Andrew
I was born on December 25, 1986 (yes Christmas day lol). I was born into a Christian home with Christian parents and Christian beliefs. My dad is a minister in the United Church of Canada and both of my mom’s parents were Salvation Army ministers.
I always lived the “perfect” life for a kid, had my friends, went to youth group all the great things of being a kid. Then I hit 17 and spent 3 years of my life going down a dark, dark road that Satan was leading me down. I’m glad I got out when I did because if I didn’t I would either be dead or in jail right now, and I will get into why a little later.
So I hit 17 and although I still went to church and believed in God, I didn’t live a very good Christian life. I started getting into Illegal drugs, mainly Marijuana but some mushrooms as well once in a while. This all led to me smoking tobacco as well.
From 17 till about 19 that was basically my life. I would get home from school and go to a friends and smoke weed all night long. Eventually this led me into harder and mroe serious drugs.
The main one I did was Ecstasy. After I graduated Highschool I got into doing ecstasy by swallowing pills, and started to sell it with my friend as well. This is where I should be dead or in jail. My friend and I would sell ecstasy (sometimes close to 1000 pills a night) My car actually got searched by the cops on a couple different occasions and at least once I can recall there was actually pills in the vehicle. the cops never found them and I thanked God for this all the time afterwords realizing how he had much bigger plans for me.
The Ecstasy is also the area where I should be dead (according to medical professionals) because I guess there is some statistic that 1 in 3 pills could kill a person. In one night I ended up swallowing 11 pills. In my eyes I should be dead, but again God had much bigger plans for me and although Satan almost had me in jail or dead. I’m not and God’s grace is worth so much and I owe him my life and more.
I also got into Cocaine for a little while but only tried it before I realized how dark of a path my life was going down. This is when i realized that somthing needed to change Don’t worry this is where it gets happy and where I praise God for all He has done for me.
So in between everything that was happening My family moved down to Southern Ontario as my parents felt God calling them their. We had a youth group that I would go to and help out with that all of my “druggie” friends would go to.
This is when everything changed, this is where my life changed. At this youth group we had a self-proclaimed spiritual healer come in and talk to us. We all sat in a circle with her in the middle and she talked to us and told us about herself. At one point her back was to me and she turned around pointed right at me and said “you, you’re an Evangelist”. You have to realize I had never talked to this women in my life or seen her before this night. I didn’t even know what an Evangelist was at the time but, I definitely know now.
Later on in that same night this women offered to lay hands on us if we wanted her to. I of course did after talking to her later on that night on how she knew I was an evangelist. She laid hands on me and the power of the holy spirit just took my body over immediately. She started speaking in tongues and I lost all control of every muscle in my body and fell backwards. They expected this I guess and laid me down softly.
I then proceeded to lay their for another 10 minutes not able to move and that was when I realized God’s calling on my life and I’ve felt a calling to ministry ever since then. That was a little over 4 years ago.
I have been clean of all drugs since I was 20 and just recently quit smoking tobacco again (I quit and then started again after joining the Canadian Army) I now attend two church’s on a fairly regular basis. A small church of about 150 people that my dad is the Minister at. And a giant church of about 1000 people where I attend for their youth and young adult nights/events.
I have grown so much in my walk with God, in the last year or so. Although I realized when I was 20 my calling from God. It wasn’t until I was 23 that I really started to grow with him and strive to know him more personally. I now read my bible on a regular basis and talk to people about Jesus a lot.
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