Participants: Aaron Chancy (Host), Terrence Marshall
Series Code: TNJ
Program Code: TNJ000061
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00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues.
00:03 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:04 may be too candid for younger children. 00:10 Welcome to The New Journey. 00:11 A program where you'll meet real life people, 00:13 with real life testimonies, 00:14 doing real life ministry for Jesus Christ. 00:16 I'm your host, Aaron Chancy. 00:18 Come join us on The New Journey. 00:51 Welcome back to the program. 00:53 Today, we have an exciting program 00:54 with a young man by the name of Terrence Marshall. 00:56 Terrence, we like to thank you for being on the program. 00:59 Thank you, Aaron. 01:00 All right, just for some general information, 01:01 Terrence, if you could tell us where you're from, 01:04 where you were born and raised, and how old you are? 01:06 Well, originally, I was born in a little place, 01:08 it's an island called Bermuda. 01:09 Okay. 01:11 Lot of people would talk about the Bermuda Triangle, you know, 01:13 and stuff like that. 01:16 I mean, we've been there on planes, 01:18 on and off, and everything. 01:20 And they just, they take that, 01:23 and blow it out to proportion 01:24 because they were told not to go out 01:28 when they went, 01:30 like the weather and everything, 01:31 it was having bad weather and they would go out 01:33 when they were told not to. 01:35 And so it blew up 01:36 into a big huge triangle thing, you know. 01:38 Yeah, definitely, definitely. 01:39 And so I was born there and I spent, 01:42 till I was five years old... 01:43 Okay. In Bermuda. 01:45 And then we moved here to the States 01:47 which is where my mom lived, which was in Missouri. 01:50 My mom met my dad in Bermuda. 01:52 She was in navy, she was air traffic controller. 01:56 So they met through the church in Bermuda and got married. 01:59 And she moved to her mom and dad's place in Missouri. 02:04 Okay, okay. So then we spent the rest of... 02:07 Until like 2004, and then we moved up here to 3ABN. 02:10 Okay, okay. 02:11 So talk about your early life for me a little bit 02:14 because what's interesting, 02:15 this is a program where we share testimonies. 02:17 And one of the most interesting things is that 02:19 you're only 19 years old. Yeah. 02:21 And I find that, you know, very good, 02:24 that now you're serving the Lord, 02:25 because at 19, 02:27 I was headed to the penitentiary 02:28 when 19 years old. 02:30 So talk about your early life a little bit, 02:32 and how it was for you growing up. 02:34 Well, early life for me, 02:37 I was, you know, my mom was always wanting 02:40 to bring us up in a Christian environment, 02:42 you know, she wanted to bring us up 02:44 where there was no worldly nothing. 02:47 So when I had the opportunity to go to school, 02:53 she wanted to try to find 02:55 the best education school for me. 02:57 So the first school that I actually went to 03:00 was a Mennonite School. 03:02 And I don't know, some people don't know 03:04 about the Mennonite and Amish. 03:05 Mennonites, they're more strict. 03:09 They're less strict than Amish, 03:11 but they're also strict, they only... 03:15 They wear long dresses, pleated shirts, 03:17 and black pants. 03:19 And they drive black vehicles, 03:23 and they have their own certain type of religion. 03:26 Yeah, yeah... 03:27 And so they were more Christian, 03:29 more Christian fellowship and everything. 03:31 So I went to the Mennonite school 03:32 until I was in first grade. Okay. 03:34 And then they found out that we had internet in our house, 03:38 and they call internet, the devil. 03:40 Wow! 03:42 So they said that we cannot come back the next year. 03:45 So then I went back to home schooling 03:48 and my mom home schooled me through third and fourth grade, 03:51 then I moved up here. 03:53 And then, fifth and sixth, 03:55 I went over here to the Christian school 03:58 here at 3ABN. 03:59 And I don't know, it just... 04:02 I wasn't used to school, 04:04 so a lot of people kept, you know, picking on me 04:08 and stuff like this, and I was just like, 04:10 "Man, I'm fed up," you know, 04:11 I'm fed up with what they're picking on me 04:14 for different issues, you know, 04:16 because I didn't fit in, because a lot of my issue was, 04:19 I was raised up around elderly parents. 04:22 My parents were like 50s, 60s, you know, 04:26 so they're almost like grand parents to me... 04:28 Yeah, definitely. 