Albert Loewen:  

Before I came to Prairie I had been attending an old line liberal church. The fall that I attended Prairie I came to know Jesus as my Lord and Savior. My life took a complete change. Still had a number of issues that needed to be dealt with but I now had a resource in Christ that wasn't there before. When I applied to come to Prairie I had to fill out some background information about myself just like everyone else only I didn't understand what a "testimony" was. I asked my mother if she knew what a testimony looked like and from her description I understoad it to mean as list of things I did in the church and such. I have always been very involved in church i.e., sang in the choir, led a boys club, was young peoples president, etc. etc. My younger brother applied at the same time. I was accepted and my brother wasn't. The fact that my brother wasn't accepted made my father very angry with the school. Remember, we had been attending a very liberal church and he thought to himself 'who were they to judge my brother's spiritual state?' I was allowed to attend anyway. After asking Christ into my heart, I wrote a letter home to tell my family about my personal experience with Christ. I didn't cast doubt or blame on anyone else in my family, but my father sent a scorcher of a letter in reply. Who did I think I was? I was no better than anyone else in the family! I would regret the day that I attended Prairie! etc. etc. Personally, I will never regret going to Prairie. My experience there with Christ was the best thing that ever happened to me. The reason that I didn't...Expand for more