Miller, Martin, and Lollis Testify

  Mr. John Miller (pictured above) spoke at the Sat., Sept. 2, 2023, Brotherhood meeting at Faith Temple, Taylors, SC. John brought breakfast (eggs, sausage, grits, etc.) and a message. 

“They didn’t have enough faith that Jesus could provide,” John said about the feeding of the 5,000 and Peter walking on water (Matt. 14). Jesus fed over 15,000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish. “They didn’t have just a little sandwich.”

Jesus then made his disciples sail to the other shore. He went to pray by himself on the mountain. Evening came. He was alone. The boat, in the sea’s middle, was tossed by waves and wind. Between 3:00-6:00 a.m., Jesus walked on the water to his disciples. “He decided to test them,” John said.

The disciples saw him walking and cried, “It is a ghost!” Jesus said, “Be of good cheer!” Peter said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”

“He was laser-focused,” John said. “But he started veering off course and began to sink. It wasn’t an immediate sinking but it was an immediate response [by Jesus]. When Peter had his focus on Jesus, his path was right. If we keep our eyes on Jesus all the time, we won’t have to worry about sinking.”  

 
Mr. Jerry Martin (pictured above) gave this testimony on Wed. night, Aug. 30, 2023, at Faith Temple:  

“I know I don’t look it, with the white hair, but I’m 10 years old. I’m 10. On the 4th of Sept. 2013, I died, and it is just a miracle of God that I’m still here today. I had a cardiac arrest — just instant: boom, dead! They told my wife I’d never mow the grass, never carry on a conversation, whatever. They didn’t put a lot of hope on that chart when they talked with her, but just want you to know I’m grateful to God for every breath and every day. 

This has convinced me that his mercy is greater than anything we can imagine, because of all the people that you’d want to bring back from the dead, I’d probably be the last on that list, but God’s mercy is there and his love is there. I can’t let his opportunity go by without saying something. Of all the people who have that type cardiac arrest, their survival rate is 7 percent.
 

   
 Mr. Don Lollis (pictured above) gave this testimony at Faith Temple on Wed. night, Aug. 30, 2023:

About 40 years ago, Don worked at Michelin with Carroll Peterson. Don’s church and other churches invited men to pay their own way to go and help build a church house in Haiti. In processing through customs in Haiti, Don felt chest pain. He then climbed into a flatbed truck for a bouncy ride to his hotel. The hotel elevator was broken. 

“I had to climb 4 flights of stairs,” Don said. He was still hurting when a doctor came to check him and said, “I think you’ve had a heart attack.”

Because of that heart attack, he had to walk (not be carried) downstairs. There was no ambulance to take him to a hospital — he went by truck.

“I had to lay down in the back of a flatbed truck. You can imagine what the road felt like,” Don said. “At the hospital, they put me on oxygen from a tank. I lay there all night.”

He and those on the trip had signed for special insurance coverage. A jet plane with a pilot, co-pilot, and two nurses came for Don. They flew to Florida. He spent 10-12 days in a hospital. A doctor said he couldn’t fly home on a commercial plane for he needed a nurse with him. A charter plane flew Don, his wife Sarah, his sister Varnell, and a nurse to Greenwood. They drove home. 

“I was out of work maybe a month,” Don said. His heart doctor soon let him work. Michelin sent him to another doctor who said, “Don, anyone who has a heart attack like you had in a third-world country does not make it.”  

“So, not only did the Lord see me through that process and everything and help me to draw closer to him, but I’m still here 40 years later. I’ve been tremulously blessed. All things have not been perfect… trials and troubles… My first wife passed away in an auto accident; second wife, Mary, just absolutely deteriorated down to hardly anything, then passed away. But for some reason, the Lord keeps keeping me here… the bottom line is: I had been tremendously blessed. I think about that occasionally. I live alone. I’ll be sitting there by myself and get to thinking about things in the past… How in the world did I make it from there back to here?… I’m very thankful for what the Lord has done for me. And there’ve been a lot of people down through the years that reached out to help me as I was going through trying times… losing sisters, and father, and wives… There’ve been people there to be supportive of me. Carroll Peterson is one of them… I think everybody here is possibly going through difficult, hard times. Mine are no bigger than yours. But the bottom line is: The Lord has been with us all.”

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