The Pastor’s wife of Grace and Truth Baptist Church of Goa India. I was born and raised in a good Christian family in the United States. At a very early age, I was taught about the Lord and His Word. I thought I was saved at a young age, but it was not until I attended a Summer Bible Camp in Utah at the age of twelve-years-old that I realized that I was not saved. I went for two to three months after coming back from Bible Camp struggling with the fact of knowing I was not saved. It was a Sunday morning before church, while I was talking to my dad, when I finally accepted the God’s gift of salvation and I trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour.
Since the Lord saved me on that Sunday, the Lord began to do a great work in my life. I fell in love with my God and His Word, and I began to grow as a Christian. I honestly do not know what influenced me to want to serve the Lord in India, but I remember not too long after I was saved I was having my daily devotions with the Lord and I knew without a doubt the Lord had called me to India. I felt the Lord had saved me so I could lead people of India to Christ. I knew nothing about India, and I had not ever met a Missionary to there. I began to read everything I could about India. Once a week my mom would take us to the library, and I would sit on the floor in the library looking through books about India. I would sit there looking over and over again at the people there. I would tell the Lord, “This is the worst and darkest place a person can go, so yes Lord here I am, send me.” Every day I would pray for God to prepare me to go there, and I would pray for the Missionaries there that were trying to win the people of India to Christ. After sharing with my parents about my calling to India, they bought me three missionary stories. The biographical stories were of Amy Carmichael to India, Grace Chang to China, and Rebekkah Pearl to Papua New Guinea. Through reading about the lives of these women, I desired for the Lord to give me the passion they had for serving the Lord and serving other people.
Growing up in a Missionary/ Pastor’s family, I had many opportunities to serve the Lord as a teenager in the church. I enjoyed helping my parents in the ministry, and I was eager to help in any way I could. After leaving the home, I continued to serve the Lord in every church that I was in. Throughout the years, I have had the opportunity to led children Bible clubs and VBS; play the piano and organ; teach Sunday School and Jr. church; work in bus ministries, nursing home ministries, and nursery ministries; teach woman bible studies; counsel at children Summer Bible camps and at children Bible programs in the public schools. Through all of these opportunities to minister to souls, the Lord was preparing me to serve Him full-time. I praise the Lord for these many opportunities throughout the years.
After graduating from High School, I went to attend Landmark Baptist Bible College in Haines City, Florida. I was only there for a year but during my time there I was able to meet Godly people who loved the Lord and I learned much about the Bible and Christian service. After coming back from Bible College, I began my journey in nursing. I started off working as a Certified Nurse Assistant/ Medication Aid and then I began to work up the ladder as a Licensed Practical Nurse and then finally as Registered Nurse. Throughout my training as a nurse, I felt the Lord was preparing for me for something special. I learned the value of hard work, staying strong even when things are tough, dealing with all ages of people and in all different situations, and relying on the Lord for strength and guidance. Even though I grew to love nursing, I still was empty and dissatisfied with my life. My heart’s desire was to be in India serving the Lord full-time.
One night after a stressful day of nursing classes, I began to beg the Lord to break me and open the door to serve Him on the mission field in India. I was twenty-seven years old, and I did not want the Lord to come back when I had not done what He called me to do. One afternoon, I got online and began searching for a KJV Baptist church in India where I could serve the Lord. The only website that came up was Grace and Truth Baptist Church of Goa India pastored by Lordson Roch. I immediately recognized the name of the Pastor and realized that I had been listening to his sermons online for the past two years and had grown immensely in Christ under his preaching. I was very excited to see he was a Pastor in India, and I began to follow his ministry through the church website. One day I got the courage to email Pastor Lordson Roch through the church website. I shared with him my calling as a child to India and how I was very excited to find that there was a KJV Baptist church in India and that I was praying for the ministry there in Goa. My desire in sending the email to the Pastor Lordson Roch was to see if he would be interested in me coming to India to help him in his ministry. I had no idea that Pastor Lordson Roch was a thirty-year-old single man who had been praying seven years for a wife to help him in the ministry there in India. When Pastor Lordson Roch heard of my burden and call to India, he started praying to God if I was the wife God had for him. We began to stay in touch and got to know each other well. Lordson sent me a letter asking me to pray about becoming his wife and helping him in the ministry in India. I began to pray and search for the Lord’s will for my life. In a very short time, the Lord revealed to Lordson and I that we were made for each other and that it was the Lord’s will for us serve Him together in India. Lordson sent a letter to my dad asking for my hand in marriage. My parents obtained peace from that Lord that it was God’s will for me marry Lordson and serve the Lord India, and they gave us their full blessings.
On June 9, 2013, Lordson and I were joined together in marriage, and we began our new life as husband and wife. I am very happy to be living with my beloved husband in India and actively serving the Lord at Grace and Truth Baptist Church. I am humbled by God’s hand in my life and how He has guided me every step of the way according to His will. I can never praise the Lord enough for counting me worthy enough to serve Him alongside of Pastor Lordson Roch in this darkened land of India that is ready for harvest. My desire is that my life maybe an example of Christ’s love and that in everything I do I may bring honor and glory to His name. I ask for your prayers that the Lord may use me to be a vessel that maybe used of Him to bring many souls to Christ.