26th Wedding Anniversary

Thursday, July 3rd, will be mine and Tim's 26th wedding anniversary! It's hard to believe that we've been married that long....but, on the other hand, It seems like we've been together forever.



Tim was my very first boyfriend. We started dating when I was 15 years old and have been together ever since. When we married I had just turned 17 and he was 6 weeks away from his 19th birthday. We had to have my mother's permission to marry and even then we had to appear before a judge to be granted permission. The judge told us that he was going to give us permission but that he wanted us to know that 97% of teenage marriages fail. It was pretty tough going too, at first, because we were sinners. My father had been killed 2 months before our wedding and I was devastated. I spent the first year of our marriage in deep turmoil and depression.

After we had been married a little over a year, we decided that we needed God in our lives and that we needed to be baptized in Jesus Name in order to make our marriage work. So we started searching for a church that taught what we were looking for and found the church in Madera, pastored by Clifford Clark. Our first service was the week before the church was starting a revival with evangelist Larry Booker. We attended the revival, got baptized in the wonderful name of Jesus, received the gift of the Holy Ghost and have never looked back.

God has been so good to us and kept His hand on our lives and I am so thankful to Him! I love him with all my heart and pray that he never gives up on me.

Tim has been the best husband and father that I have ever known. I am privileged to be his wife and our children are blessed to have him as their father! I have never known a man so dedicated to having a christian spirit and trying to do the will of God. He has wisdom beyond his years and I trust him completely. My prayer is that the next 26 years are as blessed as the first 26 years!