Home Builders Sunday School Class

For as long as I can remember, my parents took us (me and my 2 sisters) to church every Sunday. Luckily, we lived right down the road from a Southern Baptist church in Norfolk, Virginia. I remember my father was Catholic when he met my mother, but did not practice. He started going to church with us and started to understand that what he was reading he was not practicing. He got saved in our church and was baptized and began to read the bible to us everyday and prayed at mealtime. I was 13 years old when at vacation bible school, the teacher asked for anyone who was unsaved to raise their hand. My 2 sisters had been saved and baptized before me and I knew I was not saved as she asked. I raised my hand and she spoke with me later and I went down the aisle at church the next Sunday with my mother. My mother had tears of joy and I felt the Spirit come in me and it was overwhelming, I remember writing in my diary of this wonderful experience. 

So all of us were baptized in that same church that I grew up in, except my mom who had been saved and baptized before. I joined the choir, and sang in the church, I was involved in a lot of the youth activities. Before we came to Raleigh in 1999, we had lived in Florida for 4 years and had been going to church there, everywhere we have lived, we always looked for a church. I came to First Church in 1999 after we moved here, and I was touched by the friendliness and joy I saw in everyone, I wanted to belong to a church like that, we visited other churches but I always felt at home in First Church so we joined in 2002 shortly after Tony our miracle baby was born and had his first service there. God has blessed us over and over and I want to worship and praise him in all that I do. Remember humility, patience and kindness, always cherish what you have and be thankful for everything. Today, we pray for those who are unsaved. I am happy that my whole family is saved and that I will see them again in eternity.

Annette Sampson