Lora's Story

I don't know if I have made a difference in someone's life. But I have been so incredibly blessed since joining in prayer support for JC's Girls. Supporting them in prayer has made such changes in me and my relationship with God that I feel overwhelmed with joy! I don't know if I can describe it. But I would highly recommend that anyone thinking about joining a prayer support team to join right away!

Now I just love spending time in prayer. Which is really time worshiping God! I use Pastor Miles' AWCIPA* format and tend to spend most of my time in the "A" state. That's where the Holy Spirit seems to lead me the most clearly. My prayer time, which can last for many hours, is precious to me. Each time I pray I get closer to Jesus. I become more and more aware of Him and His voice. I just can't get over how wonderful this whole experience is!!!

I've been a believer in Jesus Christ since I was 5. But never until these last couple months have I experienced such a living relationship with Jesus. My prayer experiences are healing, energizing, and encouraging. I never realized that praying for others by focusing on God could do so much for me! Its like God put rocket boosters on my relationship with Him since I joined in prayer support for JC's Girls.

I am blessed! I feel so loved! Jesus is amazing!

Stephen's Story

My story is that I was in high school in 10th grade. Grades started to slip, I was with the way wrong crowd. I longed for purpose. I was missing something. I have an older brother who is 30 and a sister who is 34. I am 20.

My brother became a counselor at a summer week long Christian camp and I thought it would be very stupid to get into something like that. Why should I go? I told myself I would find purpose on my own. I was forced to go. At the camp I was told of Christ, I read the bible for the first time. I learned so much and I found that this was something so amazing and there may be a purpose for me. I started to cry and be broken and I was saved later that night at the camp & baptised by my brother and the minister.

It took a few more years after high school to realize many things and I continue to. I am now involved in Youth Ministry. Leading the youth not to go down the road I once did. I have found my purpose in serving Jesus Christ.

Kristen's Story

My name is Kristen and this is how having not one but two accountability partners changed my life.

I first met Tessa at a park by our house in NTC, she overheard me talking about the Rock and asked me if I attended the Rock church too. I said yes, and we began to talk abouy joining a small group and what there was available. Both of us being military wives we had crazy schedules with our husbands coming in and out. So we decided to start a group at my house. It really just started as a bunch of friends meeting on Wednesdays to fellowship and talk about how God was working in our lives and what it was like to be a military wife.

As Tessa and I got to know each other we got very close and very honest. I was a fairly new believer and she had been doing this for a long time. She told me what an accountability partner was and what they do and asked if I wanted her to be mine. I said "sure". As I began to get closer to the Lord things in my life didn't get easier, they got messier. My husband and I were having terrible marital problems and I was struglling with an addiction to alcohol. My husband and I eventually seperated and I was alone.

Instead of throwing me a pity party and wallowing with me, Tessa spoke truth into my life. She told me that regardless of what happened with my husband and I, I was not to neglect this season of my life. She taught me about God's grace and HIs forgiveness. She held me accountable for my actions and my words. I thank God for sending me such a great messenger of his word.

Soon my husband and I got back together and began taking steps to repair the damage, God has restore our marriage! So, not too long after my husband and I began working to change our life and completely surrender to God, the Lord sent me another accountabilty partner! Nicole was a very good friend of Tessa's and had been through quite alot in her marriage as well. I spent alot of time listening to Nicole and the way she approached marital issues and I really looked up to her and her obedience to God. She has become my accountabilty partner for Godly marriage advice, and just plain level headed Christian common sense. :)

Over the past two years, Tessa, Nicole and I have become the best of friends. We do everything together. Our children are all like cousins and it's like having family here when we are so far from all of our family. We used to call each other the three amigos, but after last weeks service I think I like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Where there is one of us, there are the other two. :)

Accountabilty partners will change your life, it changed mine.

Jana's Story

April 2003 ... contemplating suicide saved my life.

As I sat in a mental hospital, God sent my friends to share their testimonies and their faith with me. The day I left that hospital I went to see Billy Graham. That was the first day I truly felt God loved me and wanted me to live.

Two months after that, my husband asked for a divorce, my friends were transferred to England and I was on my own. So I thought. Before they left I was able to go on a woman's retreat. It was the first time I opened a bible. The first thing I read was Psalm 30. It was everything I was living and going through.

Now my journey hasn't been easy. I have had many obstacles to hurdle. A lot of times tripping and taking awhile to get back up. But.....I always get back up and God's words become louder and more powerful. It's been almost 5 years and I am still jumping a lot of hurdles but now I see them and it becomes easier to get over them.

God keeps placing more Christians in my life and it happens in some pretty crazy ways. The Rock is very new to me. I have only been 3 times but I feel now is the time to give my testimony. I have always prayed the prayer at the end of the service, yet I have not made that walk to the alter. Tonight I was putting Bible tags on my Bible and came across Hebrews 13:7 Remember your leaders who first taught you the word of God. Think of all the good that has come from their lives, and trust the Lord as they do.

Before I left for Church tonight they emailed me to tell me they had just arrived to the States to finalize the adoption of a 7 year old boy. A very long process for them. They have prayed for this day to come for so many years and tomorrow is the day. It is time for me to trust in the Lord as they do.

Nancy's Story

I made a deal with my 21 yr-old son that I'd fix his lunches if he'd go to church. He has not been attending church for 3 years - even though he was raised in church. He faithfully met our family for 6 weeks at our wonderful small church until he wrecked his car & missed our regular Sunday morning service. So he was watching TV one Sunday afternoon at our house (he has his own condo). I asked him if he still wanted to go to church. I said, "I think the Rock has an evening service." I went online & found the info & map. I said, "If we leave right away we can make it." So he said okay & we went.

That was in November. He said he really liked the Rock. So my son & I had a regular date to church every Sunday night. I cook every Saturday and pack up 7 containers of home-cooked meals and drop them at his place when I pick him up every Sunday evening. Then he saw the class coming up for finances. He asked me if I'd take him. It was Jan 13, he said I'm not going to drink or do drugs for 10 years. I thought, I'll take him on Friday nights to help him avoid temptation. So we signed up & attended the whole 6-wk. class. He even called me one Fri. night & said, Mom, I'll be ready at 6:15, don't forget. It was a good thing. I HAD forgotten.

Then he invited his girlfriend to church with us. She made excuses for at least a month. I began really praying for them, with a friend, that God would end their relationship if it didn't honor Him. So one Sunday, she was there ready to go when I picked him up. That was February 24. On the way home I asked her how she liked the service. She said she really liked the part about forgiveness, that it brought a tear to her eye. So I began to share what I knew about new life in Christ, and all. She emailed me & said she had prayed to ask for forgiveness. So the next Sunday she went forward at the altar call and my husband bought her a Bible, because he happened to attend that week. It is so exciting to see God working in ways I never would have imagined!

So my ministry has been cooking & driving 2x/week, & following up with my son's girlfriend. It's not official, but I praise God for the Rock Church.