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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

A
t this point in my life, I realized that I needed
the Lord Jesus as my Savior. I could no

longer continue living this miserable life, so

I started watching television services. At that time, there
weren’t very many of them on, but I saw one I liked. It

was called the Queen's Way Cathedral, with Pastor
Ruthledge. It was quite a distance, but I took two

different buses to get there. I attended there for a while
because the preaching was good—until suddenly, a

scandal broke out in the church. The pastor was gay. I

left and was told about another church called Oakwood
Wesleyan, named after John Wesley. In other words, it

was a Wesleyan church in 1988. Unknown to me, a split
was taking place. One half of the church went one way,

leaving the other half behind. And so began my
Christian journey.

One weekend, someone invited me to a crusade. What I

didn’t know was that it was a Seventh-day Adventist
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