Growth in The Presence of Love

 

            Pastor Monsy Gallardo 

In January of 1988, a young single mother, homeless and alone, walked into a church and felt as if a blanket of love had covered her.  Over the seven years that followed, that church became her family, and church became a training ground.  It was a Sabbath keeping church that believed in keeping the Holy Days but also believed in Jesus Christ and the workings of the Holy Spirit.  It was a Judeo-Christian Church.  

Every Sabbath, I was instructed to bring a notebook, a pen, and a bible. I learned that God was love.  That was the love I had felt in the ways of my church family. From the very first day, they had shown me God, in everything they did to help me.  And from the training I received, my love for learning about God grew.  Sadly, through events that happened, that original church is no longer together.  It splintered into many daughter churches, and I ended up moving away to another state.  However, that was where my heart for ministry began and grew.  And the greatest ministry of all is sharing with others the truth of God's Word-Jesus.  There is just no other way to see Father God and experience LOVE like I did that first day.