I cannot explain why because I honestly do not know, but the deacons of our former church have told us to never come back. (We did not engage in anything illegal or immoral.) Though I do not believe the situation was handled scripturally, I have little else to say about the church. For the most part, they were very good to us. Oasis Baptist Church has some very good people and they will be sorely missed. They were my family and I regret not having the opportunity to serve our Lord together any more. I know one day many of us will meet again on the other side and that we will be too busy praising Jesus to worry about the things of this world. I look forward to those days.

But I am so thankful to my God. He is so good to me. I don't understand His ways and wisdom, but I see His hand in my life now more than I ever have before. I must trust Him with so much more. Every time I give Him another unclaimed portion of my life, He rewards me with a mountain of evidence to prove Himself to me. He has never betrayed me or failed me.

We have been wounded by men. But I know they are just pawns. I thank my Father for forgiving them just as He has forgiven me. My earnest prayer is that first, my family would allow this experience to bring us closer to God, and second, that God will be merciful to Oasis Baptist Church and Christian Academy. I pray that my situation will not be used as a tool of the devil to harm the children of God.