First and foremost I would like to praise my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for his Miraculous Power and His Mercy. 6 months ago I was working at the Capital building in Salt Lake City, Utah. I fell from a ladder almost a story high. I fell so hard that my boot ripped and tore into the side if my right foot. Within 7 days from the fall my foot got so infected I was hospitalized. The doctors said I had acquired what’s called MRSA. It’s a staph type of infection. I was laying in a bed at Scripps hospital for almost 2 months.

The last 5 days that I stayed in the hospital the doctors would come and tell me that my whole foot was basically dead and they needed to cut my whole foot off from the top ankle down. I cried when they told me the first time when they came into my room with that horrible news. For 5 days in a row I would ask them to give me some more time to think about having my foot cut off. I then asked my very good Brother in the Lord, Brother G to ask his brother who is Brother Fee Soliven to come and pray for my foot.

Brother Fee came the last day that the doctors had given me before they were going to have my foot removed. Brother Fee brought with him his very good friend named Brother Felipe Ruelas. Brother Felipe is a world wide evangelist. They both anointed my head with oil, laid hands on me and started praying in the Holy Ghost! I felt the presence of God all over me and thought to my self that God was comforting me for the surgery. Well after they stopped praying Brother Fee said that God has just healed your foot by faith and that they weren’t going to cut my foot off. The scripture they quoted to me was

Romans 10:15 “And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things” They said God needed me to have my 2 feet to continue to preach the Gospel. I was crying and tears were running down the side of my face hoping and trusting God for the Word which was just given to me. Well after Brother G, Brother Fee and Brother Felipe left my room, 3 doctors came in to re-examine my foot just to see where exactly they were going to make the incision.

Well just to their amazement they saw my foot under a very powerful type of microscope made just for limbs and saw that my cells in my foot were alive and growing back! They said “hey we can’t cut off his foot, this is a real medical miracle”! Within 4 hours after my Brothers in Christ had left, my foot had no more green to it. After 9 hours had past the black and blue had just about cleared up. The following day they moved me to another floor and started my rehabilitation. I am living proof that Jesus is still the “Great Healer” All Glory, Honor and Praise goes to King Jesus! I testified at Fee & Yolanda’s Home Fellowship on Friday April 18th, 2008 As you can see in my photo I am walking and testifying where ever I go to tell others what God has done for me!!!!
Thomas Jacome

Hi my name is Yvonne Torres and I would like to share with you my testimony of how God has changed my life and of all the wonderful things he has done and continues to do for me. Jesus has delivered me from a life of drugs and sin. I started doing drugs at a young age of 12. I had used many different drugs and was an addict for 31 years. I never thought I would ever stop using drugs until I was introduced to something more powerful than any drug I have ever known. It was the power of God’s Holy Spirit. My niece Desiree Valdez and her husband Marcos Valdez had witnessed to me about Jesus on several occasions and tried to take me to Church with them. Even my two teenage children had already started attending Church before I ever went. They also tried to get me to go with them to Church.

I was so blind to the Word of God and who Jesus was because of my Catholic religion, drug addiction and not knowing I could have a personal relationship with God. I would always yell and get mad at them for always asking me to go to Church with them. One Saturday my nephew Andy Ochoa thought he would ask me to go to Church the next day not expecting that I would agree. When I said yes, I’ll go tomorrow his eyes lit up and said “are you sure.” That night I went out partying and had not slept all night. When the next morning came around I said to my self no more will I let the devil keep me from God. So I got ready and went to Church. That day September 12, 2007 I gave my heart to Jesus.

So right after Church at 2:00 pm I went over to Fee & Yolanda’s home and they baptized me in their Jacuzzi in Jesus Name and God filled me with His Holy Spirit with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory. Jesus set me free from all my drug addictions! Since that day I have been going to Church and Bible study as much as I can, learning more of God’s Word and doing my best to live a Righteous Christian Life. I currently attend Amazing Grace Christian Fellowship & Friday Night Bible Studies in Chula Vista where I have learned so much of God’s Word for my life. The Lord Jesus has blessed my life in so many ways and I will Thank Him for ever. Without Him coming into my life I honestly don’t know where I would be today. I know now that I have eternal life. I am sitting at the feet of Jesus, I am going to heaven and I will be with my Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ!!!!
Yvonne Torres

At the age of 30 I was enrolled in my third drug and alcohol rehab. I was physically and mentally addicted to crystal methamphetamine, marijuana and alcohol. I basically destroyed my first marriage and my employer, Western Lumber, was ready to terminate me for coming in late almost every morning. I would party almost every night and didn’t care of any consequences. I had just recently separated from my wife Patsy and asked my brother Dale if I could stay with him for a few weeks. He agreed with one condition, that I would not sell drugs out of his apartment. I told him I wouldn’t, just so I could stay there, but I was still dealing dope out of his place.

