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Teen Page
Craig Johnson is an answer to prayer.
Craig is now our Youth Director and
assistant pastor.
Craig is now our Youth Director and
assistant pastor.
A holiday event at our church.
Some Pictures from Camp "Bill Rice Ranch" 2009
Good stuff at the
Church Breakfast
Oct 11, 2009
Church Breakfast
Oct 11, 2009
Craig Johnston's testimony.
I was born in christian home and I was raised in church my whole life. My dad was also a pastor for
part of the time. He started out as a youth pastor at a country church in Oklahoma called Indian
Baptist Church. It was at that church when I realized my need for salvation. One Sunday after noon
right after church was over I went up to the pastor and said that I want to get saved. The pastor took
me into a room showed me some bible verses and explained to me how to get saved. When he was
done he ask me to repeat a prayer after him. I repeated the prayer and when we was done he ask me
if I was saved. I said no. I was eight years old but I just did not understand completely what it meant to
be saved. Months past and on a Sunday night after church I went to my mother when it was just about
bed time and I said that I wanted to get saved. Mom took her bible and showed me what I needed to
do to get saved. I prayed to God and ask him to save me. Shortly after I was baptized in a river
because our church did not have a baptistery.
Not long after, my dad became the pastor at a church in Arkansas. He was also the principle of the
christian school they had at the church. We were at that church for a few years and then dad resigned
as the pastor. We moved back up to Illinois and we attended different churches. By this time I was in
my early teens. My family was having problems and things were not going that well.
Because of the circumstances in my life made it difficult growing up as a teen. I new that I was not
what God wanted me to be. I also began to doubt my salvation. I wanted to believe that I was saved
and thought I was, but I began to have doubts about my salvation. This went on for a few years until
one year our church went to a church camp. It was Camp Joy in Wisconsin. That week at camp God
really spoke to me. I made a decision that week to get right with God and to get assurance of my
salvation. I remember one night I was in bed and I prayed to God to give me assurance of my
salvation. I keep praying and begging God, and than it was almost like God or the Holy Spirit spoke to
me in a voice and said, you can stop praying now, there is no need for you to praying any longer. So I
said to God, I will stop praying, but if I wake up in the morning and do not have peace than I will pray
some more and start bagging again. I woke up the next morning and I had peace in my heart. I
surrender my life to God and I never doubted my salvation since.
It was a few months or a year later when the church we was attending was having a week long
youth activity. A group came from a college in Wisconsin to do this activity at our church. They had
games, food, and preaching every night that week. One of the nights God spoke to me and I
surrendered to God's calling on my life to preach. That day I felt that God called me to preach and
from that day forward I still believe that God has called me to preach. After God called me to preach I
continued to follow God. I went to Bible college to help prepare me for the ministry. Now God has
opened the door for me to get started in the ministry at Fellowship Baptist Church.
I was born in christian home and I was raised in church my whole life. My dad was also a pastor for
part of the time. He started out as a youth pastor at a country church in Oklahoma called Indian
Baptist Church. It was at that church when I realized my need for salvation. One Sunday after noon
right after church was over I went up to the pastor and said that I want to get saved. The pastor took
me into a room showed me some bible verses and explained to me how to get saved. When he was
done he ask me to repeat a prayer after him. I repeated the prayer and when we was done he ask me
if I was saved. I said no. I was eight years old but I just did not understand completely what it meant to
be saved. Months past and on a Sunday night after church I went to my mother when it was just about
bed time and I said that I wanted to get saved. Mom took her bible and showed me what I needed to
do to get saved. I prayed to God and ask him to save me. Shortly after I was baptized in a river
because our church did not have a baptistery.
Not long after, my dad became the pastor at a church in Arkansas. He was also the principle of the
christian school they had at the church. We were at that church for a few years and then dad resigned
as the pastor. We moved back up to Illinois and we attended different churches. By this time I was in
my early teens. My family was having problems and things were not going that well.
Because of the circumstances in my life made it difficult growing up as a teen. I new that I was not
what God wanted me to be. I also began to doubt my salvation. I wanted to believe that I was saved
and thought I was, but I began to have doubts about my salvation. This went on for a few years until
one year our church went to a church camp. It was Camp Joy in Wisconsin. That week at camp God
really spoke to me. I made a decision that week to get right with God and to get assurance of my
salvation. I remember one night I was in bed and I prayed to God to give me assurance of my
salvation. I keep praying and begging God, and than it was almost like God or the Holy Spirit spoke to
me in a voice and said, you can stop praying now, there is no need for you to praying any longer. So I
said to God, I will stop praying, but if I wake up in the morning and do not have peace than I will pray
some more and start bagging again. I woke up the next morning and I had peace in my heart. I
surrender my life to God and I never doubted my salvation since.
It was a few months or a year later when the church we was attending was having a week long
youth activity. A group came from a college in Wisconsin to do this activity at our church. They had
games, food, and preaching every night that week. One of the nights God spoke to me and I
surrendered to God's calling on my life to preach. That day I felt that God called me to preach and
from that day forward I still believe that God has called me to preach. After God called me to preach I
continued to follow God. I went to Bible college to help prepare me for the ministry. Now God has
opened the door for me to get started in the ministry at Fellowship Baptist Church.