Testimonials
Years of pastoring had taken it toll on Jay and Mary Newsom. They experienced just about every assault of the enemy until they finally came to Father’s House needing healing and restoration. Their Covenant CARE Group, the Alpha Group, prayed with them through these trials, but they did more than pray. They put muscle and effort toward helping with those moves.
When the Newsoms became CCG leaders the CCG they lead ministered support, prayer, and good old fashion work helping them move. The Newsoms believed God for a home of their own but debt issues kept raising their heads. Challenges at work kept all employees concerned about their jobs. A word came forth in Alpha Group, “You shall prosper in your sales and gain favor at your job!”
The Newsoms’ daughter-in-law went through the program at Dayspring Villa, is living for the Lord and bringing their granddaughter up in the faith. Despite some last minute challenges in mortgage financing, the Newsoms qualified for a loan and closed on their new home. The Alpha Group and their CCG helped move them for the last time. Praise the Lord!
Today, Jay keeps his teaching gift sharp occasionally in the pulpit and teaching various classes at Father’s House including the Discover Your Gifts class in the Mentor Path. Mary spent several years as a Children’s Ministry teacher and teaches the Legacy Parenting class with Jay. The Newsoms’ three daughters, Amy, Joy, and Ann are serving the Lord in ministry. Joy serves the Youth with her husband, Pastor Jon Coats. “This has been a time of healing and refreshing,” says Jay.
Lisa Floyd
I am 41 years old. In former years, I was known by how much dope I had or could sell. My life was a mess, and it started in my childhood. The only way I saw that I could escape was getting high and forgetting. Funny thing about dope, you forget, all right, about everything in life that is good and everyone who cares about you. I didn’t care for anyone, not even myself. I lost my children, my family’s respect, and caused my father to lose everything.
I was in prison for the second time when I met Roy and Madeline Counts, members of Father’s House who have a prison ministry. They would bring me to church at Father’s House while I was at the Turley Correctional Center on work release. I had been saved before when I was in prison, but I went back to the same place I came from, around the same people. I tried to do good, caring for my grandmother who was bedridden. After two months she died in my arms, the bills were due, and the “Dope Man” knocked on my door.
Selling dope seemed like the answer for me. Almost one year to the day, I was back in prison looking at 65 years to life, unless I accepted a plea bargain of 15 years. So Roy and Madeline start bringing me to Father’s House. They became my spiritual parents who saw me through this incarceration, who loved and believed in me. On August 22, 2004 I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
God has worked wonders in my life. I am now helping others overcome what I have overcome. God has answered so many prayers. For the first time in my life I have a man who loves me for me, a godly man. I have never loved a man before. I couldn’t. I didn’t know how. But God has helped me reconnect with my feelings, although sometimes painful, so that I can feel love again.
I love my life in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thank Him for the wonderful people in my life who care for me, and for my church who accepted me without condemning me.
Pamela Goodwin
When Pamela Goodwin brought her family, Carrie, Ryan, and Isaiah, to Father’s House she was in the throws of a painful separation. She immediately connected with a Covenant CARE Group and sought prayer. When her husband left, the family income was reduced to her salary, hardly sufficient to support her family.
The Word of the Lord came to Pamela, “You shall be promoted. It will come out of no where!” A member said, “Pick out your car, the one you want, the color you want.” Unknown to Pamela, her agency had applied for a grant funding a new program. She was promoted to head that program, one that was not there before!
Ryan finished Holland Hall and got a full engineering scholarship to Colorado School of Mines. Carrie gave birth to a beautiful son, Benjamin. She has enrolled in nursing school. Pamela not only got her promotion but she keeps growing in her work responsibilities, opening additional locations. Her abilities are being recognized. She is driving her new dream car and says, “Our CCG has been like family to us. God has used them powerfully, and lovingly, to get us through a host of problems. I thank God for Father’s House!”