 My name is Jennifer Ellery. I've been attending a cornerstone Baptist Church for the past two years. And I'd like to share my testimony with you today that God might be glorified. And I can say thank you for His amazing grace to me. My church history includes 30 years of Catholicism, 12 years in the way ministry, which was a charismatic fellowship. Ten years of non-denominational mega churches, and the past five, almost six years, has been with biblical reformed churches and ministries. I was raised in a close loving family with hardworking parents who sacrificed much to provide for us and to bless us. And I left this home of great blessing and went to college. Though it was only two hours from home, it was the far country of Louis XV, the story of the carnival sign. It was there, loose and riotous living with what characterized my life. After graduating from college, I moved to the more distant country of Southern California, where the same lifestyle continued. I was exceedingly selfish and self-serving. I hurt and I abandoned those that I should have loved, those that I should have nurtured and those that I should have sacrificed for, because when I left Kentucky I had my three-year-old daughter in the care of her paternal grandmother. I destroyed many relationships. I justified my sin, I blamed others for everything. I only cared about myself. I obsessed about how I looked, because it gained in me what I thought was acceptance, approval and significance. I was deep into the Southern California lifestyle. I spent hours in the gym every day, and I gloried in my worldly success. I thank God for all the but-gods in my life. Amen. But God had graciously lit my heart to His Word. Even as a child in the Roman Catholic Church, I always was attentive and enjoyed the scripture readings. As an adult, I was about 29 years old. When I was drawn to the Way Ministry, this was in San Diego, and it was because of the scripture focus. After years in the Way Ministry, I began noticing discrepancy between what was taught and what was in the Word of God that I was reading. I asked questions that got insufficient answers. It was at that time that I prayed and I asked that God would show me what was true. As God began showing me truth, the Word convicted me of my sin, and I could no longer sin with ease. On a drive from Phoenix to San Diego, I was praying and I wanted to tell God that I loved Him, that I only got to the L of love, and I couldn't finish. When a flood of tears followed, because I knew I loved my sin and not God. I continued in the Word and the conviction grew, sin consequences and damaged relationships compounded that conviction, and I walked away from a sinful relationship. My desire for God's truth and knowledge of Him grew, and then everything went sideways. Extreme stress in my job, my health was impacted and I no longer wanted those things that I embraced. But God used those circumstances to get me out of Southern California, out of the job and out of the far country. I had not planned to move back to Kentucky, but God directed my steps. I'm thankful that He did. He actually kept me there in some pretty amazing ways. You don't have that kind of time, but in staying in Kentucky, He restored the relationship with my daughter and He restored the relationship with my mom, and God did that. But God, but God was pursuing me, and I thank Him. I'm sorry, I love you sister, but do you think you're kidding? But Jen, younger brother Jen did not come to her senses. She did not go to the forgiving, compassionate father. She ran past Him to the other side and became the older brother. I became exceedingly self-righteous, knowledge puffed me up, and how I looked morally became everything to me. I was the white-washed therapy, feeding again on being approved of and accepted by others. I listened to every radio ministry. I read all kinds of quote-unquote Christian books. I was the simple one, the open door of Proverbs 1.4, allowing everything into my mind. I was the gullible, weak-willed woman on 2nd Timothy 3, who had no discernment. I was always learning, but never coming to a knowledge of the truth. Then I began attending the Becket Churches, and a thick layer of emotional hype and experience was laid onto a mountain of works' righteousness, charismatic chaos and idolatry. It was on this that I added a full measure of pride and arrogance, and you have the perfect storm. My brother of 1618 says that with pride and a haughty spirit comes destruction in a great fall. And the fall was extremely humiliating and it was very public, and the white wash that was stripped away from the younger brother was stripped away and the younger brothers of souings and readings were exposed for all to see. It was exposed too for me to begin seeing my sin as it was in truth, a wicked rebellion against the Holy God. Opposition from that fall continued for years, but God, but God was graciously pursuing me. I thank him for these years, because during these years it was God who illuminated the scriptures, growing me and my knowledge of him in his gun. It was God who brought me biblical ministries, churches and faithful shepherds and preached the whole council of God's word and the first work of Jesus Christ. It was God who opened my eyes and gave me a heart of flesh. God taught me how to flesh and to grieve over my sin. He taught me to understand that all I deserved was an eternity and how long I could not save myself. It was God who gifted me with a faith to repent and believe the gospel. It was God and by his grace he granted the faith for me to trust in Jesus Christ and have a loan for my salvation. I thank God, my Father, for his amazing grace, for his rich mercy and great love to me. I thank my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, for fulfilling all righteousness for bearing my awful, awful load. I thank him for paying the debt to do my sins. I thank the Holy Spirit, my God, for guiding me into all truth for applying Christ's predictive work and making me alive in Christ Jesus. I thank him for clothing me in Christ's righteousness. As a new creation in Christ Jesus, ceasing from sin and self, I now desire that God be glorified. I want to live for him, serve his people, exalt the name of Christ, share the gospel of his grace and worship him forever. I thank God for leading me to cornerstone Baptist Church and this day I praise and I thank him for saving a wretched life for me. I now make a formal request to covenant with this church as a member and a fellow worker for this kingdom. Yeah, yeah, with a microphone. It's a joy to have Jennifer with us and I know many of you have been blessed to see Jennifer grow in the time that she's been here. Amen. Her testimony today is a great encouragement. It should be a blessing to all of us and just magnify the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. I'm grateful that Jennifer's here. It's a joy to baptize her based upon her faith in Jesus Christ. Trust him alone. We're based on Jennifer's commitment to serve Christ as a member of our church. We baptize Jennifer, the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Thank you so much.