Nellie Carlson

In 1926, my mother and brother traveled to Portland, Oregon, from Lopez Island, seeking for something more real than what the nominal churches could offer. They decided they wanted something deeper spiritually and they knew of two members of their church on Lopez Island, Brother and Sister Alba Green, who had moved to Portland in 1921 to attend the Apostolic Faith Church.

Upon arriving in Portland, my mother and brother found that the Apostolic Faith was just what they had been looking for, so they stayed.

After my husband’s mother passed away, I wanted to be near my mother in her last days. My husband was willing, so after he got out of the Navy in 1946, we moved to Portland. God had saved my soul some years before, but my heart was hungry for more of the Lord. I had been receiving literature from the Apostolic Faith and had visited a couple of times. One day, while kneeling by my davenport and reading a tract on sanctification, the Lord came and wonderfully sanctified my soul. My son has told me, since he grew up, that he knew something had happened to me, because I was so different after the Lord sanctified me.

God saved my husband while he was in the hospital, just before the Lord took him Home. The Lord has been with me down through the years, and I thank Him. I am also grateful that I am able to work for Him, helping to send out literature to hungry souls, and also that I can be a witness for Him.