Living Testimony

December 26, 1999. The Reverend Ananias Divine couldnt believe his eyes. The
Church was so enormously packed that they had to bring in about two hundred more
chairs to accommodate the mass of the Congregation.
While the whole nation and the people in the rest of the world were overwhelmingly
concerned about Y2K, the people in the small town of Prairie View, Texas had only one
major concern on their mind: Reverend Divine was retiring as the Pastor of the Divine
Temple Holiness Church, and the Reverend Bruce Baltimore was to take over.
Reverend Divine was a godly man whom everybody looked up to with the outmost
respect. People loved and respected him all their lives. Reverend Baltimore, on the other
hand, did some things in his life that many would feel would make him unworthy to
be Pastor. Bruce Baltimore constantly reminded the Congregation that he was a living
testimony, that if God could show grace and mercy, and save a wretched and useless
man like him, that he could save anybody who trust in Him and call upon His name.
Like the prodigal son, Bruce Baltimore was on the verse of losing everything: his job,
his ball games, his marriage, his son, his daughter, respect from his dog, his fi nance and
material things, his sanity, and even his own life, both spiritually and physically. But
Bruce fi nally comes to himself and accepts Gods amazing grace. Readers can fi nd out
more about the life of Bruce and his family as his story unravels in Living Testimony.