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Lindsay Lindsay KGF

I grew up in a Christian home with a great church family and I accepted Christ into my life at age 4.  I attended a Christian school, was baptized at age 12. My most earnest prayer throughout my teen years was that God would reveal himself to me and I would experience His love and His truth as I grew in my faith. After high school I went to attend a year of Bible college. At age 19, I was married to my boyfriend of 3 years. Both of us had big dreams to be used by God.  However, the year and a half that followed led him far away from God and left me completely broken, wondering where God was and desperately searching for answers to that which I knew I could not fix or change.  I was left alone, crying out to God for his direction, and with a tiny sweet baby whom God was entrusting me to love and provide for.

Through this time of singleness and motherhood, God revealed himself to me and I experienced his grace in a whole new way.  He was love, he was my provider, and he was faithful to me, even when all I had trusted had failed.

Psalm 34:4-5 says "I prayed to the Lord and he answered me, freeing me from all my fears. Those who look to Him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces."  I watched as God took something broken in me, and turned it into something beautiful.  Though Satan had intended to harm me, God had used it for good. I have learned that I can trust my Lord, that He is my hiding place, and ”whom shall I fear"? 

He has restored my life, and used my pain for His glory. Today, I am blessed to have a wonderful husband who chooses to love and serve God and his family. He is on the same path towards God as I am. We have two boys and count it a privilege and a blessing to raise them to know and love Jesus. God is so good.

I have a passion to help others know our God, who takes broken lives and shattered dreams, and brings beauty and joy into life again. We were meant to live for so much more than what this life can offer us. We serve a God who loves without limits and whose power is unmeasured. If we can learn to rest in Him, He will carry us through the storm and teach us to enjoy the journey with Him. He is a God who has good plans for us, and gave his life that we might have life in all its fullness.  This is the God I love and serve.

Psalm 73:26  "My health may fail and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever".

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Mike Penninga

Mike Penninga is first a foremost a son of God, a husband of Michelle, a father of 3, and a pretty good tennis player. A grad of Trinity Western University and ACTS seminary with a background in broadcast journalism, Mike has a passion for sharing the life changing news of Jesus Christ in understandable and captivating ways. He has been the lead pastor at KGF since March 2009.

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