My name is Regina Wolfe and I moved up the beautiful Northwest 4 ½ years ago from the state of Texas. I want to paint a picture of what life was like for me in Texas. I grew up a sick child but as I grew older on in my late high school and college years, my health plummeted. I developed this illness called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity/Environmental Illness. This makes your body like a sponge that soaks up the toxins and chemicals around you and it makes an every day trip to the store near to impossible. I had my own healing regimen that I put myself on. I went into survival mode. I led a double life because I didn’t want anyone to know how bad I really was. At one point, I lived in a tent on my parent’s porch for about 6 months because I couldn’t breathe the air inside their trailer. I had a really high quality air filter that I slept next to most of the time and had a mask that I wore to help me when the air was really toxic. I tried so very hard to not be a burden to anyone so I put all this on myself and took control of my own survival and health. Other health issues came with this as well and I began to believe a lie that I wouldn’t live past the age of 30. I was convinced there was something really wrong with me.
It was a very lonely time in my life and I opened myself up to abandonment, rejection, guilt, isolation and I carried heavy burdens with me. I knew I needed to leave the environment in Texas and so I moved up to the Seattle area. I moved up seeking healing physically and emotionally but I thought I would be healed through a new age shaman practitioner or someone like that. I didn’t know God could heal supernaturally and I had turned away from Him a long ago. But, little did I know, God had plans for me and my mom told me about this ministry in Georgia called Be In Health . I went and was healed there from every illness within a few days. I went through major deliverance nearly every day for a week while I was there. I was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit. So I thought that was it. I was sold out for God, He saved me and healed me so for about a month, I worshipped God for hours a day but didn’t attend a church. After a month, God spoke to me and said it was time to go to a church and led me to Christ Church Kirkland.
I hesitated but I knew it was God and that community was a huge part of my healing as well. And I was really scared when I came because CCK was so open, real and honest and I had lived much of my life in isolation and hiding. I had never revealed my real self before. God worked on me that first year and then I knew He was telling me to do Master’s Commission in 2008-2009. That year was life changing for me because I suddenly had a whole class and leaders behind me and encouraging me. Something else that happened was my orphan mentality and father wounds were majorly being rooted up and healed because of the father’s of this house. It was huge just for people like David Morrill and Pastor Kevin McCuen asking me how my day was and talking with me. That is overflow and there is a huge calling on this house for fathers and mothers to spiritually adopt “orphans.” The Morrills invited me into their home and asked me to be a part of their family which was a huge healing in my heart as well. Now, my family is being changed. My brother heard the sound and saw the change in my life and moved up here last September. My family is being restored before my eyes. That is the power of community and it has meant everything to my life! Thank you to everyone who has sown into my life and just thank you for relationships. There is real freedom in community! I don’t have to hide any more!
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