Shalom, brothers and sisters,

My real name is duane, not capitalized, because I am not an extra special, or "The" Duane. I found the way to the truth just a few short years ago, at the tender age of 62 and one half. I was raised, until 16, in a home that half-heartedly proclaimed a pentecostal type faith. One thing about those years that I am thankful for is the moral discipline I learned, albeit, I didn't practice after leaving home. That discipline, I believe, is the reason that I continued with a feeling of a hope of something better.

I found this website, quite by accident??,and the first thing that came to my mind was"What kind of new blasphemy is this"?,for I had never even heard of the name of YHWH. It took me about 2 months of curious reading, before I realized some truth had been revealed to me. I thank Yahweh that through the years He had been protecting me from myself.

There are some things that are discussed in the forums that I don't have a firm grasp of. Some, that people are firmly believing, that others just as firmly, don't believe. I can usually see both sides of the issues, but cannot always decide between them. I know much is being revealed to us all in scripture and language study, but I think there are many things that have not been.

I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina and have been desirous of fellowship. I know there are other believers around, and I know of some that might be as close as 50 miles from me. One of my weaknesses is opening doors to new friends, something I need help with. I can speak with confidence, but when it comes to becoming involved with others I hold back. I know this isn't right and I need to change. It's a major problem, because I know I wont be a fruitful witness until I do. I ask for prayer from you all in this respect. I do have a love for many of you in the forums, and I want to extend that love to all. For to many years I have lived in this sick world, without trusting in others. I do want to thank brother EliYah for his tireless work on this site, it has been a blessing for me, and I am sure for many others.

Yahweh's grace and love be with you all, in Yahushua's name, duane




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Greetings Duane,

I enjoyed reading your post. My name should be apparent from my userid, and i'm from East Ridge, TN, about 55mi west of the NC state line. What town are you close to?

My religious background is mostly Baptist, but in college i started visiting some pentecostal churches, because i didn't think the Baptists had enough "heart". After college i became a member of the Radio Church of G-d, which became Worldwide COG. After they rejected the Sabbath and a lot of other truths we had learned, i left there and became an independent, and eventually learned about the Names from a man i met in the local assembly.

I am currently "unlearning" much (most of it dealing with "His Timing"), and learning not to be dogmatic about a lot of things. But i tend to react with my own effected dogmatism when someone gets dogmatic with me. By now we "should all be teachers", but "none of us knows anything as he should".

p.s. I clicked on the smileyface icon " " when i created this post; i don't know why it inserted a frownyfact icon " " instead. Just ignore it.

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Chuck Baldwin

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Hello everyone,

My name is Heather and I'm a mom to two wonderful kids. I am now 1year faithful!! I live in upstate NY with my two dogs,cat, husband, kids, and brother. Before I came to faith I was into Wicca/New Age stuff and attending a UnitarianUniveralist Church , I attended the xmas mass there with my son as a "Cultural Experience" when the Holy Spirit started knocking so hard on my head I thought I was going nuts. After about three months of crying and praying and thinking it was all post partum depression I caved! I gave my heart to Yah! After some church hopping and allowing myself to be lead by Yah I came to a small homefellowship. So to say the least Im still new to all this. I am the only believer in my home, however my husband is very supportive (most of the time) I can see that Yah is softening his heart. He completely agrees with me raising the kids in faith and can see that the Word leads to a healthy life. So... thats me. Im on this journey with my family in tow.


in sisterly Love,

Heather

My name is Kennie Cagle. My family and I live in Seagoville, TX. We attend Shabbat services with the Assembly of Yahvah in Emory, TX. John Robinson is the pastor there, some of you my have heard his wife Tammy's music.

I very seldom post. I tend to read and try to glean from others.

I have started a ministry for men (similar to "promise keepers) of the faith. We are calling it ben YHWH. WE will have a newsletter and hopefully later this year a men's conference. We are focusing on the issues of being better husbands, fathers and leaders. If you are interested you can email me at benyhwh@sbcglobal.net

Some of the those involved are Roger Norman, Ft Worth TX, Jerry Healen Atlanta TX, John Robinson Emory TX, Assembly of Yahweh Cisco TX, David Wendell Ava MO Danny Arthur West Virginia, Donnie Lucas West Virginia and many others.


