Victory Chapel

Dee Moynihan

DEE  MOYNIHAN  – LESBIAN NO MORE

I spent three years before I became a Christian involved in a lesbian lifestyle. People find this hard to believe because they see me now happily married with three kids! I grew up with a lack of respect for traditional role models – my parents got divorced when I was twelve and so I never wanted to be married or have kids – I just wanted happiness, which I thought would come with loving someone. In high school I was voted Best Looking and Best Smile, which was ironic because inside I had very bad self esteem and constantly suffered from depression. I thought if I was thin enough and pretty enough I would somehow earn people’s love and then I would be happy. Well, that never happened. 

   After high school I dated many guys, but every relationship crashed within three months. Finally I concluded that guys really were hopeless and awful. My courses in college pushed women’s lib and the gay lifestyle, and so I thought, “Hey, maybe girls are the answer!” I promptly tried it and went on for three years, lonely but determined that lesbianism  had to be the answer. So I went to college every day hoping to find some wonderful relationship, but the few brief ones that I did have were terrible. I never even thought about homosexuality being wrong before God because I was not in it for the sex at all – I just wanted love so I thought it was okay.          .          

            Finally I was confronted with the Gospel, and when I found  out that I was headed for hell unless I chose Jesus to be in charge of my life, I surrendered to God. Without anyone telling me, I knew that my “lifestyle” was wrong. I cried a lot but finally made the decision to drop the whole lesbian thing. The “gay” way of life was a mindset and spirit which had seemed very exciting at the time, so it was a really big decision to give it all up. But when I did, God super-naturally moved in my life, bringing healing to my heart and removing the depression. He put everything in order the way it was meant to be. I really did feel “born again!”

 PALOMA MCLARDY 

As a Spanish teen attending a structured Catholic school I craved a life of adventure. So at age eighteen I fled to the hippie scene in London. When punk music hit the scene, my boyfriend was Joe Strummer, head man of The Clash, a leading English punk group. I took on the outrageous and gaudy look of a punk rocker, and learned to play the drums. I performed with two really wild all-girls groups, The Slits and The Raincoats. We had real fights on stage and people loved it. But my heart grew more restless and unsatisfied; I left the music scene and traveled to India with my boyfriend Dave, looking for meaning. We lived in a commune with a man who claimed to be god, but it didn’t take long to realize he wasn’t.

            Returning to Spain for the birth of our first child, we realized we had no idea how to be good parents. Looking for answers we tried a mix of Hinduism and Christianity, but our frustration just mounted. Back in England, after the birth of our daughter, I heard that Jesus was a real person, and that by simply praying to him you could have a personal relationship with him. We began to hang out with born-again Christians. One day out walking I opened my Bible and read in Romans 2 that I was a sinner like everyone else and realized how patient God had been with me. I felt both guilty and loved all at once. I repented to God. And when I read in Colossians 2:2-3 that “in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” I realized this is what I had been looking for my whole life. After we gave our lives to Christ, Dave and I got married. We moved to the US in 1988 and have been serving God ever since. I have peace in my life now, and my yearning for adventure and excitement has been filled, because nothing compares to the joy of bringing another person to the salvation and truth I found in Jesus!

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TOM CONNORS

Tom Connors

At seventeen years old, I was told who my mother was – a woman I had been told was my aunt. That day my life went to hell. I became angry at the world and at people. I told myself I didn’t need anybody or anything. I became a thief and a drunk, and I was not a pleasant person to be around. Eventually even my marriage fell apart and I didn’t care.  .

When I was forty-two I heard the truth about Jesus – that He loved me and died for my sins. I invited Jesus into my life and let Him change me. God has not failed me in sixteen years. My wife and kids love me and I know how to love them for the first time. God has blessed my family and business, but most of all, He has given me peace in my heart and love for other people.

RUTHANNE LAINE -BULIMIC FREED 

I was raised in a broken home and I had a lot of anger and rejection. At the age of thirteen I was a little chubby, and when I lost some weight, I got so much attention that I stopped eating and got down to 85 pounds. I became anorexic because for the first time I felt that I had control of something – my weight. By the time I got into high school I had been seeing a psychologist for several years for this eating disorder, and was forced to gain weight in order to be released from his care. I got scared because I thought I was blowing up in weight, and so I started throwing up but hid it from everyone. At first I could control the vomiting, but then it controlled me. I ended up getting into drugs  – most people do drugs to get high, I did it because it made me skinny. I became a coke addict, and by the time I was twenty-six my body was broken down from being bulimic for so long. I got severe pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital but I left because I thought I couldn’t pay for it. The doctors told my family not to let me go to sleep because I would drown from the fluid in my lungs. My brother came to pray for me because he thought I was going to die. That’s when it really hit me – I could die and go to hell. He prayed with me and God healed me of pneumonia. I started going to church, and through the preaching and reading the Word of God, I eventually got deliverance from bulimia. At first it got worse – I was throwing up five or six times a day, and I told God I could not live this way the rest of my life. I sought God desperately for healing, and one day God told me I would never throw up again, and that was the end of it. God has totally restored my health. He has become all the things he promised – my healer, my provider, my father. I don’t hate myself anymore, I’m not bitter anymore, and now I’m free to love other people.

GERMAINE CONCEPCION

I grew up in an alcoholic home, which caused me to have anger from my early childhood right on into my teens. The anger turned into violence, stolen cars, drugs, womanizing, alcoholism, and verbal abuse against my family and friends. At the age of eighteen, I decided to sell drugs the rest of my life. I soon became addicted to those very same drugs. When I was twenty-two my friend Spencer was murdered. I was actually the intended victim, and all this made me take a hard look at life and where I was headed. Spencer’s mother was a Christian and she told me that she had forgiven me but that there was someone else who wanted to forgive me–Jesus Christ. I said to God, “If You can change this life, You can have it,” and He did just that! Serving God has been the best experience you could ever ask for in life. Not only am I saved, but over thirty other people have been touched and changed through the testimony of what Jesus can do in one single life