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MR. MATT MCPHERSON: I actually gave my life to Christ when I was four. So I was very, very young. But what was interesting is I was, from very, very early on I was very interested in the Bible and I was very interested in what the Word of God said and what Christ did for us. And my dad was a pastor and my mother would have prayer with us every night, you know. It was consistent. She was very consistent. And I remember from a very, you know, from that age on really, really connecting with Christ and understanding what He was to me, that He was my Savior. And throughout my life, even my teen years I never really felt, personally, never really felt like I wanted to rebel because it made sense to me.

To me I looked at the world, I looked at trouble that was, you know, it was around us and the world and how crazy it seems things are. And I thought, well, you know what, God gave us free will. And we’re imperfect and we’re, our nature is self-centered. So I shouldn’t be surprised that the world is kind of goofed up. The cool thing is that God made a way for escape, and that was, that meant a lot to me.

MS. SHERRY MCPHERSON: My family we, we were church going people but it wasn’t a, they didn’t teach or preach the belief of, you know, making Him your personal Lord and Savior. So that was a new concept to me. I resisted it for awhile and there was a lot of anger in my family, a lot of just not violence, but just I had a lot of inner turmoil and anger and fears. And I remember we were camping, which is the only vacations we ever did, tent camping, and I remember just feeling such a conviction of the Holy Spirit.

And I walked away from the campsite to go down this dirt road to be alone. And I just was being drawn by the Lord. And I remember just crying out to Him, you know, okay You can have me. I am Yours. You know, it was almost like the anger, it came out in anger, but it was as soon as I prayed that prayer I just felt that anger melt out of me. And I was really transformed at that point. And I’ve been sold on the Lord ever since and in [phonetic] His Word every day, you know, as much as possible.