04:29 Instead of being actual young parents 04:31 that could play and stuff like that. 04:33 So I ended up maturing at a younger age, 04:39 working and stuff like that 04:41 around the house and everything. 04:43 So after I got out of Christian school, 04:46 I went back to home school for another year. 04:48 And then I went to the Public school 04:50 up here in Thompsonville. 04:51 And the Public school, 04:54 you know, you get every aspect there. 04:56 And the biggest thing with Pubic school was is, 05:00 you know, as being raised as much as a sheltered life, 05:05 you know, you get to Public school 05:06 and they're like, "Hey, have you seen that movie?" 05:10 You know, and I'm like... 05:11 What movie? "What are you talking about?" 05:13 You know, the only movies I watched 05:15 was like Moses, Abraham... 05:17 Bible story. You know, Bible story movies. 05:19 And I'm like, "What are you talking about?" 05:21 And they were like, "Well, you never watched that 05:23 when you were a kid?" 05:24 And I was like, "No." 05:25 And then one of my teachers was like, you know, 05:28 "What about the nursery rhymes?" 05:30 I was like, "What's that?" 05:32 You know, I never was taught that, 05:34 because my mom want to raise me up 05:37 at a matured level of Christianity, 05:41 knowing right from wrong, you know, 05:43 and she really never taught us that side of the story, 05:46 you know, movies and how they affect your brain, 05:49 you know, and stuff like that, 05:51 because we always watched Christian movies. 05:52 Yeah, definitely. 05:53 So with kids, when you transferred to Public school, 05:56 when kids were coming to you about the movies 05:58 and different things like that, 05:59 how did that make you feel as a young person 06:01 when they were picking on you and different things like that? 06:03 Well, it tore me up, you know, because then I was like, 06:06 "Well, hey, I gotta get in the realm of watching movies, 06:09 the newest movies out." 06:11 You know, because then they were into newest movies out, 06:13 you know, you just... 06:14 "Hey, we just went to the movie." 06:15 And that's another thing my mother always told us. 06:18 Ellen G. White said that 06:19 you ain't supposed to go to the movie theatres. 06:21 Then they'd all be going out to the movie theatres, 06:23 watching the new, latest movie out. 06:26 And I'm like, "So, what is this?" 06:29 You know. Okay. 06:30 And so I was kind of not in the right environment, 06:34 you know, you could tell, 06:35 but then I had to speed up my life 06:37 and say, "Hey, you know, I need to start watching the movies. 06:41 And I need to start..." You know. 06:42 So basically trying to blend in 06:44 with everybody else 'cause you... 06:45 Yeah, with everybody else, yes. 06:46 It's almost like you stood out like a sore thumb. 06:48 Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. 06:49 And I didn't wanna do that, you know, and that was... 06:51 Let me ask you a question. 06:53 Why did you not wanna stick out like a sore thumb? 06:55 I know a lot of times for younger people, 06:57 it's hard to do that 06:59 because we wanna be part of the "in crowd." 07:01 Why do you think that 07:02 you didn't wanna stand out versus, 07:05 you know, and getting involved in that, mixed? 07:08 Well, I didn't wanna stand out 07:10 because, you know, it was kind of like my first year 07:14 going to Public school and I kind of went... 07:16 Like I said, you said, "You wanna fit in 07:18 with what other people were doing." 07:20 You know. 07:22 And then, they already, you know, 07:24 once you say that you're a Seventh-day Adventist, 07:26 then they all link us with 3ABN already. 07:29 Yeah, okay, yeah, 'cause it's prevalent in this area. 07:31 So, because it's prevalent in this area. 07:32 So then you're like, so you already got the bash 07:35 from both ends, you know, around here 07:38 and so you're kind of like, "Where do you stand?" 07:41 And you can't really stand because you don't wanna stand, 07:44 because then they're looking at you 07:45 and like, "Well, why this and why that?" 07:48 You know. Okay. 07:49 And always asking you questions and stuff like that. 07:53 But, so that was the way it was in Public school. 07:58 And then, and I got into freshman year. 08:02 One of the seniors said, 08:05 "Hey, man, you wanna try some chew?" 08:08 You know, chewing tobacco. 08:09 "It ain't no big deal. 08:11 It's gonna make you mature more." 08:14 And so I was like, "Okay, no problem." 