 Well, I was born and raised in a non-Christian home. And my parents, they didn't go to church that much. They only went two times a year. That was Christmas and Easter. And so I was around a real young age, you know. And my mom passed away when I was about nine years old. And so that left me and my dad and my two sisters home because I was stayed back in the Carolinas in the woods and stuff. And as I grew up and stuff, my half relatives that lived in town, they said, well, maybe you should give your life to Christ. The reason I did it, because they want me to do it. And at that age, I didn't know nothing about Christ, giving my life to Christ and stuff. And so I said, OK, I'll do it and stuff. And so every once in a while, I would go to church. Christmas was a good time. And then the older I got, I began to get into teenage years. And I forgot all the things about going to church and stuff. Nobody made me go. My dad didn't make me go and nothing like that. And I started hanging out with the fellows at school and stuff, started drinking and carrying on and hanging out in the club. And as I got older and older, I began to get worse and worse in drinking, hanging out more, running in the ditch with my car and stuff. And I decided to get married at the age of 21. But first of all, she said, well, you need to give your life to Christ. I said, OK, we went to church. And this is one night. And we saw this picture about our left behind, and they showed it. It got kind of scary. We're seeing this picture, this movie, and these people dying and going down to hell. And I didn't want to do that. So I said, OK, I give my life to Christ and stuff. And I had this warm feeling over it, but all of a sudden it stopped. But that didn't change me. Because after that, I went right back out there and did the same thing I was doing. Drinking, going through the club. And that was a drunk. I became a drunk. I was 24, 7 drunk. I turned 25. I said, well, I need to change my life. I think I go in the military. And the guy called it another thing, other saying that they did in military, pouring over and stuff like that. And so as years went on, I continued. As years went on, I couldn't drive because I lost my license in North Carolina for seven years. And so when I was driving in the military, in the year of the last time, in December 1983, I didn't want to drink no more. Because there's some bad thing happened to me. Well, that night I left the club. And I don't remember leaving the club, getting through the barris. And so they told me, they heard that a teenager girl got raped that night. And so they hadn't been wondering, was I the one that raped this girl? That's the Lord I hope I didn't rape nobody because I don't do things like that. And so it wasn't me. And then I began to start hurting them a chance and stuff. And I told my captain that I want to go to the Retreatment Facility. When I got to the Retreatment Facility, the taste of alcohol was gone. It was gone. I didn't have no taste of alcohol. And so I came stateside. And I got a job that over here made my wife. And so I rededicated my life by the Christ. And that was the best thing I ever did. I started reading the Bible. And I started reading the Bible. Things began to change on the other side of me. I didn't know what it was. I still was a child in that. I never felt old feeling before. And then I laid on with them about two years after. I got ordained at the Deacon. And so I worked as a Deacon for many years. And so giving communion stuff, doing Deacon working stuff. And then at that church, I went to another church. And I got in there late past the ministry. I did that for a while. Then I began to usher. And I began to, I started to inquire. And I love to say, you know, I started to inquire stuff. God has changed my life, miraculous and stuff. And since this day forward, I have never took another drink of alcohol because He delivered me. I still had another issue. And so I got invited to come to the Hunger Generation. And when I got here, this is a very young church and stuff. And my first New Year's service here in Christmas I have here at the church, it was kind of crazy. You know, they bought a casket into the church, OK? I'm used to me. I'm used to seeing people. If you bring a casket in the church, they dead folks in there. So I'm sitting back in the queue. I said, should I get up and leave? Or should I stay? And so I kept, we sat down and lifted past the glad. We passed the glad, said, whatever you want to get rid of in the following year, I want you to write it on a piece of paper. And we wrote on a piece of paper and put it in the casket. And so after that, we wheeled it out to the service. We wheeled it out and put it in the barrel. And we burned it. And I think that April of that year, that's when God took it away completely. I had no more urge for cigarettes. And then I haven't smoked since about 10 years. And I haven't drank alcohol in about 30 years. My name is Larry Smith, and that's in my testimony.