Testimonies

My name is Joseph Biscoe IV, and by the grace of God, I was born to saved parents in July of 1991. My family began attending a Bible Believing church in South West Ohio when I was a toddler, and though moving to a new city, we continued to attend church faithfully until 2003. During this time my dad graduated the local bible Institute, and was even a candidate for an associate pastor of another bible believing church. But as it goes sometimes, in 2003 my family stopped going to church and my dad became a professing atheist. About a year after we left church the Lord began dealing with me about being a sinner. One night the Lord convicted me of my sinful condition, and that I was going straight to hell. Growing up in church I knew the gospel, and right then and there as a young teenager I cried out to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation from hell. The Lord saved me that instant, I still remember the ‘ peace of God that passeth all understanding’ calming my soul. After my salvation the Lord opened the door to attend a local church that had just started, a family in the church was kind enough to pick me up for four solid years! The Lord also laid it on my heart to be baptized in this church as well, which I did at 15 years old. During this time the Lord began his ‘good work’ in me, by way of my dad. We would have ‘discussions’ often where I would listen to atheistic ‘logic’, like: ‘there is no pie in the sky waiting on you’ or ‘there is no hell’ ‘the bible you claim to love is nothing but a book of fables’… on and on. Every time we had these talks something inside me would say ‘that’s not right’ ‘check what he’s saying’…I came to understand this to be the Holy Ghost pointing me to my KJV. Every time I’d check the ‘argument’ the Lord so graciously gave me the biblical answer to the supposed problem (there is never an actual problem). The Lord was working a direct dependence upon His book for me, and now I can honestly say I’m very thankful for my teenage years, I’m more thankful for the living scriptures, by which the Lord manifests himself today (Jn. 14:22-23). The Lord called me to preach in my senior year of high school, out of 2 Sam 21, also calling me to Pensacola Bible Institute out of 2 Tim 4. I met my God-given wife there and we were married while attending school. Upon graduating we moved back to Ohio to help the church l grew up in, teaching the youth, starting a youth camp, preaching when needed, street preaching, nursing home and jail ministry. The Lord redirected my path back to Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola Florida, and has since opened the doors for preaching the gospel on the Naval Air Station, in the nursing homes, in correctional facilities as well as on the streets. It is here that the Lord has continued his work, in his call on me to the Republic of Georgia.

Hello, I’m Rachel Biscoe. I could simply tell you that I’m just a sorry sinner saved by grace but the Lord’s work must be testified and he has done quite a work with me. As a young child my parents divorced and I was split between my mom’s family who was raised in the Lutheran church and my dad who was not raised in church, with a mother who believed in reincarnation. By attending some services at the Lutheran church from infancy to 6 years old and the simple prayers my family said before meals I understood there was a God and he had a son that died on a cross, but did not understand the why of anything we did only assumed something bad would happen if we didn’t acknowledge God before we ate. The Lord intervened in a great way when I was 3 years old in the salvation of my dad. He eventually got into a Methodist church where my brothers and I attended when we were with him. As well as I can remember it was April 1996 (I was 5 years old) and we attended the Easter play at the Methodist church. This was like nothing I had seen at a church and I can remember it as clear as day, the play was a reenactment of the crucifixion. It may seem silly now, but as an ignorant child I thought that they had actually killed the man portraying Jesus and that God had really given him the power to come back to life right then and there on stage and I thought that clearly God would have been able to give his son the power to do the same, this stuck with me and I remember thinking on it regularly. Sometime shortly thereafter my stepmother was furious about something and was screaming at my dad, during this she mentioned something about her going to Hell and as a small child amidst this I hid and cried. Once the stormed calmed my dad found me crying behind the recliner and I asked him if my stepmother was going to Hell. My dad explained then to me the plan of salvation and that she was speaking out of anger, but that she was not going to Hell and I decided then that I did not want to go either. I don’t have a date or the exact words that were spoken but I remember what was in my heart at that moment that I accepted the sacrifice that Jesus Christ gave on Calvary for me to take away my sins and understood that only he has the power to do so. Like most other people I doubted my salvation throughout my adolescence but immediately prayed as well as I could think to tell God I know that I am no good and trust Jesus to be my Savior. I’m thankful for an older brother that helped me to understand it was settled at the first. As much as he could my dad would try to get the Bible ingrained in us from then on as we were only with him every other weekend and I would try to do right according to God and his standards, however it just wasn’t quite enough for a kid growing up mostly in a home without the Bible in public school with unsaved friends. So up until age 14 I did the things any carnal kid would do but thankfully the Holy Spirit was there to throw convictions at me just when I was about to go “too” far. The Lord intervened in another great way through a girl my brother Joel started dating from work. She got my brother to start coming to church with her, a church that teaches the King James Bible. During the last summer my brother Joel and I had together before he headed off to Bible College and I entered High school, he talked me into going to youth camp with him. I had never gotten to go to one before so I had no idea what was in store. That camp was the turning point in my relationship with the Lord, and from then on I was in church every single service even after my brother moved away and I had to find my own ride. After High school I didn’t have clear direction and no peace from God about going to college like all my peers, not even a Christian college, so I spent the next year serving the Lord the best I knew how and growing close to my Heavenly Father. This is where the Lord intervened in a big way again and showed through personal Bible reading and sermons that when I get to the Judgment Seat I am going to be judged by what I did with what the Lord gave me, he gave me the King James Bible and how was I to do my best with it if I didn’t know what was in it. Again, God used my brother Joel who had recently graduated Pensacola Bible Institute along with Dr. Ruckman’s reference Bible and a close friend of mine who had graduated high school a year behind me, who also was called to PBI to get me to head down to Pensacola Florida. Not looking for a man or even thinking that God would allow me to get married, not 3 months after starting school the Lord very clearly showed me that Joseph Biscoe is the man that I was to marry and so we were 7 months later. Since then we have graduated Bible School, moved away and returned back again, had 2 children (Leyna and Brayden), had hard trials, and with the call to the mission field, I am excited to see what more the Lord will do.