Bridge Community Church Harstine Island

Sherry Ford

As a child I was not raised in a home that went to church, but I was raised to believe there is a God and the story of Jesus.  After marrying Ken I joined the mormon church around 1983, I did not quite understand the Joseph Smith side to the teaching and could never really get into reading their scripture.  There was a brief period in the mid-90’s that I took my boys to church regularly.  It did not last long.  Now I know that God just didn’t want me there and took the desire away from me to return.  In January 2002, I was laying in bed recovering from pneumonia, watching Billy Graham. I understood what he had to say and I wanted the Holy Spirit in me and I wanted eternal life.  He said all that wanted to accept Jesus Christ to come down in front, those at home get on your knees.  I did so, tearfully.  And he prayed with me.  That is when I was saved.

A year later, Ken approached me about trying out our friend’s church, Calvary Chapel in El Cajon.  I was thrilled. I immediately said yes. We stayed with Calvary until we moved up here.

But the desire to learn more and more and to really get into His word came when we moved up here and started at Bridge Community Church.

The biggest change Christ has made in my life is moving me way up here from the area I was born.  He put us on the fast track…our house sold in three days once it was put live on the market, I was enticed to check out property on the street name of my youngest son in a County I had not originally considered.  Both offers were accepted on the same day; we were given a 20 day escrow to move out of our house; and within a matter of weeks from the close of escrow, we were on our way to Washington to live.  I knew Jesus had a hand in this move.  All the evidence was there.  Ken and I both prayed so much about this move.

Once I moved up here, within a month I became very ill and was hospitalized for 16 days.  I depended on prayer to get through a very scary time.  I still go to Christ daily, not just for help, but for praise for my health, our home, our family and our community.  God is good and He put us here.

Baptism to me is an outward sign that I have accepted Christ in my life. This baptism is important because I had been baptized once before, but in the mormon church.  Ken and I have renounced our membership to the mormon church, and who knows what we were baptized to in that church.  Now the time has come for us/me to be baptized as a Christian.  On August 16, 2007, after receiving confirmation of my letter to the Mormon Church, my husband and I were baptized together at Mason Lake by Pastor Howard Spear, during Bridge Churches’ annual picnic.  I did this to obey God’s command to be baptized and to show my faith in him to the world.