Edna Beckner

I praise God for His great love to me. I didn’t have a Christian home. Our home was filled with sorrow. I never heard my mother and father pray. But there was one thing my mother did tell me, and that was that I would have to stand before God and give an account for every sin in my life.

One day I went to my brother’s home in Montana to spend the winter with him. I was a brokenhearted person. My life was full of sin, and I was disappointed in this world. I went there thinking I would soon be forgotten. I didn’t expect to live very long.

I had only been in my brother’s home a few days when he gave me a church paper that had been published in Portland, Oregon. I began to compare it with the Bible and found out that it contained just what I was wanting and what my heart was longing for. I thank God I gave my life to Jesus, and He has been with me down through these many, many years. Jesus is no respecter of persons, and I thank Him that He included me. He has given me strength to press on.

My life was full of sin, and I was disappointed in this world.

He has been my Healer and Physician. I have never had to turn to the arm of flesh. Jesus came and healed me many years ago when I was sick in this city, and He raised me up. The doctor had to be called, but he would have nothing to do with my case. They had to call another doctor, but I am so glad Jesus came and healed me and raised me up without the physician’s help.

Thank God for the privilege I have had to be in Portland, Oregon. My daughter and I have been in the Gospel fifty-seven years now, and for about nineteen years we both have worked in the headquarters mailing department, helping to send out these Light of Hope papers to needy and hungry hearts and point them to Jesus who saved us.

This is my home now. When the Lord saved me it wasn’t in a beautiful place like this, but it was a small place downtown in Port Angeles, Washington. They didn’t have any orchestra or special singing. There were just two organs, but I am glad Jesus was there. I am happy to be here, and the desire of my heart is to press on until Jesus returns.