MY BIO: I am 65 years old and have been married 40 years. … We have 3 sons and nine grand children and one great grandson. I became a Christian at the age of 36 and my husband John was saved about 9 months later. …I love the Lord and I love writing poetry. Some of my poetry isn't Christian but about family. I am retired and I do a lot of fishing in the summer. I also make cloth dolls that are called "Gospel Kid" dolls and give them to whom ever the Lord leads me to give them to. …Bonnie L. Fry

MY TESTIMONY: I was not raised in a Christian home. We went to a liberal church on Easter Sunday some times. I grew up with a very filthy mouth and a bad attitude. I got married when I was twenty. We had two sons. We were married about two and a half years when my husband left me for other women. About six months after my divorce was in progress I met John. Six months later we were married.

After several years of marriage we became involved with the Jehovah's Witnesses. This left me so confused that I didn't know what I believed. (By the grace of God we left their teaching.)

I started going out with a girl friend, drinking on weekends. My life was falling apart and I was getting to the point that I hated everything and everyone. I would tell people that I didn't believe that there was a God. On the outside I put up a hard exterior, a "could care less" attitude, when all the time inside I knew there was a God and I was running scared.

At the time we were living in Ft. Wayne and we thought that if we moved into the country things would get better. We moved to Green Center, Indiana and wouldn't you know it? There were Christian people living all around us. When I called my girl friend and told her that we were surrounded by Christians, she said, "Watch out or you will become one of them." We both laughed. I told her the church would fall down if I went into it.

I had a very dear neighbor lady whose name is Sandy. I would go down to her house and tell her all my problems, trying to watch my mouth, because I knew that she went to church. Sandy never told me the Gospel message with words. She just lived it with her life and her music. Sandy's husband tried talking to me about God, but I always told him I had enough trouble in my life without hearing about God.

I didn't know it at the time, but later after I was saved Sandy told me that she had been praying for my salvation and for my marriage. (Thank you, Sandy.) At the time my husband and I were talking about getting a divorce. We had been married about six years.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I lost the babysitter I had, and the Methodist Pastor's wife started to baby-sit our youngest son while I worked. The other two boys were in school. One day I needed her to watch all of them because school was closed. I called her and she said she would have to ask Pastor Garman. He said yes, if I would come to church on Sunday. Well what else could I do but say yes?

Come Sunday morning I got up out of my nice warm bed and trucked off to Church, cussing all the way. I don't remember the message, only the call to salvation at the end of the message. I stood at my seat and cried and cried. I wanted to go forward, but my feet were like lead. I couldn't move. I went home and told my husband," I am going back next Sunday. I never heard a preacher like him. "

I went back next Sunday and for six weeks I was under conviction, and for six weeks I stood at my seat and cried. I wanted to go forward, but my feet were like lead. I couldn't move.

On April 18, 1977, I got up went to work where a Christian girl I worked with had been witnessing to me. She saw me standing at my mold machine crying. She came over to me and I told her I knew that I was going to go to hell. She told me to go talk to the Pastor. I left work and went to Pastor Garman's house. We went into his living room and talked. I knelt at his piano bench and asked the Lord into my heart. The Spirit of God entered into my heart and I became a new creation. Pastor Garman told me later that he was suppose to be in school that day but felt that something was going to happen and was lead by the Lord to stay home. When I got saved he said then he knew why the Lord led him to stay home.

The Lord saved me, my marriage, and 9 months later He saved my husband.

The Lord said He would never leave me nor forsake me. And He never has. He is as real to me today as He was the day He gave me the faith to believe in Him and to receive Him as my Lord and Savior. I give Him all the glory honor and praise because He is the only one who deserves it.

Thank You Lord

Bonnie L. Fry

Matthew 7:24 ~ Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.