One day I had to renew my Price Club card and as I was standing in line a Lieutenant in the Navy tapped me on my shoulder and asked me if I wanted to make $60,000 dollars in less than three weeks. I said to him “Wow! How is that possible?” He said “I would like to come to your home, or you can come to mine, and show you a presentation on what I do”. Now for a moment I thought he was an undercover cop following me. So I asked for his phone number and told him that I would ask my brother if he could come over and give his presentation. He said, “My name is John Woodson and I am looking forward to your call”.

I went home and asked my brother Dale if John could come over and show us his presentation. Dale said okay, so I called John and invited him to come over the following day. When the next day came we saw him approaching our door and he had two big leather suitcases. He rang the doorbell, I greeted him and invited him in. Dale, Bonnie (Dale’s girlfriend) and I were waiting patiently for him to begin. When John opened up his bag he reached in and brought up a box of soap that said Amway on the front cover. I was so disappointed, for I knew all about Amway products. I then said to him “I am so sorry, but I cannot get involved in your business even if I wanted to”.

I told him I was physically and mentally addicted to crystal methamphetamine, marijuana and alcohol. I even mentioned to him that I was enrolled in my third rehab. He right away said to me “I know someone who can set you free and not only set you free but give you eternal life”. I replied, “If he works at the Schick Center I don’t have $5,000”. He said, “Oh, no. His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died for your sins and mine and all you have to do is receive Him by faith. He went on to say that Jesus will give me a new heart and a new life all by faith. I started to think about it for a moment but a religious spirit rose up in me and I said “I’m a catholic and that’s good enough for me”.

I told John our meeting was over. As he started to pack his bags he gave me his business card. On the back of his card he wrote the name of his church, “Horizon Christian Fellowship in Clairemont Mesa”. He said I can always find him there if I ever needed him. I took his card and placed it in my wallet and said goodbye. During the week that followed John called every other day. I told Bonnie, “Tell him I’m not here!” I was avoided him like the flu. Then the following week, on a cold Thursday night, I drove up to Linda Vista where Patsy, my wife at the time, was staying with my kids. I was there to drop off some money and to visit my kids. When I knocked on the door Patsy opened the door and came outside closing the door behind her.

I asked her why can’t I come in and she said that our daughter Sophia was still awake and she “didn’t want her to hear what I have to say to you tonight”. I said “Well, start saying what you have to say”. She said, “During the eight years of our marriage you introduced me to cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, and crystal methamphetamine. Our whole marriage was just a big party and one day soon we are going to be raided by the Fed’s for your drug dealing. Your brother, a cop, has told you many times ‘you better stop dealing drugs or you will go to prison’”. She then informed me that she had gone to the courthouse with her mother and filed for a divorce. I immediately was filled with wrath and anger.

I cursed her out, got in my car and left. Right around the corner on Linda Vista Road and Ulrich was a Shell gas station and I needed gas. As I got out of my car I took my wallet out and as I opened it up John’s business card falls right on my car seat. It appeared like something or someone took it out of my wallet and laid it on my car seat. I picked up the card and saw that the church, the name he had written on the back, was just a half mile away. After getting my gas I drove down Genesee and on the left hand side, on the corner of Genesee and Mount Alifan was Horizon Christian Fellowship. I pulled into the parking lot and my car was the only car on the whole campus. I got out of my car and started walking on the grass.

As I looked up I saw a class room with the lights on and a custodial cart parked at the door. I walked along the fence and as I got closer I saw a custodian vacuuming a classroom. I yelled out with a loud voice “Hey!” He heard me and turned off the vacuum and said “who’s calling me?” I said “Here I am. I’m over here at the fence”. He zeroed in on me and started to approach me. The custodian said to me “How can I help you?” I asked him, “When is your next mass?” He chuckled and said “we don’t have a mass here but we do have services at 8:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and at 6:00 p.m.” I said “cool man, thanks” then I started to walk away. He called out to me as I was walking away. “Hey wait a minute come back. There is a troubled look on your face; do you want to talk about it?” I said, “I don’t even know you man!” To which he replied, “That’s okay just talk to me. I was just finishing up my last classroom and I have all the time to talk to you.”

