“A CHURCH BUILT ON FAITH” The Rio Grande Full Gospel Church was founded in May of 1970; the men and women of the church built the present sanctuary in the summer of 1972. In 1975, the kitchen-fellowship room, as well as restrooms was add adjoining the sanctuary. In 1981, a large multi-purpose room with classrooms was added, and in 2004, new restrooms were built to accommodate more people, as well as the physically challenged individual. In 2007 our pastor and a couple friends build a new outdoor picnic shelter for us. About Some of Our People | | What we want to express here is that we are real people, with the same real victories and defeats that everybody faces. Yet, as Christians, have an an anchor, to which our hopes and dreams are tied, an anchor far beyond natural realm. This, we want to share with you. Our Testimonies. | Lisa - "29" I would love to introduce myself. My name is Lisa. I have a miracle medical testimony. To tell about me, I would have to tell you about my little girl, Ashlynn. Ashy was born with a very rare genetic bowel and bladder disease which foretold fatality. Not given the chance to survive by the doctors, I took my plea to God. Jesus answered my prayers and took FULL control of Ashlynn's life. Ashlynn is alive and well with 5 newly acquired organs. Being the first under age 2 child to receive a multi (many) organ transplant, Ashlynn paved the way for other babies and children to live a fulfilling life. Now at age 4 and growing like a weed, Ashlynn had received her bowel transplant on July 31, 2005 and is currently attending special needs preschool and loves being with other kids. The bladder problem she still has and I must intermittent (periodically) catherize her to keep her kidneys from being in distress from backflow. This is something she'll have to endure for life and this is small potatoes compared to having a life to live. Ashlynn is just one of many examples of God's love for us. I'm so humbled, blessed, and loved by all He has done and I continue to learn through this adventurous journey of faith, love, and patience. I have been a Christian all my life but it wasn't until I rededicated myself back to Jesus (in my heart personally and spiritually) later on. Getting baptized at age 18, I was wanting to publically announce that I was ready. Little did I know, I wasn't ready as I was tried and tested in college. My spirit was under constant attack and once I graduated I was able to finally get my life focused back on God. I was then able to enhance my studies and fully understand what the Holy Spirit was trying to teach and coach me. But the true education didn't start until my Ashlynn came along and since then, I have made a conscious effort to keep GOD first. God has shown me so much and I'm still learning. I get so emotional because I love my Jesus for his patience and love. I'm a girl, I'm allowed to get silly emotional. So with God all things are possible. I came across a wonderful poem/quote/saying that describes my "Ashy Journey". "I thank God for the Mountains and I thank God for the Valleys
I thank Him for the Storms he has brought me through.
For if I never had a problem I'd never know there was a God who could solve them. I'd never know what faith in my God could do. Where, the Will of God will never take you, where the grace of God cannot protect you. For when there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need!" Amen. | George – 75 years old My mother was a Christian, but never forced Jesus on us. As a teenager, I thought that someday I would come to know Jesus as my Lord, but put the decision off. Mom attended church at the 23rd and Liberty Methodist church, where my grandfather was deacon. What really brought me to Jesus was watching my wife for years. She had something that I could not touch; the way she cared for people. One night the pastor from Mt Aetna Baptist Church came to my house to visit. The first thing he said to me was, “George what are you going to do about Jesus?” I knew I had reached a fork in the middle of my road. That day I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, knowing there was no turning back. From that day forward things started getting easier for us. He has taught me what love is, how to give it away, and how to receive it back. He has taught us how to manage our money, how to give away, and how it will always returns to you multiplied. In 1970, Lester Sumrall was teaching the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The teaching allowed several of us to receive this precious in-filling of the Holy Spirit, including our pastor at the time. The pastor wanted to continue to teach and lead the people in the things of the Holy Spirit, the church board decided not to allow him, thus the Rio Grande Full Gospel Church was born. As a Sheet Metal Worker, my job often called for me to travel around Indiana and Illinois. And, as with all construction occupations there were the lay offs. God provided protection for my family while I was away, and met every need we ever had in some manner, often miraculously. In 2004, I saw God heal Beverly’s leg, through the hands of surgeons and nurses, a healing nobody thought was possible, and that loss of the leg was a certainty. Yet, in 2005, Beverly was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. She left this world a few weeks later, to prepare us a place when our day arrives. Understanding losing your mate of 54 years is something you cannot do unless you have experienced it. About three weeks earlier as I drove our car into town, it became filled with odor of perfume, then God spoke to me saying He was taking Beverly home. Yes, it hurts, and no, I do not understand it all, but I am assured that when Satan attacks from all directions; God will deliver us. Her death has brought the rest of the family closer to each other, and to God. | | Name: Bob Age: Older than God Bob has a ministry that includes visiting many of our local nursing homes where in song and word he encourages the residents. [] | Name: Van Age: 55 (and still alive!) Update! 57 and looking for Heaven I “grew up” in some sort of church though out my life. If there were any church doors open, Mom had us kids in there. Baptist, United Brethren, Methodist it did not matter, we were in church. Like most teenagers, I got rebellious for a while, and then I found that I had been selected for a high school class trip to South East Asia. I prayed. Uncle Sam sent me to shiver me bones in remote Alaska. I went to church, talked the talk, and even taught Sunday school classes, with nothing more than a head full of Biblical knowledge. I kinda, sorta, had a deep respect for God, but I did not truly know Him. At age 28, a traumatic event took place in my life that ripped my heart out. The next day, Sunday, at Rio Grande Full Gospel Church I made a decision that what I was doing, what I thought, and how I was living was just not working. I needed something different. When the invitation to ask Jesus into your life was given, I walked to the front, knelt, and with Pastor Sam's guidance, prayed. When I woke Monday morning something had changed but I was not sure just what. everything was new, the trees, the sky, the air. It all looked different somehow. I was Born-Again. The greatest miracle in all the universe took place November 1st, 1981 at that alter. Salvation. Since I have witnessed the hand of God in my life, including resurrection from the near, or possibly, dead and healing from terminal stage IV cancer. If I tried to write down everything God has done in my life, it would be like the last verse of the Gospel of John. Today, when I approach Him, and whisper “Daddy”, I know, that I know, that I know, He loves me, and hears my every word. | | | | | | | | You can check out our Pastor and Wife at: Our Pastor |
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