Story 05

Evangel Temple Assembly of God

I was raised Baptist my entire life, had a vision of Jesus when I was in high school and wanted to go to a church or find spiritual guidance to help with my walk with God.

I finally went to Evangel Temple right after high school.

Side note: I also wrestled having same sex attraction which nobody has the answers to, despite certain individuals claiming to be free. It took years for me to figure out the ones claiming to be free usually only wrestled with same sex attraction to a likely much smaller degree and were able to marry and have a family. Everyone’s case is different, but I found a lot of dishonesty regarding that.

So I had that going on too. I decided to do the internship program at evangel temple even though I had a job because I thought I would be mentored by the youth/young adult pastor. That was not the case at all. They assigned me to a much younger assistant not much older than I was. He was young and didn’t have any good advice. One time he wrote “homosexuality” on a piece of paper and circled it. And basically told me that was my “sin” and I needed to focus on cleansing that.

Also the internship turned more into me just giving free labor to the church without pay. There were times I used my own car, gas and expenses to run errands for the church without ever being compensated.

I did receive the gift of tongues in my car on my parents driveway when I was just praying. Nobody laid hands on me or prayed. The youth/young adult pastor couldn’t care less about me though and shrugged it off.

Around the time I eventually left to go to an apostolic center (which is a whole other story.) the youth/young adult pastors wife was caught with another woman. Which honestly I suspected the entire time because of how they were acting around each other.

I did get to know the people in the churches sound booth and technology team, and the main pastor was an absolute a** toward them.