Posts with the category “faces-of-faith”

My daughter Samantha and I moved from the outskirts of Austin from a small town named Pflugerville. After living there for nine years and facing one of the hardest decisions of my life, I decided to s...  Read More

I was very fortunate to grow up in a Christian home and went to a Christian school through elementary school. I asked Jesus into my heart when I was in Kindergarten. I was in a Bible study with the sa...  Read More

My wife Lori & I moved back to Texas in 2017 after being away for thirty years. We felt God confirm His desire for us to return to Texas when we heard a sermon on The Good Samaritan entitled “move clo...  Read More

My name is Stacy, and I'm a wife and mother of two wonderful boys. We've been members of Faith Bible for four years now. I was baptized as a baby and raised in a Christian household, but the Holy Spir...  Read More

Hi, Faith Bible family! I want to take this opportunity to share the great things that God has done to set me free from past hurts and sins through Faith’s Re:generation ministry. I am the son of a Ch...  Read More

I am fascinated with redemption. This fascination encompasses a broad range of areas including spiritual things, fixing “stuff”, and up-cycling. One of my favorite past times is to turn rotting wood i...  Read More

To begin my story about how God led me to serve in Faith Kids, let’s rewind to December 9, 2018. That was the day we found out my mom had stage 4 lung cancer. She was previously healthy and had never ...  Read More

Amazing does not even describe where I am and who I’ve become over the past nine years that I’ve spent falling in love with and pursuing God. But the road leading up to that point was a twisted and bu...  Read More

Hi, church!  My wife Cheri’ and I moved to The Woodlands in 2012.  We visited many churches but none of them felt like home until we attended Faith Bible.  The family that we found here has been such ...  Read More

I come from a family in which two parents provided a loving household with a focus on good morals, principles, and discipline, but not necessarily Jesus or church.  Whether it was academics or sports ...  Read More

Growing up I was fortunate enough to be in a Christian household. I was taught from an early age by my parents that Christ was at the center of our lives and was instilled with the morals and values t...  Read More

God’s been teaching me a lot the past few months.  I’ve been in a period of waiting.  (Waiting is not something I do well...) But I am waiting none the less, all because I did something that I clearly...  Read More

My story begins even before me....with my parents. Blue collar workers that didn’t finish high school and only attended church for Easter. I was 10 years old when my father died at the age of 48, from...  Read More

My family is 100% not a musically inclined family. Nevertheless, in fourth grade when we were told we were going to be able to pick an instrument for 5th grade, I was bouncing off the walls with excit...  Read More

Growing up in a wonderful Christian family was truly a gift. I knew about and loved Jesus for as long as I can remember. We attended church regularly, I was involved with Christian youth activities, a...  Read More

In November of 2021, I moved to The Woodlands from Covington, GA to be near my daughter (the Osterman’s). Since my daughter and her family attend Faith Bible, I have made my home here.I have loved Jes...  Read More

One thing I know for sure - God has always had a purpose for me. Whether I strayed from Him or walked with Him, He has always been there leading me to do things I normally felt unqualified to do.Growi...  Read More

It’s interesting when you finally figure out that Fear, and Performance to the safe standard of those around you, has been a controlling agent in your life. That was me.I first heard about Albania in ...  Read More

My name is Mona Hook and I am severely near-sighted; I cannot see things far away without the aid of corrective lenses. Although I have struggled all my life seeing far ahead, I am grateful that hinds...  Read More

Growing up in the Houston area, I was fortunate to have parents who took us to a liturgical church when I was a small child. I learned about the love of God and His goodness. However, it was at an Fel...  Read More

My name is Jacob Fehrle. I am eleven years old and in the sixth grade. I have one sister named Abigail. She is four years older than me but I’m taller than her. We have two dogs and two cats. I play t...  Read More

“I sleep with a Bible under my pillow every night.”  Those words reeled me in.  I met Isabella at a “Practicing English” aperitivo (Italian happy hour) one evening.  We advertised our free service to ...  Read More

I was raised in a Christian home, but the church I attended was very legalistic. I became a Christian when I trust Jesus at 12 years old, but I always felt like I needed to constantly be good enough t...  Read More

Throughout my life, there have been seasons where I felt as though I was in a standstill, holding pattern. A major life change preceded each season.The first season took place after completing a Theat...  Read More

Hello, church! My name is Barbara, I am 24 years old, and I have been apart of Faith Bible Church since December 2020. That was when I moved back to Texas after graduating nursing school at Liberty Un...  Read More

When I was younger, I was always curious about God and Jesus, but I didn't know much about Him. However, as I got older and my family changed denominations, I started to know God more.In my early teen...  Read More

I grew up in a Christian home. My home away from home and safe space was always my church, and I was there whenever the doors opened. I met my husband James in a Young Adult singles group while we wer...  Read More

I grew up in a Christian home. My parents quoted Scripture to me, we went to church, and I asked Jesus into my heart when I was five. My story isn't necessarily how I came to know Jesus, but how I cam...  Read More

About the age of 26, I felt as if I was struggling to live a normal live. I had just been released from serving only eight disappointing months in the US Navy. Also, my Grandmother, whom others and I ...  Read More

I’ve been a believer all my life.  I grew up Catholic, confessing my sins regularly, but I never felt that a personal relationship with God was possible. I learned to find validation in what I could a...  Read More

I was born at a very young age!  I was premature and weighed in at 2 pounds6 ounces.  I had a rough start in life.  Oh, I did survive.  I was raised in Tyler behind the Texas “Pinecone Curtain.”I am t...  Read More

Meet Greg Cryer.My name is Greg Cryer, and God has recently showed me that I chose, and sometimes still choose, legalism.A simple definition of legalism is the belief that we can make ourselves accept...  Read More

An area where God is helping me live by faith in Him is in overcoming loneliness. I started life with the greatest advantage possible; Godly parents who taught me the gospel and prayed for me constant...  Read More

 Say yes to yes…that was the motto that our family took on during our move to The Woodlands a few years ago. Despite being sad about leaving, we were committed to quickly putting down new roots. With ...  Read More

The more that I struggle, the more God has become increasingly evident in my life. Three months after the Covid pandemic hit, my wife and I were both laid off. This was incredibly devastating to our p...  Read More

I was raised in a Baptist church in Fort Worth, and I answered the altar call around age 8. I believe I did that more because it was expected of me than understanding that I needed a relationship with...  Read More

I’m Donna Wilson. I’ve been married to my husband Darin for 19 years. We have four children between the ages of 9-17 who were all born within the first eight years of our marriage. Hormones from pregn...  Read More

My wife, Diane, and I have attended Faith Bible since 1991. We were both raised in “graceless” denominations and stopped attending church in college. We concluded that we could never be good enough to...  Read More

The greatest evidence that my God is incredibly gracious with me is tracking how my stubbornness always fails. For example, I spent years of my life studying and chasing geology as a career because my...  Read More

Titus 2:3-5 says, “ Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,  so that they may encourage the young women to lo...  Read More