Now here is this total stranger whom I have never met before and I was spilling out my guts to him! I told him about my drug rehab, my wife filing a divorce, my job ready to terminate me and then I lifted up my pant leg and said to him, “See this pouch in my sock? It’s over $500 of crystal methamphetamine! I am physically and mentally addicted to this stuff and I can’t seem to shake it”. He said, “Stop right there; I know someone who can not only set you free but give you eternal life”. I asked him “Who? Who can help me? Who can set me free?”

“His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God who died for your sins and mine. All you have to do is receive Him by faith and He will give you a new heart and a new life.” I started thinking to myself, this is the second person in one week who has told me about Jesus. I asked if I could come back Sunday and he said, “No man right now. You can receive Jesus right now! Just pray with me”. I told him I didn’t know how to pray. He said “Just bow your head down and raise your hand up against mine”. So I did despite there being a chain link fence between us. Then he said “Repeat this prayer after me:

Dear Lord Jesus, I confess that I’ve been a sinner all my life; I believe on Your death, burial and resurrection. I believe that You died for me and that the blood that You shed on the cross will cleanse me of all my sins. Come into my heart.”

As soon as I said that, I didn’t even get to Amen, when a whoosh came upon me and I started crying like a little baby. I said “What's happening to me?” He told me to calm down and said, “The Holy Spirit has come upon you right now!” The last time I cried like that was when my grandmother died but the difference was these tears were not of sorrow but of joy! I felt as if a million tons lifted from me. Everything was so brand new and as my tears were flowing down my face the custodian’s eyes got real big as he told me look up into the sky. He said, “Do you feel the wind blowing?” “Yes” I replied and then he asked, “Can you see the wind?” I said “No.” He went on to say that “the angels in heaven are rejoicing that you have just received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior”. Then we exchanged phone numbers and I drove home.

As soon as I got home I went straight into the bathroom and took that pouch of crystal out of my sock. I poured out all the small packets into the big pouch and took the big pouch and flushed it down the toilet! I was immediately delivered from all my addictions in that moment. I then proceeded into my room and scooped up all the girly books from under my bed and threw them into the dumpster behind the apartments. The very next morning I went to a book store and bought my first Bible. I was in church that very next Sunday. That was nineteen years ago with no looking back! To Jesus I give all the praise and glory! By the Grace of God I am now the Senior Pastor at Amazing Grace Christian Fellowship in Chula Vista.
Placido “Fee” Soliven

Well during the first five years of Fee’s walk with the Lord, He and four other brothers in the Lord started a ministry called Brothers in Christ. Every week they would pray for someone to go give a Bible study to. One of them was my sister Nancy’s brother-in-law Daniel. He told Fee I know someone who we can give a Bible study to and Daniel told them about me. Daniel and I used to get high together smoking marijuana I would go to his mother’s house where he was living at the time and get high with him and his cousins. I lived a party life and look forward to the weekends to go out with my girlfriends and this lasted from Friday night till Sunday. I would start my day with a hit from my bong take my kids to school go to work and come home to the same thing. This was how I would function during my week. I thought this was a normal way a life. I was divorced from my children’s father and living with my parents for four years and was trying to find away to get on my own. Nothing seemed to work for me it seemed like I was never going to give my children a place that they could call home. And my parents were tired of the life style I was leading not only to them but, my children as well. They used to see me come home from the nights I would go out and get drunk and high.

I needed help but didn’t seem to know how to get out of my situation. Well on Feb. 3, of 1991 Jesus knocked on my mother’s door. When she opened the door she saw Daniel, Fee, and Brett who was Fee’s brother-in-law. I only knew Daniel at the time and never saw Fee before in my life or Brett. We welcome them in and served them some coffee and Daniel introduced me to Fee and Brett and told me that they had come to give me a Bible study. I knew that Daniel had gotten saved and I thought that was good for him. I told them sure go ahead, I didn’t want to be rude to Daniel or his friends but little did I know how it was going to change my life around. Fee opened his Bible to the gospel of John chapter 3 which is the story of Nicodemus a Pharisee who came to Jesus by night to ask him of the miracles and signs that Jesus was doing, and how one must be born again to see the kingdom of God. I was so fascinated because this was the first time anyone came to share the gospel of Jesus to me. I went to church when I was a child but didn’t remember anything like I was hearing that night. Well when Fee was done he, Daniel and Brett prayed for me and asked me if I would like to attend their church. I told them I would call them and let them know but during the night and the next day I just kept thinking maybe Jesus can help me and my children .

