Testimony of nancyawalker - Nancy Walker

I can tell you when Jesus came into my heart -  I believe it was August 5, 1951 when I was baptized.  I was only two months old at the time, but I was raised a Christian, and my life has been a series of discoveries of what that means.  I went to Sunday School, was confirmed, and always went to church, even when I was at University and there were very few of us up on a Sunday morning on campus.

I remember having long arguments with a classmate when I was 14 about whether God existed.  One day as I was reflecting on what we had said, I realized that I couldn't prove it, and he couldn't disprove it, but I believed anyway.  And when I was 17 and had to make some hard decisions, and I felt
God's presence helping me to be strong.  And during those years I made some good decisions, and some bad ones, but God was always with me.  When I was 21, God spoke to me and told me that God wanted me to be ordained.  I fought the idea, but God persisted. So I went on with my education. When I met Ian, and I was falling in love with him, I prayed that if he was the right man for me, he would come to church with me without me even asking him.  The very next week he asked if he could come to church with me!  That clinched it!

A year after we got married, I had a vision of Jesus and received the gift of tongues, and the gift of love.  It's a good thing that I had God's presence in my life, because the next few years were very hard.  After I graduated, they would not accept me into Seminary, and I couldn't find a job, and neither could Ian.  So I made myself a job as a mother. We ended up having five babies in seven years! And we ended up doing music ministry in a remote fishing village on the west coast for four months, then homeless in Vancouver for three months, before finding a house to rent.  Ten years later, Ian was transferred here to Winnipeg, and I was finally able to go to Seminary.  It took me ten years to get through all my training, but finally was ordained in 2003, about 31 years after God first called me to ministry!

I was called to be the pastor in two small country churches where I stayed for four years, until the conflict in one of the churches got to be too much for me and God graciously allowed me to quit.  I have been doing interim ministry in a little church in Winnipeg half-time, filling in for a pastor who is on extended sick leave, and it now appears that this might become permanent.  Meanwhile I have gone back to school and I am starting to write a thesis on evangelism.

God has given me some tough assignments, and I reassure myself that this must be because God thinks I can handle them.  With God's help, of course!

That's only a brief summary of my testimony - the real testimony is what God has made of me, and what God has done through me.  I pray that God will continue the work that has begun.

Original Post by nancyawalker:

That's only a brief summary of my testimony - the real testimony is what God has made of me, and what God has done through me.  I pray that God will continue the work that has begun.

 Nancy - thank you for sharing your testimony with us.  May God continue to use you for His glory!  My favorite scripture - Philippians 1:6!  Norma Jean

It sounds as if you were destined to be in the ministry.  I don't think that you had any other choice (without going out of God's will)

I am glad that HE is still working on me.  I don't think that we cease from being molded.  Not until we go to be with HIM.

Thank you for sharing.

\o/  Denna

Hey Nancy - thanks for sharing your testimony - I'd love to hear more about your evangelism paper.  I thank God everyday for the young girls who cared enough to reach out and share the Gospel of Christ with me; that God loved me so much that He sent his son to die for my sins so that I can be re-united with Him and become his child! I hate to think of what direction my life would be now without Jesus! Throughout the scriptures you see where others were saved because of Jesus touching one life. I guess we won't know the full impact our lives have had on others until we get to heaven.