I have spent my entire life connected to London Gospel Temple. I was dedicated, raised and baptized here and attended regularly until 1986 when I left London for college. After spending several years living in Toronto, and 10 years in Chicago, I returned to London in 2004. I began doing temporary office work for LGT in 2006 and in June 2007 accepted a full-time position as Executive Assistant to Senior Pastor, Rev. Robert Smith. I am a single mother raising my daughter, who is the joy of my life!
I often ask myself how I grew up going to church 4 times a week and still managed at some point in my life to completely turn my back on God. I have repented, and I know God forgives me. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Cor. 5:17) After several years of struggling through day-to-day life, suffering clinical depression and even being suicidal, out of desperation I started attending a church in Chicago whose motto is “helping people find their way back to God”. This described me perfectly. I vividly remember the moment I fell to my knees in my bedroom and cried out to God to help me. He heard me, just as He always does, and “He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.” (Psalm 40:2) My life has not been the same since. I truly believe that God led me back to London and to employment at London Gospel Temple. Who knew the wonderful plans He had for me? I am truly blessed each day!
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