Mina Christiansen

While living in Minnesota with my brother, I became hungry for the Gospel. I prayed and asked the Lord to send someone to guide me. In answer to my prayer, I received an Apostolic Faith paper. After reading it, I felt this was what I wanted.

I knelt by my bedside and prayed. I repented, and such a peace came into my heart. Afterwards, I was afraid to go to sleep, thinking it would leave me. I had never seen anybody get saved, therefore I didn’t understand it. Finally, I did go to bed, and the next morning that wonderful peace was still in my heart.

In 1919, I wrote to the Apostolic Faith Church in Portland and asked them to pray for me to be healed. I had contracted polio when I was just twelve years old, and it left me crippled, needing to use a wheelchair. God made a way for me to go to Portland where they were holding a camp meeting in the Rose City district. Everything was new to me and my heart was so hungry for more of God that I wanted to go to all the meetings.  

I heard about sanctification for the first time, but knew nothing about it. I stayed with Sister Rodman after the camp meeting ended, and God saw the hunger in my heart. When I sought earnestly for sanctification, He sanctified my soul.

I sought for still more of God, and the Lord baptized me with the Holy Ghost and fire at the Apostolic Faith Church on Front and Burnside.

God has taken care of me all down through the years. The Lord has given me strength and I have been able to make my own living all these years. Many times I have been afflicted, but the Lord has undertaken for me, and I thank Him for what He has done for me.