Shalom Aleichem,
Kennie

Hi,
I don't post here too often, but always enjoy coming to read and getting your perspectives, always very helpful. I've been greatly blessed by some of you.
My name is Stew Blears, I live in Cheshire, UK. Don't know of many others here in England who have the same understandings, my wife and a couple of friends, thats it. We are a congregation of 2 for now.
My wife is Mexican, of Jewish ancestry. We met in 99 and have two little ones, Matthew & Ruth.
I'm an illustrator by trade, but in 94 I opened a 'fish & chip restaurant, and dug a big hole for myself, which took me 11 years to climb out of.
I retired last September, in order to study & keep the law - which had become virtually impossible since opening my business.
I'm 52, spent 20 years in the famous WWCG! and left in 94. Lost my way
for a few years 'till a friend gave me a booklet explaining about YHWH's name, { I wont mention who published it, but salvation is only obtainable through them apparently!}, but it got me started on the right path, isnt life full of stepping stones.
I represent the UK ministry of a small group of sabbatarians established
by Dan Love, in Atlanta. I feel that his teachings are compatable to most that I read here, so I feel blessed to visit this site. I'm still trying to work out who knows who and who's who, so this section is very helpful for creating a feeling of harmony. Good idea. I look forward to getting to know more of you as time goes by.

Love in YHWH
Stew

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Greetings Chuck,

Thanks for the reply. I,m in Hendersonville, which is about 22 miles South of Asheville, and 30 miles north of Greenville, SC. I looked on the map, ans saw that East Ridge is in the Chattanooga area. Thats a smart piece from here(in mountain lingo).

I talked to a man a while back who I believe is somewhere near Waynesville, NC, who had a church history similar to yours, and he has, I assume, a small group based on what Jim Myers of Paleotimes teaches. Maybe you know him, I plan on calling him to find out where they gather. If its in Waynesville, it will be about 60 miles. It might be in Asheville from the info I received, but his phone number is closer to Waynesville.

Well, gotta go, talk to ya later, stay in His Word, duane

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Stew ,

Have you contacted the Congregation of Yahweh http://www.congyah.co.uk/news.asp out of Nottingham England? They are a real old and nice group spreading the truth about Yahweh and Yahshua, the sabbath, and the feast as well as many other topics in England.

My name is Darrell K Whitfield from Mathis/Orange Grove area in South Texas. I attend the congregation Melech Yahshua that meets at the cabinet makers shop that has been converted into a prayer and study hall at the corner of Verne and Cedar in Rockport Texas north of Corpus Cristi about 30-45 minutes. Our leader Mike is in need of healing from lung cancer as he started chemotherapy this week. Please help me pray for him. See other prayer request from our congregation in "Prayer Request" forum.

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Hello Darrell.
I have petitioned YHWH for your friend, and yes I will check the prayer requests.
It was very kind of you to think of us. Yes I have some details from this particular group, but feel at some variance with their teachings.
If I remember correctly, they hold with the 'trinity', and speak in tongues, just two of their beliefs I would not be in agreement with, and felt therefore, it would not be wise to seek fellowship there, but I reserve judgement, and may reconsider.
I suppose I still have some resistance to organised 'religion' that I have to deal with before I consider allowing anyone but YHWH to instruct me.

King regards
In YHWH
Stew

Hi All,
We live in central Missouri surrounded by many Assemblies within an hour away which we are blessed. I have been in the faith since I was 11 and that was in 71. Started out at Worldwide, left in 93 went to CGI and then COGOM after that and then floated about for several years. We consider ourselves all in the body and do like to make a commitment to a congregation as we have a ministry to do and we like to be free to make choices to visit the ones who have no fellowship or who are depressed, distressed and feel alone. We have been affiliated with the SN groups since 1997.

We have 4 children ages 4-28, home educate, and been married since 1977. He became a pastor in 1997.

We work out of our home and write scripture studies for those asking for them. Not much else going around here with the exception of awaiting warmer weather here in Missouri.

Katy

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Heather,
I had to comment on your info line on the little icon when you post. It's so cute breast feeding sling wearing bed sharing. We have the 4 although one is 28, one 22 and one 18 and then there is the 4 year old. He has slept with us as the others did. When we built this house 19 years ago we made the master bed room big enough to get a king size and a twin on the side. We have a refrigerator and this is our living room. We all pile in on the bed and watch tv or videos. The 4 year old loves Good Eats with Alton Brown and we are all cooks so this is entertainment for us. It makes for a closer family. I have always felt so sorry for little babies that have to sleep all by themselves so sad.

Katy

Katy,

I hear ya! I worked with new moms teaching them how to be a "natural" parent. Yah gave us women the instict to care for our children, to want to always(well almost) be with them. We stopped caring for our children the way they should be cared for and started listening to man tell us how to do it. NOW look whats happened. We don't even feel confortable enough with our own bodies to give birth on our own. We let the " doctor" to it. ARGGG. Its nice to know there are other earthymamma's on the site.

