The Story Behind Journey To Christ Ministry

In the summer of 2020, in the early morning, I (Robert) was sitting outside of our camper at Knob Noster State Park. While reading my Bible, there was a Booming voice! I heard, “You will own a campground and use it to spread the Gospel”.

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*Prior to this, nothing supernatural had ever happened to me. My wife had often shared some of her experiences throughout her life, and had told me about them. However, it always seemed rather unbelievable to me and I would brush it off.

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Becoming a believer, I had to acknowledge the supernatural was real.  It is clearly written in God’s word that we struggle not with flesh and blood, ...but with principalities and spiritual hosts (Ephesians 6:12). It was hard to grasp for me.*

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But in that moment, I somehow just knew it had to be God speaking to me. I walked into the camper with a look on my face. My wife, Cherie, described it as, "if I had seen a ghost". I asked her if she had heard the voice too, fully expecting her to say yes. When she said no and asked what was wrong, I replied with, "I...think God... spoke to me?"  She inquisitively asked, "Well, what did He say?"  Which I replied, “You will own a campground and use it to spread the Gospel”. My wife took a short pause as she stared at me and her eyebrows up and replied, "Okay."

 

The more we talked about it, my whole family and I became excited, and have been on our Journey to God’s plan for us ever since.

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To make a long story short, we tried to be obedient immediately (From attempting to buy campgrounds, buying land to build a campground from the ground up, to taking over an already established one...etc.)

We made many, many, many mistakes - experienced closed doors, heartaches, confusion, disappointment, sadness, embarrassment and sometimes feeling pressure to hurry things along. But we never wavered from our faith in God and His promises.  Through all these trials, there were lessons learned; learning His will over our own wants, hearing His voice and not just our hearts or minds. There were humbling moments; patience and not rushing things, the stripping of pride, His will over our own, and that if there was no peace, it was not of Him. Yet, through all the trials and even during them, we experienced many, many, many, many - Blessings!

 

(The detailed chapters of our Journey's story will be partitioned up in our Blog over time and grow as God continues this story)

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We learned that these were necessary steps for this story to occur according to God's will; and the name Journey to Christ came to us from these experiences.

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One major thing that happened many times on this journey, was that through our church sermons, it was as if God spoke to us directly.  It was always exactly about what we were going through that week (and every week) - helping us, guiding us, and encouraging us.  This one sermon in particular was about really stepping out in faith.  So, as another confirmation for us, after discussion and prayer, we took the biggest step of faith that we could think of next.  Giving it all to God, and putting it into His hands. We decided to sell our house and move into our camper full-time so that we could be ready to move when God called us to.

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With every new day, Let the Journey begin...