Bobby Cardona:

Hello my name is Bobby Cardona. I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ 3 years ago. My life up until my conversion basically consisted of aspiring to be the best criminal I could be. It was easy for me to excel in this lifestyle because all I had to do was not care about my life or the lives of others. My days were filled with drug use and committing crimes. At the age of 23, and having been incarcerated almost 8 years due to all the poor choices I had made, I began to cry out in desperation to Jesus Christ. I didn’t want to live the way I was living any longer. A few months later at a retail store here in San Angelo, a man approached me and handed me a church flyer as he said these simple words "Jesus Christ is coming back." With that statement he invited me to a church revival at the church he attended. The next day on May 14th, 2007 I tried calling the phone numbers on the flyer. Not being able to reach anyone, I debated whether I should go or not. I decided to go and showed up at the end of the service but just in time to hear the pastor giving the invitation for anyone who would like to receive Jesus Christ as Savior to raise their hand. I raised my hand and went to the altar where I knelt down to repent as someone came to pray a sinner's prayer with me. I knew that moment my sins were forgiven and I was washed by the blood of Jesus.

  Richard & Violet Rivas:
 

My name is Richard Rivas, when I started attending The Door I was not serious about my relationship with God. Until one day I found myself alone, after a long night of heavy drinking and drugging. I believe I finally hit rock bottom. I called my wife and told her I was ready to go turn myself into a drug rehab center, but she insisted that I didn't to go to rehab, she told me to call her Pastor. That evening he came over to my shop, I told him what my problem was and he simply told me that what I needed was to give my whole life to Jesus, to die to myself and get born again. Right then and there I prayed with him and asked Jesus for forgiveness and accepted Him into my heart. I thank God for saving me from drugs and alcohol, for saving my marriage and for allowing me to now serve Him. To this day I thank God for saving me from my sin and for helping me become a better father and husband, Jesus has really changed my perspectives now that I am saved.

My name is Violet Rivas, I would like to share a bit of my life transforming testimony. I come from a broken home, at the age of 6 years old my dad left my mom for another woman; I grew up with five brothers with a single mom who was always working to maintain her home. I was a tomboy and  in the eighth grade I had a relationship with another girl. I begin to live the lifestyle of a lesbian until I was a senior in high school, then I started dating boys also. I lived a confused lifestyle up until I first got saved at the age of 21 years old. I had two sons out of wed-lock, I had backslid and lived with my youngest son’s father. Feeling a void in my heart I sank deeper and deeper into drugs, going from relationship to relationship of both men and women. I could not find the right person for my life and kept going to the clubs drinking, and fighting. But one day in  1996, while I was at work, this man came in and applied for a job as a copier tech and got the job. This man begun to preach to me and gave me his testimony. He invited me to church at The Door where he was the pastor. I knew it was God who was calling me back to Himself. He was knocking on my heart's door once again. At the time I lived with my boyfriend Richard, our relationship was full of lies, fornication, cheating on one another  and indulging in cocaine, but I said yes to God. I know that it was God calling me and when I prayed I felt a burden lifted from my shoulders only to end up playing church for two years. But God broke me, He started repairing my heart, mind and soul in a glorious transformation. He set me free from the demons of homosexuality, drugs, hatred and anger. I thank God for Jesus shedding His precious blood on the cross and for paying the ultimate price so that I may be free to tell other's exactly how God has pulled me out of the pit of hell.