08:16 So I put in a dip and almost fainted right there 08:21 and almost started throwing up right there, 08:24 but, you know, that's what the cool kids do, 08:27 so you wanna do it, you know. 08:29 How much of an impact do you think 08:31 peer pressure played upon your life? 08:32 Because I've had some people say, 08:34 "Well, I wasn't impacted by peer pressure 08:36 and different things like that" which, 08:38 you know, here and/or there, whether it's true or not, 08:40 I think that what's around us 08:42 definitely plays a part into what we do. 08:44 So how much in your life do you think 08:46 peer pressure played ac part in what you got involved in? 08:49 Well, I believe peer pressure plays a big part 08:52 in going to high school, you know, and stuff like that, 08:55 and being just out in the world, you know, 08:57 you get an aspect of being out in the world 09:00 when you're in Public school, 09:01 you know, you got the downer people, 09:04 more down lower on the scale that didn't really have much, 09:07 you know, as they were growing up and stuff like that. 09:10 Then you have the higher class people, 09:12 you know, and stuff like that. 09:15 And so the downers wanna get more of the higher up people, 09:19 you know, and you got the contrast 09:21 and you just gotta find your own little space 09:24 to pop in, you know. 09:25 You gotta find yourself in there. 09:26 And find yourself in it 09:28 and get your right mix, you know. 09:30 Definitely, definitely. 09:31 Do you think that you would have been, 09:33 would have done better had you stayed in private school 09:36 versus going to Public school or how do you feel about that? 09:40 Well, I really think that going to Public school, 09:42 you know, it's kind of hard to find out 09:45 what the right age is, you know, 09:47 because Public school really shows you 09:50 what's out there, you know. 09:52 And it's gonna show you like what you have to deal with 09:56 if you wanna go and minister to people out there, you know. 09:59 It's gonna show you how the world is, 10:02 and how corrupt it is, 10:04 and how people you know are always just showing off 10:08 every part of their body, you know, 10:10 and stuff like that, you know. 10:12 It's gonna show you how much temptation there is out there. 10:15 Yeah, definitely. 10:16 And so that's why I think it actually was good in a way, 10:21 but I wish I would have stuck toward to what I believed in... 10:25 Yeah, the Biblical principles. 10:27 You know, the Biblical principles 10:28 that I was brought up with. 10:30 Okay, now you've mentioned a little bit ago 10:31 how you in the ninth grade, freshman year I believe, 10:34 where you were introduced to chewing tobacco. 10:37 After that chewing tobacco, 10:38 what else did you get involved in? 10:40 After the chewing tobacco, then sophomore year, 10:43 around sophomore year, then I was at a baseball game, 10:47 couple of my buds, Tay and Jake, 10:50 they were like, "So let's go behind," 10:53 there was the baseball diamonds kind of here 10:55 and then you could go around a field, 10:57 and then down into the trees, 10:59 and they were like, "Hey, let's go down there 11:01 and smoke some cigs." 11:03 So I was like, "Okay, no problem. 11:04 I wanna try it out." 11:06 You know, I wanna be cool. 11:07 Okay, so this was your first time, smoking cigarette. 11:09 It's first time smoking cigs, yeah. 11:10 And so I'm like, "Okay, so let' go down there." 11:13 And so I almost gagged my lungs out, 11:16 you know, because I'm not used to it. 11:18 And so, then I was like, 11:19 "Man, I don't really wanna deal with that," you know. 11:22 But then after all that, you know, spin, 11:26 then it was into my junior year, 11:30 I had to get some tools for one of my buds 11:36 that was the one that started me chewing tobacco 11:40 in freshman year. 11:41 He'd already graduated 11:42 and he needed some tools to fix his vehicle. 11:44 So I was like, "Hey, okay." 11:46 So I'll go home and get my tools out, 11:48 I didn't live that far away. 11:49 So I went home, and got my tools, 11:51 and brought them to him, and let him fix his vehicle. 11:54 He's like, "Hey, man. 11:55 I got some K2, you wanna smoke it?" 11:57 Okay, okay. I'm like, "Okay." 11:59 So I was like, "Okay, this can't be that bad, 12:02 you know, it wasn't bad before, you know, so..." 12:05 Now for those that don't know what K2 is, 12:07 can you explain what K2 actually is? 12:10 Well, K2 is called synthetic drug. 12:13 It's made differently than real marijuana, 12:18 but it gives you the same high as real marijuana does. 12:23 And then you have another aspect 12:25 which was potpourri. 