Friends Through Christ

I am writing this testimony to tell everyone of my thankfulness to them for allowing God to work through them. My name is Aubrey Hake and I was first introduced to the Restoration and the people in it at the RCI camp in 1996 with the Pickerings and the Whites. After the end of that camp and through the people I met there I wanted to go back the next year. It was that way every year. Now I have graduated high school and I'd still love to go back but the Lord is calling me (well Im going to go to the Older Youth camp...so I need info please!) to do other things. I used to be Catholic. Rarely did I find the willingness to accept me there as I did with all of you. To the counselors and adults involved...thank you for letting God to work through you and doing everything you did. I still look up to many of you. Your work is not in vain...it touched me and I cannot begin to express the things God has taught me through all of you. Never give up. Keep doing what God wants even though you think that no one is paying attention. When I was first learning about God I wouldn't have dared to say a thing(I was very shy). Ok, to all my friends I have made and even to those who I met once or twice as well as those of you I do not know at all, your love for the Lord and even just being at camp was such a strength to me. It wasnt just camp. Thank you for being my friends...my friendships with all of you is what pulled me in the right direction. The friendships all of you have at church(and having to do with church) are so important. You will find that most of the time those are the people who will be there for you no matter what. Whatever you do, never take God out of the picture. Don't push Him away, go to Him for advice, for everything. Most importantly, never give up trying to do God's will. Thank you all...for letting God to work through you, even if you may not have known it.

I just can't thank God enough for all of you. You all have a special place in my heart...and I pray for you. I've found that I can't do everything alone. I have to depend on my friends in Christ to help me, and they depend on me, and we all depend on God! Now, as I am in college, I'm making many new friends, in the church and not. No matter what I will be there for them. Like all of you were there for me. My friends in Christ, I find to be of the greatest value(even though all are valuable). I try not to go long without speaking with them. I thought that it was time I said this. I hope that all of you will find Christ in your lives and will go and share Him with others, as many of you have done already.

Love in Christ,

Aubrey