Twenty-nine years ago, from a life that truly was dishonoring to God and man, Almighty God decided that He was going to get my attention. You see, I had no time for God, I had no thought of God, and I had no concern for God's work.
As a fourteen year old, my father had died and I was left with a mother who loved me but could not control, nor discipline me; not to go into details life went from bad to worse until I was married at eighteen. There was no positive change for me. Things just became worse and worse until at twenty-eight, the Lord took our one-month old baby. That was the most hurt I had ever encountered and experienced in my entire life.
Through this difficult time, I met a Baptist preacher who began to encourage me to attend church. Through much encouraging, I finally decided to go and at twenty-nine, the Lord called and saved me. Many were shocked that I could have become a church go-er and that I professed to believe in Christ as my Savior. I joined the church and after a short time began to play the organ, and then to teach Sunday School. The Lord had planted such a zeal in me that I wanted to study as much as I could have in the Bible.
I began seeing the importance of understanding about salvation. That it was truly a gift from God and only by His grace. He gave us the gift of Faith through His grace and with that, the understanding of being saved. What a wondrous thing!
It was then I was introduced to ... A Systematic Study of Bible Doctrines... by TP Simmons and...The Reformed Doctrines of Grace... by Lorraine Boettner. These books, together with my textbook, THE BIBLE, God used these to transform my life. The teachings were very hard to accept and my will and all my previous upbringing fought against them but the Spirit of God finally led me into accepting those God-glorifying doctrines. I finally realized that I had nothing to actively do with my salvation but that God had elected me, had called me, and had given me a new heart that He had authored my salvation and that He was going to finish it also. I learned that ALL GLORY BELONGED TO GOD FOR MY SALVATION. Just as I could not have chosen my earthly father, so too, I could not have chosen God to be my Father but that it was He Who had chosen me. I had not found Him, but He had found me.
After building three church buildings and planting two Sovereign Grace Churches,one in Trinidad, and the other in St Croix.I came to Mississippi in 1999 then became a member of Woodlawn Baptist Church and began to minister in two prisons. I also tried to work with the Mexican community but the doors kept being closed on me.The prison ministry was very edifying not only to me, but to the prison community I ministered to.
After I came to the States, I got a great job with all the benefits that accompanies a good job; the Lord was however dealing with me to go back to my homeland and plant churches. I quit my job in June 2001, fully determined to give up all if I have to, to serve my Lord.I now am in Trinidad. I am here and have started another Sovereign Grace, Landmark Baptist Mission work out of Woodlawn Baptist Church to the Lord's glory.
My mother died in August of 2003 and in visiting some friends from the church that I had first planted, I was asked to come back and pastor that church. They had not had anything going on and everyone seemed to have become very complacent in their Christianity. I did not give them an answer but asked for time to think about it and pray about it.
On Jan 12th 2004, my wife and I went to that church where we were met by just over a dozen people; at the moment of writing, August 2006, our attendance has more than tripled and the people are only too willing to study and labor. There is such a worshipful and eager to work attitude that our hearts are truly blessed in being there once more. Lord's willing, I am trusting that several more churches will come out of this church that I am now pastoring.
The Lord has laid on my heart so much but I am trusting that in the near future, I will be able to go back to planting another church as the Lord will have me.
For the past twenty-nine years, the Lord has shown me the truth about Salvation and His Church. I continue to preach and teach these truths wherever I am. My doctrinal position has not changed. By God's grace will never change. I am not looking for new truths. God has already put a period there, I dare not put a question mark now.
I preach and teach Doctrines that proclaim a Sovereign God Who cannot be limited by a depraved, carnal creation such as man through man's depraved freewill. I proclaim local and landmarks church truths that our Baptist forefathers died for by the countless millions from the Early Church to now. By the Lord's grace, I will continue to uplift His most precious Name.
May I say to you, If you are saved, it's because He loved you, He found you, He called you, He keeps you, and He will ultimately glorify you. If you are not saved, I want you to know that Jesus died for His people, sinners. If the Spirit of God can make you see yourself as a sinner, then commit yourself to Him. He said...all that the Father hath given to Him, will come to Him, and all who comes to Him He will never cast out.
