My Life Story
FRANK TEABO
It says in the Bible "Cast your anxiety on Jesus because He
cares for you". I have based my life on it. My name is Frank Teabo
and I am from the state of Washington in the United States. I am twenty
years old. My Christian life began six years ago when I was in the first
year of high school. I had met a girl who was a Christian and had started
to date her. After some time, she had convinced me to go to a Christian
church after a lot of resistance from me. I liked the pastor and the people,
so I continued to go.
My relationship with this girl was a different story. After I accepted
Jesus Christ into my life, we began to discuss our relationship because
it was not pure. I asked her if it was acceptable to Jesus. She said it
wasn't, but we kept on having sex. As a result, she got pregnant.
We both thought it was wrong to abort the child and so we kept it.
That was a very difficult year for me. She had a baby boy and we named
him Frankie Marshall Teabo II. After the birth of the child, my girlfriend
and I were not getting along and we decided to break up. I kept the baby.
He was the joy of my life, but also a burden because I was only sixteen
years old.
One day, I woke up to a scream and jumped out of bed. The scream
came out of my mother from my son's room upstairs. She was in a rage. I
grabbed my son and was going to run out of my house thinking it was on
fire, when I looked down at my arms, I realized my son was dead. He was
only six months old. I fell to the ground holding him, crying to Jesus,
asking why. We buried him and I have not visited his grave in six years.
After to death, we moved to Olympia, Washington and I started over. No
one knew me there and still no one does now.
I finished highschool in Olympia on time, which was a gift from Jesus.
I was really far behind because of all the things going on in my life.
My faith in Jesus was strong because I met a guy who led me back to Jesus.
I served in a Christian church for two years without missing a day. I met
a girl, but we broke up after two years. This caused my faith in Jesus
to weaken and I began to party hard and chased after girls.
I
was heading to university when I started to go back to church. I made some
really good friends. They asked me what I was doing with my life and
I told I was going to university. They asked me why and I said I want to
party. They suggested that instead of going to school for the wrong reason
and wasting alot of money, to go to Youth With A Mission and attend the
Discipleship Training School. I prayed about it and Jesus gave me a peace.
Jesus, through people provided enough money to pay for my first half of
the school. He is so faithful.
Since then, Jesus has been real to me and has shown me who I am.
I came to Japan because I want to share Jesus' love and what He has done
for me. Yes, I have had many struggles, but I live by what the Bible said
about "casting your anxiety on Jesus because He cares for you".
I gave all my anxieties to Jesus and He took care of them for me because
He cares for me.
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