I was nine years old when I asked Jesus into my heart to save me. As a child, I struggled with my salvation until I was twelve. At the age of twelve, I was baptized and became a member of my family’s church.
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Growing up, my home life was wonderful. My parents taught me right from wrong; they took me to church every Sunday. Even though I knew all the Bible stories, as a teenager I became rebellious.
Read MoreWhen I was 14, my Daddy taught me the meaning of work. He needed me to help him, but he gave me a gift, whether he knew it or not. It was a valuable gift for a blind man to find out I didn’t have to sit in the corner. I was 14 when I started learning hard work. We were cutting wood with a crosscut saw when a block came off and bumped my shin, and I said a bad word I won’t repeat here.
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I grew up a PK. PK means preacher’s kid and, because I was one, my parents made me go to all the church services all the time whether I wanted to or not. When I was 8 years old, I went forward at the end of a Sunday morning service to receive Christ as my Savior. I did this, not because it meant something to me, but because I wanted to do it before any of my other church friends did. Needless to say, that didn’t take.
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I was raised in the Catholic Church and attended Catholic school until I was fourteen. At the church my father attended, the gospel was never really explained like my father heard it on the radio. When the preacher said you must be born again, you must have a personal relationship with God, my father thought, “I don’t have one,” but in his heart he knew he would find the right church that would tell him how to be born again.
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As the pitcher on the Ashe County All Star baseball team, I was at practice when my Papaw Lawrence picked me up to go to a revival service at our church, Bald Mountain Baptist. Evangelist Neil Hatfield was preaching. He used his cinder block example to show us how God would give us strength in our lives. As a young boy, it really portrayed to me what kind of strength God could give me throughout my life.
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Since Psalm 107:2-3 is an Old Testament passage of Scripture this is talking about the many ways that the Lord redeemed people in Old Testament times. Thus we see something that is very important for believers in the redemption that comes through the Messiah Jesus to understand. That is, from the very beginning of our Lord God Almighty’s creation He has been the God who redeems humanity though we don’t deserve it!!
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A year later, I woke up in a hospital ICU with little recall of the scary past couple of days I had been through. My dad came in and gently told me that I had come very, very close to dying due to an ailment called Reye’s Syndrome. I’d been on the verge of death for hours and lots of folks in our town had been praying, some praying side-by-side with my parents in hospital hallways. When Dad left the ICU room a little later, I was stunned by what he had told me. I prayed my second prayer: “God, I almost died. The rest of my life is Yours.”
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As remarkable as it may sound for someone growing up in the South, in the so-called “Bible belt”, and attending a university that at its founding had been a Methodist men’s college, I had never really heard the Gospel until I was 18 years old. That all changed on a late afternoon in mid-September of 1978.
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To give you an idea of how The Cornerstone came to be, we—John & Pat Pope, founders & former stewards of this beautiful Christian Bookstore—would like to briefly share a bit of our story. Forty-five years ago, the Father drew us to Himself and made us His own.
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“I never thought I would end up in social work. If you had asked me when I was starting college, I would have been like, “No way, that is not for me. I don't I don't see myself in social work.’ But now, genuinely, I think that this job is my career. This is my forever job because I am just so passionate,” she said. “I'm getting to help these families that have these kids that are in kinship placement.”
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Danny Edmisten and his older brother, Corey, grew up going to Parkway School, riding dirt bikes, playing soccer and video games, and exploring the woods together. The brothers also worked together for their family’s heating and air company during their summer breaks.
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I live in North Wilkesboro but work for Scott Brothers Heating and Cooling in Ashe County. We report for work every day at 8 a.m., and I’m the kind of guy who always gets there right at 8, but never early.
However, on the morning of October 26, 2009, I woke up earlier than usual, and I felt led to leave my house 20 minutes earlier than usual.
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We have been learning and re-learning that many times you have to meet the physical needs of people before you can properly address their spiritual needs. Nicole and I feel so honored that God has called us to this lifestyle.
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At 10 years old I was in church and baptized, but as I grew older and got my first job, I stopped going. I fell into the habit of going to church and then leaving again, but, after getting married and settling down, I felt like God was calling me to join a church.
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My name is Sam Petersen and I am now 12-years-old. My family first started going to Bethel Baptist in Cary, NC when I was about 3-years-old. I started Awana Cubbies when I was 4. I heard about the plan of salvation many times in Awana and in other church services. We memorized verses in Awana. One of them was Romans 3:23, which states: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” It was then that I knew that I was a sinner.
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I moved to Boone 7 years ago with my wife, Miel, and we have three children. I work for ASU in the ACT program (Appalachian and the Community Together). This is a program that matches student volunteers with needs in the community. Visiting and talking with non-profit organizations helps us determine what the community needs most and hopefully allows us to meet those needs through individual student volunteers, larger groups and academic classes that have a service-component.
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Losing my father, Norman Cheek, was one of the most difficult things that I have ever had to go through. Last year was very hard, but God has taught me several things through this process. The grieving makes me think back to my childhood.
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After a violent divorce between my mother and father, my father took my brother and me to live with him. He couldn’t handle us, so he took us to our grandmother who lived in Snow Camp, NC. She was given custody of me and my four siblings. Not long afterwards, my mother picked us up and told us we were going camping, but, in fact, she took us to Oregon to live with her and her alcoholic boyfriend. I never saw my father again until I was in my 20’s.
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I was born during my father’s time in seminary and I grew up in a church environment. My parents are loving and faithful believers. I don’t remember not loving the Lord. But over the past few years, I’ve learned that there is a difference between believing in Him and having a deep relationship with Him.
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