Testimony of Cyndi Steele
My name is Cyndi Steele and I live in Fishersville, Virginia. I would like to tell you how I became a Christian.
My parents, who were raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved to Massachusetts so my Dad could practice medicine in the Boston area. I was born at the end of World War II. We attended church every Sunday and I heard the stories about Jesus but never heard about accepting Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. I always thought I was a Christian because we went to church.
After graduation from college, I was married discovering too late that I had married a chronic alcoholic. My life was miserable. In 1969, I was in the hospital following a miscarriage. My Dad came to visit and shared with me the “Four Spiritual Laws”. While I was in college, Dad and Mom had accepted Christ at a Billy Graham Crusade in Boston. Mom had tried to share with me but I would not listen to her. The night when Dad shared with me, I was finally ready. Christ came into my life and I have never been the same. I no longer wanted alcohol and that life style. Things got worse in my marriage and because my life was threatened with a gun, my parents encouraged me to file for divorce. I tried to work out the marriage but he didn’t want me back. After seven years of total turmoil the marriage ended in divorce.
The next year was somewhat shaky. The church I attended had no classes devoted to divorced singles so I got involved in a coed singles class. I really did not fit in and they did not understand what I was going through.
Later I was encouraged to apply to work with Campus Crusade for Christ in California. I was accepted to work as an hourly at Arrowhead Springs. After arriving in California, I met a wonderful Christian man, Joe Steele, at the church I was attending. What attracted me most to him was his love for the Lord. He taught a wonderful Bible study for singles that I started attending. We fell in love and were married the following year. Five months after we were married, I got pregnant with our only child, David.
It was a bit shaky at the beginning of our marriage. I had brought old baggage of fears and resentments from my first marriage. But with us both being Christians and wanting to make our marriage work, we have improved and strengthened our marriage through marriage seminars and Christian books.
Last year we moved to Virginia to take care of my 92 year old widowed mother and to be near our son who lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia who is married to a wonderful Christian woman.
I praise God for what He has done in my life and look forward to the future and what He has in store for me.
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