12:26 Potpourri was incense like you would put in your house, 12:30 you could put that into a pipe, and you could smoke it, 12:32 and you could get high off. 12:34 It's a whole different high though. 12:37 Okay, how did you learn about the potpourri? 12:39 How did that come about? 12:40 Because I've never heard anybody ever in my life, 12:42 and I noticed a lot of different things 12:44 that people can get high off. 12:45 But how did you learn about, 12:47 that you can get high off a potpourri? 12:49 Well, the guy that was doing the K2, 12:54 and we did the K2, 12:56 then he was like, "Hey, man, you can get this stuff 13:00 at a smoke shop." 13:02 And I was like, "Okay." 13:03 So it was only like 3 grams for like 40-45 bucks. 13:07 So that's easy change, you know. 13:09 And it would get you high as K2 would. 13:12 And so, then he was like, 13:13 "Yeah, man, it's called potpourri." 13:15 And I was like, "Okay." 13:16 So then he let me into 13:18 what it was called and everything. 13:20 And then after that, I tried to stay off of it 13:23 as much as I could, 13:24 because I knew that this stuff was not good for us, you know. 13:28 I knew K2 was bad because I had heard all the statistics, 13:31 you know, K2 is terrible for your brain cells 13:34 and all this stuff. 13:35 So then I was like, 13:37 "Well, I need to get to the real stuff, you know, 13:39 so that I need to start smoking marijuana." 13:40 Okay... 13:42 So after I got done with 13:46 the night out there at the lake, 13:48 helping him with his tires and everything, 13:50 then I, I, at the time, 13:53 had a girlfriend that smoked too, 13:57 smoked marijuana, real stuff, weed. 14:00 And so, then it just passed all in, you know, 14:03 and so then I was buying because I had a job. 14:07 And she was smoking and we were smoking. 14:09 We were both getting high 14:11 and we were having a beautiful life, you know. 14:14 And then like I said, 14:15 being peer pressured into sex and everything, 14:18 it was sex everyday, twice a day sometimes. 14:21 Wow! 14:22 You know, and this went on for a nine-month period. 14:25 And then finally, I was like, 14:26 "Man, this is not the lifestyle that I need to live. 14:29 I'm fed up with it." 14:30 Okay, now before you get to there, 14:32 I wanna hit on a couple of points. 14:34 One, you mentioned about the sex everyday. 14:38 And the reason I'm saying this, 14:40 because I think a lot of young people 14:41 are peer pressured into sex. 14:42 I remember when I was younger, around 14 years old or so, 14:46 and I used to have one of my friends 14:49 that used to joke on me because I wasn't having sex yet. 14:51 And it's interesting 14:53 how this thing played itself out. 14:55 So because of that peer pressure, 14:57 I thought, "Okay, well, this is what a young kid 15:00 is supposed to do, he's supposed to have sex." 15:02 You know, at that time, I was just having fun being outside, 15:04 playing basketball, you know, different things like that. 15:06 And, you know, I wasn't really concerned with sex 15:10 as much it might have been before 14, 15:11 maybe around 13, 12, something like that. 15:14 But anyhow, I started having sex. 15:17 And then years later, when we got older, 15:21 I moved back to where I was 15:22 and he told me, "You know what?" 15:24 He said, "I wasn't even having sex back then either." 15:27 And it wasn't until, I was like 18, 19, 15:29 till almost out of high school that I had sex. 15:32 And I found it very interesting how, 15:34 "Hold on, you're clowning me for something 15:36 and you weren't doing it either." 15:38 And it's interesting how peer pressure works. 15:40 Yeah. What do you think about that? 15:41 It is very true. 15:44 A lot other people, they like would talk to me about it 15:48 and stuff, they weren't even at that point yet 15:52 in their life too, like you said. 15:54 So it was kind of weird, but anyhow, like I was saying, 15:58 you know, it's what peer pressure 16:00 does to you, you know. 16:02 And another thing is you can go back, 16:04 like when I was around five and seven and stuff, 16:08 my older sister watched porn, you know, 16:12 so I'd already gotten to see, you know, everything, 16:15 and I knew, you know, like all the different aspects 16:18 and that's another thing finding all out, 16:20 all of the different aspects and everything of it, you know. 16:24 And so, then that was 16:25 a learning process too, you know. 16:27 Okay, now you mentioned about 16:28 the first time that you smoked cigarettes. 