 4:53am

this is a great idea. For me knowing God has been a step by step thing. its not been easy especially on the faith front. oft times i have found me giving up. but its because of the Love that God has for us and in never letting us go that has kept me running back to the arms of his love. and i thank God he has the patience

Comment by mia smith on September 20, 2010 at 1:04pm

First , Thank GOD for a Group like this to help the people come to togather. and thank you Sister Donna, for a wonderful Group you made to edfiying the Church. GOD bless you and all the Group members. <:>< mia