BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

she says. "We drove to the airport and parked where we could see planes landing at night. While sitting there, we listened to messages by Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Hagin." While playing volleyball in college, Terry tore a ligament in her ankle. "It hadn't healed right, and I'd limped on it ever since," she recalled. "Until I met James, I hadn't been taught about healing, so I asked him for one of those cassette tapes. He gave me 'The Exodus' by Kenneth Copeland. The Holy Ghost ministered to me from it and things fi nally clicked. I called James and said, 'I'm healed by the stripes of Jesus! I just got it!' After that healing, neither of us could get enough of those teachings. "We married in July of 1989. When I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with our fi rst child, we were too hungry for the things of God to stay home. We drove from Fresno to Anaheim to attend the West Coast Believers' Convention. We made it to one meeting before I went into labor! "Later, the Lord directed us to attend Rhema [Bible Training Center] in Tulsa, Okla. I had earned an associate degree in theology at West Coast Christian College. We both earned our bachelor's degrees through Life Christian University. In 1992, we moved to Dallas and attended Christ For The Nations. Afterward, we moved to Tulsa to attend Rhema. James attended for two years and graduated. In 1995. I enrolled and graduated in 1997." During that time, James and Terry were blessed with two more children. A daughter, Sarah, was born in 1993. Then their son, James, came along three years later. Planting a Church With plans to start a church, James and Terry asked God to send them to an area where most people hadn't heard the Word of Faith. They ended up in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1997. The following year, they planted Faith World Outreach Center. They sowed the Word of God and love into the congregation for years. What the church congregation lacked in size, it more than made up for in faithfulness and kindness, says James. In 2016, a group from the church traveled with James and Terry to Fort Worth, Texas, to attend the Southwest Believers' Convention. Their son, James, had been in rebellion, but during one of their trips to SWBC he rededicated his life to Jesus. No one B V O V : 1 3 knew, however, that stopping the synthetic form of marijuana cold turkey could cause psychosis. Back home, their son had to be admitted to a mental institution. Doctors urged James and Terry to read about and study mental illness, James recalled, telling them their son's condition was not drug related. "You'll be dealing with mental illness for the rest of his life," they were told. "We refused to accept that," James says. "After a couple of weeks, the Lord told us to stop visiting him. We were told to focus on the church and leave our son in God's hands. That was hard, but we did it. "One day James called us in his right mind. He asked if we would take him home and help him get rid of any spirit he'd allowed through an open door. We did that and found something interesting. James could confess that Jesus was Lord. He could say everything except one thing. He couldn't say, 'I hear the voice of the Good Shepherd, and a stranger I will not follow.' "We didn't experience huge breakthroughs until we started attending the meetings in person. It also helped when our members started attending as well."

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