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Gerri Di Somma

Place of Salvation: Johannesburg, South Africa
Date of Salvation: 02/11/1983

My Story

I was born into a religious family with loving parents who took us every week to church and made sure we had learnt our memory verses. With my two brothers we won the best attendance prizes and memory verse prizes but never realy had a relationship with God. We were taught about God but was never introduced to God as Saviour and deliverer.



At the age of sixteen I left school and started working and never felt the need to continue to go to Church and simply did my own thing and that was pretty much everything, drugs, sex and rock and roll. I became a professional musician and work in Night-clubs and Strip-bars but continually found an emptiness in me that no amount of money or substance could fill or satisfied. It was while working in one of these places that I met my wife and we started dating and soon had a family which required of me to get married. Seven years later with lots of anger, hurt and disapointment in me that I started driving my family and people away from me, so much so that my wife wanted to divorce me. It was during this time that my eldest daughter had kidney failure that put the last straw on the camels back as they say. I felt hopeless, helpless and simply out of it all.



While waiting in a hospital room for my wife and daughters operation for a kidney transplant from my wife to my daughter that I saw a Gospel of St John on the table there. I began to read it and felt a wonderful sense of God's presence there, I cried out to God for help and said that if He brought my family back to me I would serve Him with the rest of my life. Jesus saved me that day and delivered my whole family and filled the incredible emptiness in my life and for once I had a relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth.



I have never looked back, it was the best decision of my life, I am now a minister of God helping other broken, lost and confused people have a real introduction and experience with the Son of God so that they too can have the emptiness in them filled and the purpose of their life revealed. Jesus said that He is the way back to our Heavenly Father, that He is the truth that sets you free from confusion, desception and the lies of the enemy of your soul and He is the Life of God that will come into you if you invite Him in. Look no further but look up to the Salvation of your soul, Jesus the Christ the Son of God.