My name is Joseph Farmer. My family had always attended a missionary baptist church except for my dad. I always sat there in church, always heard the preacher " yell" at me wondering why he was yelling. I never paid attention and usually had toys to play with. We went to a little church called Greenfield Missionary Baptist Church. There were many churches in Robertson County, TN that bore the name "missionary baptist" but we fellowship with only 2 other churches in Robertson County, Williams Chapel MBC and Lula MBC. My dad went to church with us about once a year. This particular Sunday in Greenbrier, TN at Greenfield MBC, there was a dinner, so my dad came. As for the dinner, it was delayed. I had heard the preacher talk about hell many times, unaffected. This Sunday, one of the song requests was a song called Where We'll Never Grow Old. As we sang it, I thought about what the preacher had been preaching all my life. I took to the words of the song as it talked about a place where we'd never grow old. It talked about a beautiful world where no pain or heartache can enter. I thought about what the preacher said about hell and that if I was not saved when I died then my soul would be delivered to hell. As we sang the song, a burden of grief set up in my heart. I later learned this was called conviction. I balled my little eyes out. My mom knelt beside me and one of the deacons came and talked to me. Although I was not at th mourners' bench I was still just praying as hard as i could. Before long I felt the peaceful Spirit enter my soul. I never shall forget that day. Others were convicted that night. I can't remember if they were saved, but I remember seeing them pray to God and I saw the people praying for them. One of the greatest blessings below the actual salvation was that my dad witnessed it on the one day he came every year. Eight years after I was saved he decided after much chastisement to get right with God once more. He testified about being saved as a boy. He was baptized in the Red River and joined Williams Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. I thank God every day for these wonderful blessings. Dear sinner friends, if you are not saved my the Lord, our God, then you need to get right with God, Repeat-a-prayers, baptism, and good works will not save your soul. Go to him and ask mercy lest you burn in a devil's hell.

Joseph Farmer