Ivan Kerr's Testimony:

I was brought up in a Christian home, and from a young age I was taken to church and Sunday school and I knew what it was to be a Christian. I have two sisters and a brother and they were all Christians. Many a night before going to sleep they told me if they died they would all be going to Heaven except me.

My parents had a time every day when they read the Bible and prayed. On a Saturday morning they always had it later and when I was out playing I kept disturbing them and as a result was made to stay in until they had finished and without fail they asked God to save me so that they could have household salvation. When I went to secondary school things were different. I was arguing with the rest of the class that I wasn’t a Christian. They assumed I was a Christian because I didn’t go to dances, drink, smoke and went to church. Looks and actions can be deceptive.

I started working in an engineering factory and one day we heard that someone had been killed by one of the machines. This made me think what if it had been me and I wasn’t right with God. This thought didn’t last too long. I was still going to church and the Young Peoples Meeting every week. Things looked fine from the outside but I knew that the inside wasn’t right. When I was 16 we had an outreach coffee bar in our Young Peoples Meeting and on the Friday night I gave my heart to the Lord. That was in 1967.

I am married and have a son and a daughter and I thank God that there is household salvation. About seven years ago in our prayer meeting Donald said he wanted to ask me a question and my answer could not be no. He asked if I would be part of a team to drive aid to Belarus. I said that I would think about it. I went home and told my wife what Donald had said to me. My wife was talking to my daughter on the phone and said that my daughter wanted to speak to me. At this time my daughter was working with students in Ukraine for a year with a student missionary organization.

The first thing she said to me was that she heard I was going to Belarus and I said I didn’t know. She said that I always said I couldn’t preach but I could drive so what was the problem. I didn’t have an answer. So I went to Belarus. I also drove to Ukraine twice and about that time ‘Faith in Action Missions’ was formed as a charity.

I have been to Ukraine for the last five years and I have seen God supplying the needs in the Christian schools, orphanages, prisons, hospitals and also in a rehabilitation centre for ex-prisoners and a rehabilitation centre for drug and alcohol addicts. The Christian life is not easy but God is there to help us through each day.

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