Craig Fox

I had a traditional religious upbringing, but as I grew older I did not see any need to continue attending the services because there was nothing there of relevance to me.

Over the next ten years I developed a `belief´ in God based on my own ideas. When I was twenty-five I was challenged directly from the Word of God when I was asked the following three questions:

1. Do you believe in God? Answer Yes.
2. Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? Answer Yes.
3. How do you know? Answer (after deliberation)… I don't know, I guess just because I believe in Him.

I was then shown in the Bible how people received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. After months of arguing, I decided to give God a chance to prove Himself to me, His way.

After going to a meeting, I went into a room, and prayed to God out aloud for His Holy Spirit. Very soon my English prayer changed, and I began to speak in other tongues, a spiritual prayer language to God. I was baptised by full immersion in obedience to God's Word.

I am now married to a Spirit-filled partner, and have been blessed recently with the birth of our first child. I can certainly testify to the power and grace of God in my life over the past twelve years, and thank Him for bringing me into a fellowship that preaches His Word faithfully and accurately.

 Dianne Burrows

Hi! My name is Dianne Burrows. I was brought up in Tamworth on a wheat and sheep property in the 1950's. I always believed that there must be a God as I could see God in nature on our property.

Many years passed and in the 1960's while working as a nurse at a hospital in Melbourne found the truth about God. Two of my friends who also were nurses asked me to come to a meeting in a theatre. I thought I was going to a live musical or something like that, but it turned out to be a Gospel meeting with happy people singing and clapping ~ something my church (one of the mainstream religions) did not do; especially reading from the Bible for the talk. I was a bit worried about speaking in tongues as I had not heard of that, but later the Pastor showed me in the Bible where they spoke in tongues on the day of Pentecost.

The next week I was baptised by full immersion ~ not sprinkling as I had been as a baby, and I was filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues (a prayer language that the Lord gives you) which I had never learned. I knew I had found the truth. I had always wondered why my church did not baptise people as Jesus was baptised in the River Jordon.

That was 32 years ago and I am still happy and walking with the Lord. I have married and have a Spirit-filled husband, and my teenaged children have all been baptised and Spirit-filled when they were younger. I am so happy to have the Lord to lean on and to know that He is in all our lives. I look forward to His coming again.

 Ron Frost

I first heard the true Gospel preached late in 1978. At the time I felt sorry for the people telling me as I thought that anyone believing in God must have needed a crutch to lean on.

Through a number of coincidences I ended up living in the same street as the person who had witnessed to me and consequently I was witnessed to quite a few times over a two or three month period.

In early 1979 I attended my first Revival Centres International meeting, to say I was paranoid would describe the way I felt, however during the following days a belief in God came into my life, which I had not experienced until then. I attended more meetings and was baptised and spoke in tongues. This was a great time of joy and refreshing in my life, with things like smoking, drinking and drugging leaving me never to return.

To say my life has been blessed since coming to God is an understatement. If I had written down how I would have my life turn out it would not be as good as the Lord has done for my self and my family. It is coming up to 21 years of fellowship in Revival Centres International and I can honestly say I am as excited about the message, the fellowship and my own personal walk as I was 21 years ago. Praise the Lord I look forward to the next 21 years.