In sisterly love,
Heather

Shalom Katy,

I am just wondering how you were able to be married at 11 years old! I think it is a typo...

Do you know John and Suzie (don't want to give their last name on www), they have a child who is 12 now. They are farmers with goats and John works part time at a buffalo ranch. They are wonderful people.

Heather,

I think you and I would get along well, I too am a bed sharing mom, homeschooling my child. I am so glad I had my baby at home (11 years ago!), completely natural, no docs, no meds and no invasive procedures. My mid wife, her assistant, and their secretary, and their herbalist assistant all became good friends of ours.


I really enjoy your posts,

angeL

angel and katy,

I mentioned on another discussion maybe we should ask Eliyah to start up a women's forum. Older women are to teach the younger. I don't feel there is an out let for that any where. Women are TOO isolated these days. Mothers, especially those in faith need support from other women to keep them going.

Heather

Greetings,
I got the error fixed. I was married in 77 not 71. I am dyslexic and have to proof read carefully and sometimes I look for switched letters.

Katy

As most of you can guess, my name is Matt. I was born and raised in Bakersfield California. I come from a modest past, we were not rich people. We were not dirt poor either, but none the less my family and I struggled just as many of you have in your lives. I come from a broken home and a very disfunctional family. At a young age I suffered physical, and emotional abuse. At the same time I was being abused, throw a divorce, an eviction, and a terminally ill father into the equation, and you have a good idea of my childhood. I have some good memories, but the bad out-weigh the good. After we were evicted from our home and my parents divorced mom raised me and my brother on her own for about a year. We survived on her working and the much needed welfare we recieved. Mom re-married when I was 8 years old and her new husband moved us from a low class community to a rather nice one. The only problem was, dad was sick, on disability and living in section-eight areas on welfare. I was constantly bouncing back and forth from a nice area to a ghetto. Well, to say the least the ghetto attitude prevailed because I couldn't walk around dad's neighborhood with a suburban attitude. Growing up with 2 homes like that is confusing for a kid because in the midst of all the problems you can lose your identity. By the age of 12/13 I was doing drugs, drinking, and selling reefer at junior high school. I never got caught because I knew when I was being watched so I would stop. I was manipulative. My alcohol and drug abuse continued for years before I got a hold on it. I grew up watching my dad suffer, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor when I was 9. I watched the man I loved, suffer and slowly die from all the medication, radiation and complications from his Tumor. I could get into so many details about the things I saw and had to deal with because of his illness, but it would take pages, and pages of writing. After the sharp decline of Dad's health, he finally passed away 2 months after my 17th birthday. I practically grew up in a hospital, and me and dad had said our good-byes several times over the years, but when it finally came it was unexpected. There were rumors going around that my emotianlly abusive step-mother had something to do with his death, but that's only speculation. I don't want to drudge up those memories right now. I continued my self-medication by smoking pot everyday and getting rip-roarin' drunk on the weekends. I had been on Zoloft since age 15 to curb my depression and my temper, but I quit taking that stuff at 17.
I had always been a little thug, but as I got older it escalated. It went from smoking pot and drinking beer to crystal meth and liquor. As the drugs got harder my problems got worse. By the age of 18 my step-dad kicked me and mom out of his house and divorced mom because he didn't want us anymore. Back to the ghetto we go! I ended up running around in the streets with some rough dudes, felons, thugs,dope dealers and gangsters. All around mean people. I turned into one of them. I participated in things that I cannot speak about. I carried a sawed off shotgun when my friends weren't using it. I looked for trouble. I beat people up and I got beat up a couple times. I went to jail for a DUI and wrecking a car in somebody oleander bushes in front of their house. I have tattoos I "earned" and a nice scar on my face from a fist fight.(yea I lost that one!)
The thing that really turned me around was having a 12 guage shotgun pointed at my face from about 5 or 6 feet away. That'll put some sense into ya!

After that I moved to a different town with my mom, Bakersfield was nothing but trouble and always getting worse. Now at the age of 22 I find myself surrounded by messianic believers and I am learning more than I ever thought possible! I have been here and living this way for about 6 months and I will never go back to where I came from! A big part of what circumcised my heart was Sukkot. At Sukkot I experienced a huge eye-opener. I finally realised there is a creator, and he loves me enough to show me his truth! ME OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, A LOW LIFE THUG! Wow that blows my mind! I love my Sabbath every week and all of my festivals. It makes me feel so free inside. I no longer suffer from depression and I am sober and drug free! I gave up my former life and now dedicate myself to learning, discipline,and living life for Yahshua Ha'Mashiac! I would now like to give a toast to all the survivors out there! Keep survivin' brothers and sisters!

Thanks everybody!
-Big Matt