Loucis Roseburrow

As long as I can remember I have prayed to God but I didn’t know about His Son or what He did.  As an adult my life was okay but I was living as if I was responsible for all that went well in my life.  The only way to realize my need for a savior was to become powerless to impact anything important to me.  Crack rendered me powerless.  I was reduced to walking the streets, sleeping in abandoned houses and eating primarily whenever a Christian group supplied a meal.  I began to hear the Gospel and a seed was planted that had an eternal destiny.

However, I had no idea how to change my sinful desires.  I spent 6 months in jail where I learned about the Bible.  The next few years were an emotional roller coaster.  God was trying to change me but my addition and disobedience prevented me from realizing this.  Yet God kept me, physically and spiritually.  I learned a trade and kept a job.

A sequence of events gave me an overwhelming impulse to go to the Union Gospel Mission.  My first week here I felt the awesome presence of the Holy Spirit.  I was afraid and, being drenched in sin, I wasn’t sure that I had made the right choice but I couldn’t leave.  I wouldn’t leave.  God had me right where he wanted me and was transforming me into the image of His Son.  The past two years have been a journey.  I am now reestablishing my life on the foundation of sound Biblical teaching.  Today I have a relationship with God through His Son Christ Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit I can realize God’s plan for me.

(Loucis now works as the Maintenance Manager at the Union Gospel Mission.).

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David Higbee

As a child I attended Sunday school and youth group. This was the result of my mother trying to keep our family together because my father was an abusive alcoholic. She divorced him when I was 8. My stepfather tried to keep us involved in church but I had too many issues to stay interested. I became involved with the wrong people and by age 14 I was doing drugs and drinking. At 17 I had my first felony conviction. While in jail I was saved although I didn’t fully understand what it meant. I was just told that I was going to be forgiven. Two years later I returned to prison and I promised God that I would live His way if he got me home alive. However, I soon forgot that promise after my release.
After another spell in jail I met a wonderful woman named Sharon who said that she wouldn’t put up with me going in and out of jail. In 1999 we both had good job. We didn’t have kids so we had lots of money to spend on each other. Then in 2002 my uncle was washed off the road in a flood and drowned. Four months later, I lost my fiancée, Sharon, to ovarian Cancer. I was completely devastated. I was ticketed for D.W.I. Then in 2003 my father died and the following year I lost my stepmother of 18 years. I turned myself in to serve 60 days for the D.W.I. In the Denton County Jail I finally understood what it meant to receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. In 2005 the Lord brought me to U.G.M. and it has been the most uplifting and educational experience of my life. Now I intend to learn God’s Word and be as glorifying to Him as I can.

David now works as the Administrative Assistant at the Union Gospel Mission.