How: In the only Name given among men whereby we must be save, in the name of Jesus.
When: Easter Sunday, 1975, at the age of 17, straight from the pit of Catholicism. Got the Holy Ghost on Good Friday, within 10 minutes of walking back to the prayer room (churches sometimes had prayer rooms in the back, rather than altars up front) after an invitation to seek God was made by the evangelist.
Where: Kinder, Louisiana, pastor B. L. Clark, kindest and finest pastor a sinner could ever have known in coming out of this world into the kingdom of God.
RAF Upper Heyford, England 1982 In the bathtub of a Baptist Air Force chaplain
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
Where: Baptismal tank w/o a heater in Bossier City
When: April 1966
How: In water immersed in Jesus name
By: Pastor L. J. McDaniel
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
I was baptized in water and Pastor Glenn Akridge said Thank you Jesus.
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
November, 1970
Miami, Florida. Pastor: W.H. Dunn. Evangelist: H. H. Phillips
Someone asked if I wanted to be baptized. I didn't even know what baptism was. I was baptized in Jesus' Name. Recieved the Holy Ghost in an RW Schambach meeting in January of the following year.
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"Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him...." -Psa. 37:7
Waiting for the Lord is easy... Waiting patiently? Not so much.
I believe it was 1967. I was baptized in Fairbanks Alaska in the baptistry of the First United Pentecostal Church by Bro. Shoemaker who later became a UPCI Missionary to Madagascar and then after that a Baptist preacher!
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
After a hardy rainstorm filled all the potholes in the streets and alleys, a young mother watched her two little boys playing in the puddles through her kitchen window... The older of the two, a five year old lad, grabbed his sibling by the back of his head and shoved his face into the water hole.
As the boy recovered and stood laughing and dripping, the mother ran to the yard in a panic. "Why on earth did you do that to your little brother?!" she asked as she shook the older boy in anger.
"We were just playing 'church' mommy," he said.
"I was just baptizing him...in the name of the Father, the Son and in....the hole-he-goes. "
Sept. 1953 I was baptized, along with two siblings, in the Lake Lavon spillway. The
lake was not filled at that time. I didn't receive the Holy Ghost until 1958. I was 13
when I was baptized and 18 when I received the Holy Ghost. I thank God for that
humble beginning and the wonderful teaching of my late father as pastor in those
early years. He believed in getting the word of God into your heart so you could
become an overcomer by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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