At the age of 35, I was saved out of a life of drugs, alcohol and (3) packs of 'Marlboro's a day.  Threatened with self extermination, literally dying and knowing it, I was looking for help.  The world wasn't  offering much in the way of getting this monkey off my back.   My second wife of two years, Niki ( I was doing a good job in driving her off like I did with my first wife), she belonged to the catholic church, I was a heathen to the max.  We had cable TV installed into the house mostly so we could see movies. However, Niki while surfing the channels came across TBN and on it were people giving their testimonies of how they were all messed up on drugs and such.  Some were guys like me saying how they couldn't quit this mess and how they went to Jesus for help.  They talked about how the Lord took all their addictions away and they were made clean. How I  wished that would happen to me but I had no idea how to find this Jesus they talked about.  Did I mention my wife Niki was a catholic, she was going to a charismatic mass on Friday night.  What she told me  when she got home sounded  a lot like what happened to the guys on TBN that were set free.
     So on Friday night June 17, 1981 at about 6:30 PM, I found myself in the little catholic church on Perris Blvd in what used to be Sunnymead,CA.  There was a bunch of older ladies there, doing what I now know was worship and praying in tongues, I didn't have a clue and was about to head for the door...but something  inside stopped me.  I just looked up at the cross on the wall over the alter and said, " God if you are real, I need help, I can't stop this mess in my life, it's killing me and I'm scared.  So if you can, take this away...".  The rest is history; the power of God came on me and totally took everything that was bad in my life out.  It was such an overwhelming experience, I don't know where I went, but when I came back to myself, I was crying like a baby with my arms straight up and shouting at the top of my lungs,"Thank you Jesus,Thank you Jesus", over and over for I don't know how long.  From that moment on I have never had a desire for cigarettes, alcohol or any of the junk I was hooked on Jesus truly set me free  
      Now that I was set free, I had this overwhelming desire to know this Jesus Who made me free.  So the following Sunday Niki and I started attending a Word of Faith Church in the area.  This hunger to know God has taken us through bible college, ordination and to places to see the Glory of God in action.  Now we live in the High Desert of California with almost thirty years of Christian living and a lot of knowledge to share.
In His Name; Larry and Niki Rogers, Amen