Team Member: April Busic

My Personal Testimony,

I grew up in Chester, WV. I wasn’t raised by biological parents. My earliest memory in childhood was my brother raping me at an early age of seven, mother lying in bed with strange men all the time, drinking, druggin, and never home with us, being in bars as a child. Mother took me and my sister to her best friend’s house and never came back for us. The next time I saw my mom was in 1985 shipped home from California in a pine box deceased. I never knew my father, he left mom when I was 3 weeks old.

I lived with my mom’s best friend the rest of my childhood and her husband. I was nine years old then, was molested ten years of my life by their son. By the age of thirteen I started drinking whiskey, then age fifteen marijuana. I graduated from High School and started having children, still heavy into addiction and ended up with five children to five different men. My adoptive family both went home to the Lord in 2003 and 2004. The day that we buried my mother, they came and took the children. From 2004 on until 2006 I did heavy drugs every single day. I just wanted to die, no more pain. I had been in and out of jail so many times and then I committed a crime that sent me to prison for a year.

I started searching for God inside those walls and then I got out. Eventually the probation department sent me to a halfway house and drug program. I was willing and tired of jail, tired of the life style, I just wanted to be loved by someone just the way I was. Went to halfway house and was determined to succeed at life. I went searching for God and looking for something more than I could see or feel.

I went to New Life Weirton and truly gave my life to the Lord and was delivered from drugs and alcohol. I was set free from all the ways of the world. Now I am currently in the International School of Ministry.

I now know through Christ Himself that I am loved with an unfailing love and He took the time to help me be who I am today. I love serving the Lord; this ministry feels natural to me. There is nothing I would rather do than serve the Lord. He is the lover of my soul.

God Bless,
April Busic