Brian Rudichuk:  

Who am I? That is a good question. I left Canada before most of my changes came about. I really lost my way for many years. My final three years of high school were really mostly just that...High, really High. I think loneliness drove me to that, even though I was not without friends. But I have found that much of life's friendships are really made up of dependent lonely people seeking what they can get from others. We are all trying to meet such needs in our lives...a place to belong, a people to belong to...can any of you relate? I found that now my life is not about what I can get at all. I have something to give. I come to serve and to love others. I am no longer lonely. In 1979 I had my first exposure to the message of Jesus Christ and His claim to be my Savior. Without understanding anything, I asked him to forgive my sin and come into my life. For a time I continued on in that new life...but I had no foundation or understanding of what had really taken place inside of me and so the reality of His Presence was short lived and soon after (9 months perhaps) I was back involved in sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. I began to earnestly ask God to come back into my life in January of 1982. I then had what I will call my conversion to Christ's life. It is where a man places himself fully at the disposal of God as His Father and Jesus Christ as his Lord and Master. Upon making that transaction, my life took on new meaning and purpose, an eternal one, and since then I have been delivered out of my former way of life. The change inside me was so dramatic that anyone who knew me before had a great deal of difficulty relating to the changes. But I too had a difficult time relating those changes to my friends and family. Since then God has mercifully tempered my enthusiasm and matured it into a stable faith. It still permeates all that I am and do and it permeates how I would want to relate to each of you who reads this. I would want to let you know that the King of all the Universe...Expand for more