So I gave Daniel a call and told him yes I would like to go with them to church which was on a Wednesday Feb. 6, 1991. Well as soon as I walked in this place I felt something come over me. The Pastor gave a bible study and after he finished he asked if anyone would like to come forward and ask Jesus to forgive them of their sins and be baptized. It was as if someone push me out of my seat and I jump up and walked down to the altar to ask Jesus to forgive me of all my sins and there were a lot. I also got baptized and when I came out of the water the Spirit of God was all over me. I felt like a new person and everything was like new to me. It was like God had opened my eyes to understand him. In John 14:6 Jesus says “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. A short time after I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior he open up doors for me I was able to get a place for me and my children they were so happy. We didn’t have much but Jesus continues to provide for us what seemed impossible bit God made it possible. I am now married to Fee Soliven and we serve Jesus as we wait for his perfect plan for our lives. I am so thankful to Jesus and all that He has done in my life!!!!
Yolanda Soliven

My name is Belinda Delgado. I was born and raised here in San Diego. My Parents are Christians and raised my brothers, sister and I in a Christian home. All of my childhood memories that I have, have something to do with church. At 14, I gave my heart to the Lord and at 15 I was baptized. I knew I was doing the right thing, but I didn’t fully understand why. As a child growing up in church, it can become routine. At 18 I was burnt out and tired of the same thing over and over. But of course, the devil was right there to tell me that I should just leave church and go off into the world. I thought it was a pretty good idea, since I had never experience anything other than church, church, church.

At 18, I left God, but what I didn’t know was that God never left me. I went on my way doing what I wanted, when I wanted, and defied my Parents every step of the way. In the back of my mind I would hear His voice say “What are you doing? Get back to church. Come back to me.” But the devil already had a hold of me and I was too ashamed to go back. It went on like this for 10 years. By the grace of God, I never got involved with drugs or got in trouble with the law, but I had my fair share of a sinful life. It wasn’t until 2 years ago, that I had a huge falling out with one of my nephews. He was a drug user and was also selling drugs while living at my parent’s home. One day, I had had enough of him and had him arrested and thrown out of my parent’s home. But as soon as he was out of jail, my parents took him right back in and he went back to the same things. This had caused a huge rift between my parents and me. Our arguments were always about him. They would constantly tell me to pray for him. To pray that the Lord save him from the life he’s living. I would scream back “God can’t save him! He’s hopeless.” Even though I knew that was a lie, the real reason I never prayed for him was because I was ashamed of the life I was living and thought that God would not hear my prayers.

I finally decided that I needed to move out. I moved in with my Sister for awhile…but that didn’t work out. I decided one day that I was going to try to buy my own place. I remembered that when my Sister bought her house, she went with this realtor who was a brother of a good friend of my family. That friend was David Soliven and his brother was Fee. I told Fee that I decided to use him as my realtor because he was a Christian. Fee asked me, “Are you a Christian?” I said, “yeah…kind of.” Of course, that was all Brother Fee needed to know and throughout the whole process of buying my condo, he and Sister Yolanda would witness to me each chance they got. I guess they saw the desperation and need of the Lord in my eyes that I was ignoring all this time. Brother Fee gave me this movie called “Facing the Giants.” He told me to watch it. He told me that it is one of the greatest movies that I could ever watch. After putting it off for a couple of days, I finally watched the movie. I couldn’t believe all the trials that the character in that movie went through and yet he still believed in God and trusted Him to see him through it. I found myself thinking “I want a relationship like that with the Lord.” I started crying in my room after the movie was over and I couldn’t stop. I started feeling this intense heat and I could feel something inside me telling me to just let go. I know now it was the Holy Spirit. I let go right then and there and re-dedicated my life to the Lord.

I went back the next day and told Brother Fee and Sister Yolanda what had happened. The very next day, I even went out and bought a Bible since I had lost the first one I had. I started attending Brother Fee’s Home Fellowship that Friday and started attending MVCF that Sunday. I got baptized again. And in this past year I have seen my relationship with the Lord grow so much. I thank God everyday for not letting me go and for calling me out of the darkness and into His marvelous light. “For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” 1Peter 2:25
Belinda Delgado

Ron & Michelle have similar family dynamics as children, both were raised by single parents, with very little to none contact w/the other parent. Ron was raised by his Mother in Bronx NY, in an active 7th Day Adventist Church, and Michelle was raised by her Father in Buffalo NY, in an active Pentecostal Church.

As teenagers, both Ron & Michelle had a falling away from the churches they were brought up in, and started to conform to the things of the world. Both were adapting into a party lifestyle of, alcohol, drugs and sex. God and religion were never a focus of their lives, but in his infinite wisdom, God kept them from making choices that they couldn’t come back from.

In 1999, Ron & Michelle met in Buffalo NY, and started a relationship which brought both of them across the country to San Diego CA. Starting a new life, and leaving old friends (and vices) behind became a blessing in disguise. Also with what we thought to be an untimely pregnancy in 2001, with our 1st daughter born in 2002, God was paving the way for our brokenness, to come back to him.

