Anna Butler

I thank God for His people who love all races. There was a time when I didn’t care to associate with those who were white, because I felt inferior, being an Indian. I thought that the white people didn’t care for us. Then I came into contact with God’s people, and found those who love all races and colors.

I was an unbeliever. I didn’t believe there was a Heaven and I didn’t believe there was a God. Thank God, He can deal with even a person like I was.  In His love and mercy, God had to deal with me quite strenuously. I lost my health and was upon a sickbed near death. That started me wondering if there was a God. I feared death and didn’t want to die, but I was in a hospital with no hope. I purposed in my heart that if I ever returned home alive, I would start going to church and I would find out for myself if there was a real God. He saw that little spark of honesty in my heart and He allowed me to go home.

A short time after I came home, a group of Apostolic Faith Church people came to Neah Bay and told me I needed to be born again. I thought, I have never done anything really bad, and only those who commit great crimes are sinners. But the Lord dealt with me, showing me that anger, bitterness, hatred, envy, and even the love of the world are sin. Then I was willing to go down on my knees and ask the Lord to have mercy on me, a sinner. At the foot of the Cross, I found the peace and joy I was trying to find in the pleasures of the world.

I have had the privilege of bringing up my children in a Christian home. I was brought up in a home of unbelief, so I thank God my children know the right way to go.

Jesus is a wonderful Healer. We had a son dying of leukemia. There was nothing the doctors could do; he was failing day by day. One day my husband and I got down on our knees and consecrated our lives as we had never done before. The Lord came down and touched that boy and made him every whit whole. When we took him to the hospital for a checkup, there wasn’t a trace of that disease left in his body. Today he is well and healthy.

I praise God for His love to me.