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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2015

FEATURE

THE STAR

GEORGE HENRY

STAR Writer

Name:

Nicholas Dixon

Church:

Haddington New

Testament Church of God in

Trelawny.

Position:

Life Builders president.

How long have you been

saved?

I have been saved

since January 2008.

How did you get your

conviction?

I was attend-

ing a fasting at church one

Tuesday when the Spirit of

the Lord moved and a dea-

con called me to the altar

and ministered to

me.

R i g h t

there and then, tears filled my

eyes and I accepted the Lord.

What has been your most

challenging moment since get-

ting saved?

I am a family man.

I am married. There was a time

in my life when I needed a job

and it seemed as if I was never

going to get one. There was a

time when I felt like an infidel,

when I could not afford to take

care of my family.

I was at a very low point in

my life. I started questioning

God. I asked Him how long my

financial trial would continue. I

asked what I did to deserve

that. Being unable to provide

for my wife and my son was a

real struggle for me.

I could not provide for them

how I wanted to. Sometimes, It

was difficult to look at them,

knowing I couldn’t afford cer-

tain things.

What has been your most

miraculous moment since get-

ting saved?

I assisted my pastor

with baptism. There was a man

in my community who was

mentally ill. We were having a

series of baptisms at church

when he walked into the church

one Sunday morning and told

us that he wanted to be bap-

tised.

We decided to baptise him. I

remember walking into the pool

and persons, even church mem-

bers, started to walk away. say-

ing that we were baptising a

‘madman’.

I saw the miraculous hands of

God work. He might have

walked into the pool as a so-

called ‘madman’, but he came

out of the pool as a brand-new

man.

Since the day he got baptised,

he lived an exemplary life in

the community. He stopped

doing the things he used to do,

and he attended church regu-

larly. I believe God saved him

for a purpose. He died last

October. He was found dead in

his room.

Message to Christians:

The

struggles are real. Struggles will

always come like giants, but we

we should take God at His

word. If God tells you to do

something, do it.

Sometimes, you will not get

the approval of others. You

must understand that the crowd

will not be with you all the time.

Always remember that the glory

of God is not necessarily in the

crowd.

As long as God is directing

your path, stick to His word,

trust in Him with all your heart,

and He will pull you through the

struggles.

Message to non-Christians:

God loves you with an everlast-

ing love. He loves us so much,

that He sent his only Son to die

for all of us. My word to you is

to seek the Lord before you die.

Oftentimes, sinners say ‘tomor-

row’ or ‘a next time’ when they

are asked to surrender to the

Lord, but none of us is guaran-

teed a tomorrow or a next time.

So now is the time to accept

Him. Accept Him before it is too

late.

Favourite bible scripture:

Psalm 116

Favourite lines of favourite

songs

: “

I have somebody with

me to share my heavy load

and “

Hanging by

the

last

thread of hope

.”

Feedback:

pehenrya@hotmail.com

God saved

a ‘madman’

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10:30am Holy Eucharist:

St. Joseph's - Innswood

11:00am Mattins:

Holy Trinity/ St.9842

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Town

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Mathew's - Mount

Moreland.

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Rectors

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ANGLICAN

700

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