Jubilee Apostolic Tabernacle
Personal Testimony
Praise the Lord and welcome visitors:
My name is Irma Patterson and I love my church. I’m new at Jubilee Apostolic Tabernacle and was baptized in the name of Jesus, on Sept. 14th, 2008 at JAT.Before JAT, I was visiting other churches during all of 2007. In 2008 I was in need to belong to a church so I began to ask and trust in the Lord to find a place for me to worship. I knew He had a home for me and a date for my Baptism. One of the most beautiful experiences I ever had was when I received the gift of the Holy Ghost and began speaking in other tongues. This occurred just before midnight on New Year’s eve when I was full need of the Lord and deep in prayer.
The Lord has been so good to me and has Blessed me in many different ways. My biggest blessing is belonging to Jubilee Apostolic Tabernacle and having Pastor Hoyer as my pastor.
Visitor’s, I want you to know that JAT has an awesome Pastoral family. Every preaching we receive from Pastor Hoyer or our Assistant Pastor, Daniel Velasquez, reaches right out to you and leave’s you in a AAUUHH! (well it does to me). We continue to receive awesome worship services every Sunday and great teachings on Wednesday night. Please come for a visit and glorify the Lord with us.
May God Bless you all.
Meet Brother Joe Perez.
When it comes to the power of prayer and the miracles of Jesus, Brother Joe can spend all day telling you about the wonders of the Lord.
As he was recollecting about years past, he told a story about when he was walking with his nine year old daughter, Delilha, and his eight year old son David when a ferocious doberman pincher suddenly approached them and lunged at them, ready to tear the flesh from their bodies.
Filled with the holy ghost, he starred the dog straight in the eyes and the dog suddenly froze in mid air. It was as if the Lord had a grip on it preventing any harm to him and his children allowing them to get out of harms way.
My name is Carlos Garza. By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ I am a 36 years young man and am still alive to share my story with you of how God's love never dies. To Him and Him alone be the honor and glory of it all. If I were to write about everything He has done for me and my family there wouldn't be enough space in the world to write it all down, so i will just share the best part of my story, my commitment, and what happened that led me to that commitment to the Lord.
When I was a teenager when i started to run with the wrong crowd. i started drinking alcohol and using drugs at an early age and this went on for quite some time. I began to feel like i was missing something in my life. I didn't know what it was, but I felt things were just not right. Everything I did was just not fun anymore, no matter what I did. I began to use more and different kinds of drugs. my sexual addiction became more and more heightened to try to fill the empty feelings I had but nothing was working. As a result, I became a very angry young man.
Then one day my parents, as they always did, invited me to church. I attended church and began to feel the joy I was missing in my life. I was very reluctant at first to get baptized because I was in my mid twenties and felt that if I did get baptized I wouldn't be able to enjoy life like I wanted to. I felt I needed to enjoy life just a little more then i could make that commitment to God. Looking back, it was the worst decision I would ever make in my life! After having come to that conclusiono, I left the church and returned to the life I had before. Needless to say, things in my life went from bad to worse. I began to use drugs more than I ever had in my life. I even began to sell them to support my habit. The anger inside me grew to a point that I got in trouble with the law. I was put on probation at first, then eventually I ended up in jail.
When I just turned 34 years old and realized I had not been sober for more than 2 days since the time I was a teenager. In jail the food is terrible. After coming down off of drugs I was really hungry all the time. They really don't feed you enough. I was hungry, lonely, scared, depressed, angry, and what not. I thought I was not going to make it out of that place. Thoughts of suicide ran through my mind constantly. Than one day, I dont know why, I asked a man by the name of Lee Majors if he could spare some food because I was really hungry. To my surprise, he led me to his locker and offered me more food than I had asked for. I thanked him and returned to my bed. I began to thank God for the food I received. I began to cry with thanksgiving. Then the same man who had givem me the food came to me and asked if I would be interested in attending a bible study with some of the other men. I went along and that day I gave my life to the Lord and my life has never been the same.
When I got out of jail, I was baptized in the name of Jesus on March 16, 2008. I am happier than I have ever been in my life! Today, i am a father to my child, a son to my parents, and a member of my family. I see the world through a set of eyes only the Lord could give me! Ihave been sober for more that a year. I am free from all mind and mood altering substances and I know I could not have done it own my own. I owe it all to our Lord Jesus Christ! To Him be all the honor and glory forever and ever, Amen!