16:30 And we're gonna eventually get into, 16:32 you know, when you got fed up, 16:33 but there's a few key things that I wanna hit on. 16:36 When you mentioned about, when you smoked cigarettes, 16:38 you gagged and you were sick. 16:40 And the thing that stands out to me is 16:42 because I remember the first time where I smoked, 16:45 I was about 15 years old, smoke, drinking, 16:47 I was at a house party. 16:48 Snuck out of the house, went to this party, 16:50 actually me and my brother, and we went there, 16:53 and, you know, I got so drunk 16:55 and the next morning, I had a hang over, 16:58 but I knew at that moment, 16:59 even though I got sick, that I was hooked. 17:02 It was something about it that hooked me. 17:04 And the reason I'm bringing this up 17:06 is because even though you gagged from the cigarettes, 17:08 you still progressed into other things. 17:10 Why do you think 17:12 that you progressed into other things 17:14 as the potpourri, the K2, the marijuana, 17:16 when just from the cigarettes, it was kind of like, 17:19 you know, it was like your body was rejecting it? 17:21 Why do you think you got into that? 17:23 Well, I got into it like I said, 17:25 because of the girl that I was with at that time, 17:29 you know, she smoked, all right? 17:31 So I had to buy the tobacco to roll the tubes, 17:35 to roll the cigarettes. 17:36 So since she smoked, 17:38 I wanted to get my money's worth 17:40 out of what I was buying, all right? 17:42 The same way with the weed. 17:43 I wanted to get my money's worth out of what I bought. 17:47 You know, so I needed to smoke along with, 17:49 that was mostly all my thing. 17:50 It was money management. 17:52 I want the money, you know, manage my money. 17:54 And if I was buying it, I need to partake of it, 17:57 you know, and the same way with buying, 17:59 chewing tobacco and stuff like that. 18:01 Okay. 18:03 So that was the big thing, you know. 18:04 And then like I said, finally, 18:06 I was like, "Man, I don't need this. 18:08 I need to get rid of it." 18:10 You know, and stuff like that. 18:11 And then, you know, after a little bit, 18:15 like the weed didn't start first, 18:16 alcohol drinking started first. 18:19 And then... 18:20 Now was it more of just social drinking 18:22 or was it like everyday drinking? 18:23 It was more of social drinking, yeah, 18:25 if we'd have bonfire or something, 18:27 we'd have few beers, you know, stuff like that. 18:30 And then it would progress onto, 18:33 you know, birthday parties and stuff like that. 18:36 And we'd have hideouts 18:38 in different places and stuff like that. 18:40 And then sometimes, 18:42 if we'd go four-wheeler riding or something, 18:44 we'd have beer coolers and stuff like that, you know. 18:48 The older people would 18:50 and they'd be like, "You want a beer?" 18:51 And so, if you'd say, no, 18:53 then they'd be like, "Well, so, what's your problem?" 18:55 Yeah, you know, it's like, you got a problem 18:56 and you don't wanna partake in it. 18:58 It's just interesting how the world is, 19:00 where if you're not doing something that's wrong, 19:02 it's almost like there's something with you. 19:04 Wrong with you, yeah. 19:05 You know, and it's not necessarily 19:07 anything wrong with me. 19:08 It's, "I don't wanna do it," 19:09 but it's like the world pressures you into it so much 19:11 and at a young age, it's almost hard to deny it. 19:14 Yeah. Well, go ahead. 19:15 Yeah, so anyhow, I decided that, 19:18 "Hey, I need to get some things right, 19:20 you know, I need to get, 19:21 I need to get rid of this girl." 19:23 You know, and so, me, 19:26 I've always been a generous person, you know. 19:29 I've always helped people out as much as I could, 19:31 that's what I was taught by the religious views, 19:34 you know, help out as much as you can. 19:36 Definitely... 19:38 And that's the same way, that's why so much, 19:40 a lot of the drug users would be around me 19:42 because they'd be like, "Hey, man, I'm so high, man. 19:45 I need a ride, man." 19:46 You know. "Come pick me up. 19:48 I need to go somewhere." 