Wyldewood Baptist Church

	Ministry Representative	Rev. Donald Stertz
	Mailing Address	Couriers for Christ 3030 Witzel Ave Oshkosh, WI 54904-9371
	Church Phone	(920)235-5400
	Home Phone	(920)685-6285
	Fax	(920)231-3721
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Don's Testimony 

I was raised in a very religious Lutheran home. We had to go to church every Sunday, even if the weather was bad, and could not stay home unless we were deathly sick. I learned many of the stories in the Bible and even developed a respect for the Bible. I guess I could say that I even loved the Bible and God, but I didn't know God. When we were small, my dad even made us listen to Billy Graham when he was on TV. In fact, my dad used a Lutheran devotional book and many times would make the family sit down around the table and have devotions. As a child, I hated that. I would rather have been playing. But God used those times to plant seed in my heart.

In my teenage years I strayed far from the Bible and God until one night, when I was 19, and in a drunken stupor, I had a very close call with death. At that time this question really hit me, "What would have happened to me if I would have died?" For the next eight months, I was scared of dying and sought for peace of mind and soul. I tried reading the Bible and lived in anguish of soul for those months. Then on March 19, 1972, I was at the bottom of the barrel, loaded down with guilt and sin. I took my Bible, sat down with it, and just let the book open by itself. It opened to Romans the 12th chapter. As I began to read, many of the sinful things I had said and done in the past came to mind. With a broken heart I began to weep and told God something like this, "God, I've messed up the first 19 years of my life, I'm sorry, please forgive me! I want to give the rest of my life to you." At that point something happened! The guilt was gone! The heavy heart was gone! I became a child of God!

Around that same time I had a visit from the youth pastor of the local Baptist church. I had visited that church a few times, then was Scripturally baptized in June of 1972, and have been active in that church ever since.

To God be the glory!

Don's 2012 Itinerary: 

End of Feb:   in WI

March:   in IL (early in month) and CA (late in month- -for  a mission conference)

April:   in NJ and DE (15^th-29^th)

May:   (pending in OH)

June:   in IL and WI

July:   in OH

August:   (pending)

Sept 24- Oct 7:  (Black Sea Coast Campaign in Bulgaria)

Oct : (Wyldewood Mission Conf) in WI and meetings in TN mid to late in month

Nov:  in NJ (and pending meetings)