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Praise God For Miracles!
November 28, 2007
Hello My name is Janine VanDenBerg
I am a full blooded American Indian, Tsimshian tribe!I am currently living in Roanoke, Virginia. I was an alcoholic, crack addict, drug dealer and prostitute for 18 years! When I was 38 years old I was sitting watching my boyfriend smoke crack and drink with his friends off of the money that I had to make on the streets! They did this for one week! I would have to go out and make money so they could continue to party! Well usually I was right along with them, but that week I chose to not participate in the party! So on Saturday there was a knock st the door and it was two women! I saw that they were neatly dressed and I flew out the door! They were someone sober to talk to finally! They were going around neighborhood that they knew and the older lady had at one time lived in that street!Praise God! They were looking for people to attend a program at there church for new Christians! I like I said was happy to speak to sober women and found out that the one had gone to Calvin College in Michigan! That was the rival college that I had done on semester at! Hope College is where I went! I was also raised in Holland , Michigan! God is so awesome! At that time I had started attending a Mormon Church because they were the only ones coming to the door! I had no idea they were a cult!But I did not like how they would not answer my questions about the Bible! So praise God I started going to this program called Alpha program! By Nicky Gumble! Totally awesome! I became a member of their church and they started an outreach that has now stopped but it was to focus on homeless and prostitutes and addicts and lonely! We would go out and have picnics on the health departments lawn and socialize with these lost souls! You have to make friends with them first and gain their trust before you talk to them about God! This went on for about 3 years! But I too as a new Christian used music to get their attendtion and guess who the singer was!!!! YES, Carman!I wanted a very intimate relationship with God so I could pass on what those two blessed woman introduced me to! God's Love!!!I am now at another church a bigger church that I knew I cold grow at spiritually I have gone with them twice to the LA Dream Center and that has what has me going to crack houses, bars, where the prostitutes work, juvenile detention homes, prisons and Yes, Churches so that the congregations will get motivated and start doing God's work out here! They are sometimes in their comfort zones and they are missing out on the most blessed part of being a Christian and that is winning souls to God! I am also busy with the Manna Ministry program that feeds people 1 box of food a month and it is amazing because most that come there are the people I use to party with! I am also getting involved with Let Go and let God ministries based in Salem Virginia! They are an awesome couple! Christopher is an x meth dealer and Sharron (Sam) use to be in Witchcraft! They befriend drug dealers and wiccans and on their saturdays take them out to a farm that Christopher's dad owns in trouteville and they go paint balling to break the ice! After wards they have a worship time and it is truly amazing! This past week I have been trying to locate a 15 year old couple and the girl is pregnant and they are sleeping outside! haven't yet located but God is getting me closer! Meanwhile the people I am asking questions about them I get to witness also! There is also a young lady from Penn. State that has contacted me via e-mail and she asks for Prayer because she believes she is demonic! God is so awesome! I now consider myself one of the wealthiest women in the world! I am able to wake up each morning and study and pray in freedom and I then can ask God to use me in what ever way he needs me! I am His tool! And then go out in the world and plant seeds What more can I ask for? God is so awesome! I am so blessed and I am forgiven of my past so I can use it as a tool to reach out to others that most cannot reach! I understand living on the streets! I have died 4 times in my life and 3 out of the 4 I was not saved , so God did not have to keep me here! Praise God! I would not trade my life for any amount of money! My spiritual freedom and relationship with God is so precious to me! You have a wonderful day and God bless! I have sites all over the internet! Google Janine VanDenBerg but watch out for the Doctor! LOL!God gets all the glory and I also learned that : Paul would not have been Paul had he NOT been SAUL first! God is so awesome!
Praise God!
Your sister in Christ!
Janine Marie Palma VanDenberg
a little some thing I wanted to add to my testimony! Please copy and paste this site and you will be in total awe, Little Logan had me crying!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdZwitrNoY
Location: Roanoke, VA, United States
Website: http://www.myspace.com/janinepalmavandenberg
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