19:49 You know, or, "I need to go and get some." 19:51 You know, and then they would be like, you know... 19:54 And then all of a sudden, 19:56 I started, someone had to let it out. 19:58 I started getting stopped all the time, 20:00 you know, by cops. 20:02 I'm like, "Dude, man, we can't keep no more weed in this car, 20:05 you know, because I'm getting stopped all the time." 20:08 I've been stopped by sheriffs five times, 20:12 and they've searched my car every time I had been stopped. 20:14 Yeah, wow! 20:16 You know, so I was like, "Man, I don't wanna go to prison." 20:18 You know, and I'm starting to sketch out. 20:21 So, I said, "No more drugs in my car." 20:25 You know, and then they started to lax off 20:27 and then it started to come again. 20:29 So then I was like, "Man, I need to separate." 20:31 And kind of, you know, 20:33 and then one of my friends, Matt Ree, 20:36 he was like, "Yeah, man, 20:38 all they're using you for is the rides and stuff." 20:40 And I was like, "I know, man." 20:42 And so he was like... 20:44 He says, you know, 20:45 "You've really touched my life," 20:47 you know, because he said, "As much as you be real, 20:50 even if you have to go through things, 20:53 you know, how much you be real, you know, 20:55 and you don't find that out here in the world." 20:58 Yes, yes. 20:59 You don't find real people, you know. 21:01 And he says, "You've touched me so much 21:03 is how much you'd be there 21:05 anytime you are needed," you know. 21:08 And so he still lives around here and stuff, 21:13 and I still keep in contact with him 21:14 because I graduated this last year, 2014. 21:18 Okay. 21:19 So then... 21:22 So after that like I said, 21:25 with the girl, I broke up with her. 21:27 So I was generous 21:29 and I said, "Hey, you wanna take my car to Missouri." 21:32 Her mom had come up from Texas. Okay. 21:35 So she was like, "Yeah, no problem." 21:37 So I said, "Okay." 21:39 So I said, "The only thing I wanna do is 21:41 because of my religion and everything. 21:42 I'll pray with you before you leave, 21:44 so you can have safe travel." 21:46 She said, "Okay." 21:47 So I go to her house and I go to pick her up. 21:49 And I cleaned everything out of my car, you know, 21:51 because in my car, I got a nice sound system, 21:55 two twelve-inch subs, you know, pushing the amp, 21:59 you know, got to be pimp, 22:01 you know, you listen to that rap music 22:03 while you're smoking that joint, you know. 22:06 So I cleaned all that stuff out 22:10 'cause I'm like, "Man, I don't know 22:11 who's gonna have this car, 22:12 200-300 dollar equipment in my car," you know, 22:16 "I don't know who's got it." 22:18 You know, so I cleaned all that stuff out 22:20 and she's always calling me, "Hey, are you coming? 22:22 Are you coming?" 22:24 I was like, "Yeah, I'll be there." 22:25 So when I get there, 22:26 her little brother gets in the car, 22:28 and she's like, "Okay, I'm gonna drop him off 22:29 at his grandparents' house." 22:31 Well, she lived at her grandparents' house, 22:34 which is not too far from my house. 22:36 So I was like, "It must be those grandparents." 22:38 So I proceed and go down the New Lake road, 22:41 and that's where her grandparents lived. 22:43 And so I go down there and she's like, 22:46 "That's not the right grandparents." 22:49 She's going to the other side of the family. 22:51 I said, "Okay." 22:52 So I whip it in by Stevens Branch road 22:55 and the car kind of skids, so I counteracted. 22:58 And so I get to my house, and I get out of the car, 23:00 and I go into the garage, 23:02 and wait for her to come and pray with me. 23:03 She's like, "I knew this would happen, 23:05 you know, you wouldn't let me use the car." 23:07 And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, went off all on me. 23:10 Yeah. So I followed her. 23:12 And she got out and started walking down the road, 23:14 so I followed her down the road. 23:16 And I told her, 23:19 she was talking to her dad to come, pick her up. 23:22 I told her, I said, "I want your dad to talk to me." 23:26 Okay. She said, "Okay." 23:28 So I get down the road 23:29 and I'm just coming over the rise 23:31 'cause I live on the same road as 3ABN. 23:34 While coming over the rise 23:35 and there he's coming up with his lights on and everything. 23:39 So they put all the luggage in the car, 23:41 long story short... 23:45 I left that with five stitches in the mouth 23:49 and two black eyes, because... 23:51 Wow! Wow! So you and her dad got into it. 23:53 Yeah, her dad got out of the car, 23:55 her dad was a alcoholic. 23:57 He started... 23:59 No, the brother started, which was 15. 