After the birth of our daughter (Kelsey), Michelle was in the boughs of Post partum depression, the isolation and stress of a new family was enough to make us look outside of ourselves for help. And we both knew where that help had to come from; it had to come from The Lord.

While Kelsey was relatively new, Michelle decided to seek out the Lord at a church whose banner along the road actually had the name “Jesus Christ” in it, we decided that might be the same Jesus we grew up with, and so we’d try it out.

Michelle went one early morning, and the Pastor gave a moving sermon, and at the end of the sermon, he asked all those who wanted to change their lives to raise their hands, which Michelle did. Then afterwards he had them stand up, and all the people around them were asked to lay hands on them and pray over them. Michelle was crying out of shame, and embarrassment, and a broken heart. The Lord moved on her that day, and the following week Ron was with her to check this place out.

The Lord kept us coming back for awhile before we realized we needed to get our “real life” in order, and inline with God’s word. We were married when Kelsey was 5 ½ months old, and within 2 weeks of the wedding, Michelle’s depression lifted, God was so Good!

Our life then became one of slow change; slowly the Lord was weeding out the partying, the worldy friends, and the ungodly influences in our lives. We were slowly changing, but God had a bigger plan for us, and we had some bigger changes in our lives after we took the step of baptism in 2005. God’s spirit was calling us to get involved, to seek out his word, and to know him better. Also at the same time our Pastor was telling us to read his word an hour a day. This really began a big change in our lives. We started to live in his word; it was alive and real to us. We started to serve in the church.

Even during tribulations that followed, God saw us through, and held us tightly in the palm of his hand.

We both serve at the same church we recommitted ourselves in, Mission Valley Christian Fellowship and attend Fee & Yolanda’s Friday Night Home Fellowship in Chula Vista. Ron & Michelle serve in the Family Ministry every Sunday Evening, and our 2 beautiful daughters Kelsey and Isabel are right alongside us. We are living examples of the truth in God’s word “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
Ron & Michelle Ortiz

Hi my name is Lauren Perez. I’ve been through a lot as a child. My parents were involved in the drug life world. As a child I could remember almost everything, like our home being raided by cops, my mom and dad using drugs, many fights in the home and lots of drug traffic throughout our house. It was never a happy and safe home. At the age of 5 my grandparents took custody of me and my siblings because social services were taking us to a foster home. Growing up with my grandparents was hard at times because I would always see my cousins being loved by there mom, and as a little girl you want to be loved by your mom who brought you into this world. My grandmother was just never a loving person, but she tried to love me the best way she could.

My mom would always come in and out of my life. She would be in rehabs and would say she was going to change, but she wouldn’t. There was one time that I’ll never forget when she promised me she would come back and pick me up. So I waited and waited for her at my grandmother’s door steps…….She never came back. Years later she came back to my life this time with a really good man. He was her boyfriend at the time, his name is Leonard. She finally got her life straight. No more drugs. She got custody of us again which I was so happy! I was finally going to live with my mom.

Years later I went through the teenage years where you think you know everything. Growing up in National City I lived the life of sin. When I turned 18 I lived the party life filled with drugs & alcohol. There was so much drama in my life that I nearly committed suicide. Years later I was on my myspace when I found Michelle Martinez’s little sister and I emailed her to tell Michelle I said hello. But the back of my mind I was thinking yes, I found my party girl again! Little did I know she had become a Born Again Christian. Two weeks later she writes back with all these scriptures but it really didn’t concern me. She invited me to Church and I said I would go, but of course I didn’t. So we lost contact.

A month later had passed and one day I had to go to the bank and while I was waiting in line, I saw a girl that resembled Michelle but I couldn’t tell because her back was towards me. When she turned around I screamed and shouted out her name and we both ran to each other and hugged. I walked her to her car and that’s when her husband Jorje handed me a Bible, and asked me “so do you want to go to church on Sunday” and I said yes! Sunday came around and I went to church and as we began to pray I started to cry.

At the end of the service I went up for prayer and met Brother Fee Soliven and that’s when I gave my heart to the Lord Jesus! This was the best decision I ever made. A week later I got baptized at Fee and Yolanda’s Home Fellowship in Chula Vista. This is where I was filled with the Holy Ghost and with Fire! God has blessed me so much with a beautiful son a husband and good loving friends. We now attend Amazing Grace Christian Fellowship in Chula Vista and Fee & Yolanda’s Home Fellowship on Friday Nights! Thank You Jesus!!!!!!!
Lauren Perez