Josiah

How about me... Well let’s take a look at my path. I was taken from my mother at 5 my father died in Vietnam before I was born. I bounced through a few foster homes I received every kind of abuse imaginable. Hurting, rejected and suicidal I turned to drugs, alcohol and the occult I just wanted to hurt others before they could hurt me, Being suicidal was a whole other problem... You see having the “need” to end it, all of my attempts failed. Now when you can’t stand to even look at you image in a mirror, and every suicide attempt fails now you know what it is to be low. But let’s back up the truck a second. I knew one thing ... my grandmother loved me and she was a Christian. Now at this point don’t even go there … but she prayed for me. Long and nasty story short... August 9th 1988 at 10:30 pm in an alley behind the Union Gospel Mission in Yakima Washington, I surrendered to God and Jesus Christ became my Lord and Savior. The next day I woke up and was helping people at the mission, and it wasn’t until about dinner time that I realized that I hadn’t had a drink all day or drugs. You see it took 2 5th’s of alcohol just to get me out of bed in the morning and I consumed any and all types of drugs I could get my hands on during the day. But now I had no urge to even touch anything I had been delivered. Now has walking with God been easy? No but well worth it!! My life has been rebuilt! I understand why I am here! I have a beautiful Wife!!!!!!! I own a business! And best of all I have the privilege of working with young people!!! In a nut shell that is me. In my youth I used to dream of world domination overthrowing third world countries before lunch and so on. Never in my wildest dreams would I ever think God would make it possible… You see God has granted myself and all like me that have a burden for our youth this opportunity. We are training the next world leaders. I don’t say this as a catch phrase but this is the God honest truth. As we have watched even in my life time the family unit and morality in our society fall apart with each new group of young people the cry of their hearts becomes louder and louder “SHOW ME SOMETHING REAL!!!”, and in the church for the most part we have forgotten that we have it because we get caught up in petty offenses and religious junk and lets face it these guys aren’t stupid they see right through it. So they search and they get into all manor of things because the way has not been made clear to them.I believe that this is why God told us that the name for this youth group is ARMY. It seems so that in the church that we speak of love joy peace patience kindness gentleness and self control but we do them only as it suits us or as we feel lead to do it or in the mood when infact we should be militant to these things and train as a soldier in boot camp so that these things are second nature. So we have ARMY. It is my privilege my honor and my duty to the King to see this through to the end.
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