A Season of Restoration

As a child, I received one of the greatest gifts parents can ever give: being raised in a home with parents who fully embraced their Christian faith. This has had a lasting impact on my life and played a great part in my role for the past several years as founder of WesternJournal.com, helping renew the blessings of freedom for the current generation. My grandfather was also a man of great faith. In May of 1936, he set sail for Indonesia as a missionary and spent four years on the mission field. My father, the oldest of his five children, was raised in church.

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He met my mom at Sunday school, they were married in 1959, and I was born in 1961. I accepted Christ as Lord and Savior in 1968 at the age of 7 in my grandfather’s dining room. I prayed the sinner’s prayer on my knees. It is a blessing to come from a family that serves Christ across the generations. My parents serve Jesus, I serve Jesus, my three children serve Jesus and now my grandchildren are being blessed by growing up in a Christian home.

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As I look back, I thank God that for the first 18 years of my life, whenever the church doors opened, my entire family was there. This has accumulated and accrued in me as a tremendous blessing. But life isn’t a fairytale; it’s a journey. It is only when I look back that I see with clarity that God has directed my paths and given me unbelievable opportunities to fulfill His purpose for my life.

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