24:02 He started, got seven rounds of punches in. 24:05 And then the dad got in and he got one round in. 24:09 And so there I am, you know, I'm bleeding all over. 24:14 And I'm like, "Man, where am I gonna go?" 24:16 You know, "I don't wanna go back home 24:18 'cause I don't wanna worry my parents." 24:20 You know, where have I been? 24:22 You know, and stuff like that. 24:23 So that's what I had to deal with. 24:25 So then I went to the gas station 24:27 and a couple of my friends were like, "Man, what's happened? 24:29 You look like, you look like a zombie, you know, 24:32 and stuff, crying" 24:33 You know, "you look like a zombie." 24:35 I'm like, "Man, I just got beat up 24:37 by my ex's father and brother." 24:41 And all it was over was recklessly driving 24:44 with the little kid in the car, you know. 24:46 So, no sense in it at all, 24:51 but, so anyhow, I went to the hospital 24:53 and like I said, I got five stitches and everything. 24:56 And then I finally was just like, 24:58 "Man, I gotta kind of get out this, you know." 25:01 Yeah, so do you think 25:02 that was kind of like your breaking point in life 25:04 when you realized, "I needed to make a change." 25:05 It was a little bit of my breaking point 25:08 but then I still went back to the alcohol, 25:09 and I still went back to the weed. 25:12 My biggest breaking point in my life 25:14 was just here recently, June 1st, 2014. 25:20 My mom passed away, you know. Oh, wow! Wow! 25:22 And that's what really broke me, you know, 25:25 it broke me where I'm just like, 25:27 because the weekend before she died, 25:29 I was drunk, and I was smoking weed, you know. 25:34 And I didn't have that time to spend with her 25:36 when I could've been spending time 25:38 with my mother before she died, you know. 25:40 And it really scars me to this day, 25:44 but I have to move on, 25:45 and I have to know that I'm gonna see her, you know, 25:48 and that's what it gives me as assurance that, 25:50 "Hey, I'm gonna see her in the kingdom, 25:52 so I need to get my life right with God," you know. 25:55 Definitely, definitely. 25:56 What do you think you can say to young people, 25:58 looking into the camera because, 26:00 you know, it's interesting how, like I said, 26:02 you're 19 years old, and many, many young people at your age, 26:05 they haven't come to that realization like you have? 26:08 And what do you think that you can say to young people 26:11 to get them to realize that, you know, 26:14 the time for the playing the games is over, 26:15 you know, it's time to make a change, 26:17 it's time to come back to the Lord? 26:19 I want you to talk to that young person right now. 26:21 Well, I really think that, 26:23 what I would like to say to you, 26:25 the young people, right now, is that, don't wait, you know, 26:29 Aaron shared his testimony, 26:31 don't wait until you hit rock bottom, you know. 26:34 Sometimes you have to but if you know the truth 26:37 and you believe the truth, 26:39 don't wait for a tragedy to happen, you know. 26:43 Losing my mother was a tragedy. 26:45 It had to happen, you know, before it turned my life around 26:49 and made me think, "Hey, I need to stop some of these things 26:53 that's going on in my life," you know. 26:55 And I'm not saying that, 26:57 you know, everybody's not perfect. 26:58 They got a past, you know, 27:00 but don't wait for that tragedy to happen. 27:03 Definitely, definitely. Those are good words. 27:06 You know, like I said, I'm blessed by your story 27:08 because at 19 years old, I was out there violent. 27:11 It wasn't until I turned 25, 27:13 where I decided to come to the Lord, 27:14 but I'm blessed by your story. 27:16 And I know that there's many mothers and fathers 27:19 that are blessed also 27:20 because their child is 18, 19 years old, 27:23 and they're in a different place 27:25 than where you are right now, and praying for them. 27:27 So I know that your story is a blessing, 27:29 so I wanna thank you, Terrence, for being on the program 27:32 and sharing your testimony with the world, 27:34 and would love to have you back sometime. 27:36 Thank you, Aaron. 27:37 Well, viewers, we like to thank you 27:39 for tuning into The New Journey, 27:40 an exciting program. 27:42 Be sure to join us next time 27:44 as we have another exciting testimony 27:47 of what God has done for one of His children 27:50 in bringing them back home into the fold. 27:52 Be sure to tune in next time, to The New Journey. 27:55 God bless. |
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