Begin to see what God has done in her life, my life included, and uh just lets let us hear uh
from her. So my initial first time coming to church, I was invited by a friend. And at that
time, it was about 12 years ago, now my first invitation that I got to hungry generation.
I had just graduated from a Catholic High School. So when I was invited I was like no
It's okay I already have a church I already go somewhere and I'm Catholic and that's it.
And no one's going to convince me to go anywhere else. That was my thought. So I got invited, then
Invited again, and finally, I gave in. I said if I want to be more like Christ I should attend and
just give it a try. But even before that I was before coming to the church I was volunteering I
and I was just trying to seek different things within
the church. I was trying to present um events to do at the church. I was getting shut down,
anyways, I got discouraged, but besides that I was just trying to find something else that I
had no idea what it was. I was like there has to be more than just coming to church and just
leaving the same as you came in and if for the most part the life that we had there we grew up
Catholic. My parents were Catholic, grandma was Catholic, and em, it was like you would
go to church come back and then just live your regular life, go to a party, there's barbecues,
there's drinking, there's things happening right after church. so I was confused so I get invited
to church and the moment I walk in worship was going and I just in tears absolute tears the
moment I came in I did not know what it was until later on I discovered that it was em
encountering the Holy Spirit because even then I was like what is this? why am I crying so much?
but I knew that moment that I stepped in here I knew that I knew that this was my church.
I knew this is where I belong come on let's put our hands together for Jesus, started crying Holy
Spirit encountered her I was there, continue your testimony, so after that um there is two
big things that really stuck to me the most when I first started coming to church um it was ( 1)
someone told me there said you're gonna rewrite your family history and (2) was um to save what
God commissioned to save souls and make disciples, and again at that time I was fresh to all of this
I had no idea really what it meant I was like rewrite your family history how do I do that?
I had no idea but I put my heart and I said okay since I was told you're going to rewrite your
family history I thought I was going to have to physically do something that I had to go
shake my family and hey come to church so I was trying to do that without really knowing and then
when it came to save souls and make disciples I thought God was going to bring them to me. So
I had those two things swapped and it took about four years for me to really truly four years of me
battling and shaking my family members and having arguments and constantly always battling and
them not supporting my decision telling me things such as you're Catholic you're always going to be
Catholic you're a baptized Catholic your grandma's Catholic what is she going to think they're going
to be upset with you. So I did I faced a lot of family members upset questioning doubting and
just talking bad about all these things like why are you going there they're just brainwashing you
and things like that so when that happened kind of got fed up and finally like I truly
can say I truly surrendered to God because I thought I had but when I I was just at
a point that I finally surrendered and God showed me and revealed to me like you know
rewriting the family history was coming from him and the saving souls I kept I had to just continue
to do that because i the moment I came in I was on fire. I was bringing people in inviting people
sometimes I'd have like a whole pew of first-timers coming to church so I just continued
to do that because that's what I knew and then God slowly started to show and reveal to me and just
do his work it I mean it's just God who could do that to bring from my brother to Christ, my
family receiving Christ, a cousin that I see with his wife back here, On Wednesday's I mean just God
just showing and bringing my family where that is a part of rewriting my family history that I had
no idea what it was going to look like. (Clapping) Come on let's put our hands together for Jesus.
Amen when one soul will bring a thousand Amen and this is one of the reasons we pray when we
we bring out the list that we're praying there's there's more Sylvia's there's more John's there's
more David's there's more Zack's that are written on there that when their souls get saved the whole
family tree will get saved for the glory of God Amen don't underestimate the prayers that you pray
yes it's been a spam of 12 years but not 12 years the family tree began to be changed not
just in the U.S in Mexico and all over the place where they're right now they're saying teach
me more of the God that you serve Amen. So go ahead share your testimony I mean not mine,
no so with that it's just you know God's truly is opening doors things within my family were
like I said my grandma we had a crusade in Mexico she drove hours just to be there I have aunties
who've given their life to christ who follow pastor Vlad have his books and everything so
just so many family members and then those around them too that are being impacted they're sharing
our live stream they're constantly on there so just to see the true power of God because only
God can do that and so, if I were to say you know anything to you guys if it's your first time here
and coming in from a Catholic background or a background where you just you know battling just
surrender to God give it all to God put him first and he will do the rest. One thing too is like
salvations continue to preach the word because the moment you take care of God's people God's
taking care of your people so, come on let's put our hands together for Jesus (clapping)
thank you so much Sylvia this is so awesome to see