Ken Fitzpatrick:
CLASS OF 1966
Adam Scott High SchoolClass of 1966
Peterborough, ON
McMaster UniversityClass of 1970
Hamilton, ON
St. Anne SchoolClass of 1960
Peterborough, ON
St. John the Baptist SchoolClass of 1960
Peterborough, ON
Sacred Heart Catholic SchoolClass of 1960
Peterborough, ON
Ken's Story
I was born into a God fearing family and knew God personally from a very early age of say 5 or 6 but the hardships of life I experienced caused me to become angry and embittered with God. This brought greater and greater darkness and I foresook my faith for a life of the pursuit of pleasure.
When I came to an end of myself I was working as a resource person, a graphic arts instructor in an Inuit village in Noveau Quebec. I worked under the Canadian Arts council of the Government of Canada and the Federation of Inuit cooperatives.
One day a woman I was training as a printmaker told me her husband a white man was worried about me so I went to see him to find out why. He asked me why I was fighting God and I asked him who Jesus was. He answered me from Ephesians 2:8 that He was the gift of God, a sacrifice for sin and that if I believed in Him, he would freely forgive me and give me eternal life and send His Holy Spirit to live within me. I believed. I said there could be no other way. I had tried being good and that didn't work. I was raised to think that the good went to heaven and the bad to hell not realizing that there is none good that all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. I believed.
The next day I awoke and was so oppressed I could not get off my bed. I prayed for my friend to come and before I knew it he was there in my room in the print shop building. When I got up to meet him my backside as it where opened from shoulder to hip and an evil spirit came up out of me. I started to get sick because it was so repulsive and smelt so bad and I had to swallow to keep my food down. I asked my friend if he had seen what I had and I can only remember his eyes growing wide and mouth dropping in amaze...Expand for more
ment. We both got out of that room immediately. My life changed in an instant and has remained so until today. I went to Bible School for a time to learn God's word and have good fellowship in order to free myself from the devil who didn't give up on me easily. It was about two years before he stopped troubling me in an overt way.
Halfway through Bible school the Lord led me to do street ministry by carrying sandwich boards around with Gospel messages on them and I supported myself by driving School bus and washing buses. I saw God use me in many wonderful ways.
I married a single mother with an 8 year old son but the marriage ended in divorce when she disliked my rising early to pray. My heart didn't seem to be able to heal and I prayed God for a new start. A job opened up for me teaching English as a second language in Korea. Over the space of a year my heart healed and my church in Canada prayed over me and sent me out again to Korea as a lay missionary supporting myself by teaching English. I taught in private institutes, company lectures universities and finally for a time I was Dean of Students at Ami Bible School and was the International coordinator for Ami Satellite broadcasting.
I married a Korean widow with one son and after a down turn in the economy ended my retirement home teaching I returned to Canada. My wife has permanent residency now and is taking her test as a licensed hair stylist. She is 12 years younger than me. I am active in church work and have begun to make art works for sale as an extra source of income. Our son is a licensed Korean architect and is studying carpentry now at George Brown College so that he can build as well as design. He lives with us and is still single.
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