I want my family to get this . How do I get this to my family ? Because none of my family has salvation . And he told her this is a to me . This is a woman that's dying . You should know she's dying and her most important , I guess , legacy we could say was for her .
I mean , at that time we probably had 90 people in the family on the mother's side 90 and 100 people in , yeah , and all her siblings were alive . She was the first one of them to die . Yes , and besides the baby that died when it was a baby , yeah , a week old or something like that , I think .
But her most important question was how do I take salvation to her family ? But there's a story , I mean , yeah , there's always a story about our mom . Yeah , and well , I'm not going to let you go . When our mom , when we moved to East Texas and our mom was getting sick all the time , they finally found out that she had colon cancer and she winded up .
They pulled a 16 pound tumor out of her colon . She had to have a colostomy bag and she had to have a . It was a port that went into her heart , the main artery of her heart , where they would give her radiation treatments ?
Yes , and so when that was going on , my mom had decided to start going to church and she started taking me to church and we were going to Tyler Metro Church and Nobody's smileable , I love I don't . She went up when you said that , yeah , and it was so much to the story . Well , she , as we were going to that church , she received salvation .
And then there was one particular Sunday where the pastor was talking about being baptized . And well , she was sitting in the pew and she was crying . And then she went up to walk the aisle and of course I went with her because I was only like 10 . And it was just me and her that went . Nobody went with us .
And so she had told the pastor that she wanted to do this , she wanted to be baptized , but she couldn't because she had that colostomy bag and she couldn't be submerged underwater . And so she was crying and he said he said no , man . He said baptism is not the most important . He said you received salvation .
And she said yes , sir , and we knew she did , because she totally changed . She went from being a fighter punch you in your face If you talk to her to being a oh well , it'd be fine . You know , move everyone . Okay , she was totally different person . And so he told her you don't have to be baptized .
Should you be baptized , you know , to honor God and to let the world know that you're following her ? Yes , but if you can't , that's not your way into heaven . And she said well , I want my family to get this . How do I get this to my family ? Because none of my family has salvation . And he told her this is a to me .
This is a woman that's dying , if you know she's dying , and her most important , I guess , legacy we could say was for her . I mean , at that time we probably had 90 people in the family on my mother's side , 900 people then , yeah , all her siblings were alive . She was the first one of them to die .
Yes , and besides , the baby that died when it was a baby , yeah , a week old or something like that , I think . But her most important question was how do I take salvation to my family ? How do I get them to get it ? You know , he said you just tell them your testimony , you tell them how you came to Christ and you tell them what he did for you .
And so that's where she began and through her death we've learned that her dad , her mom and her sister one of her sisters before they died , all received salvation and it's just been carried on . I mean it's drifting down . So , yeah , I mean , and that's where our ministry is called Hills Angels , because our mom's maiden name was Hills H-A-L-E-S .
So that's where that came about . We wanted to honor her and but leave the legacy of Jesus Christ . Yes , so our purpose is the legacy of Jesus Christ , but the honor of our mom . Yes , you know , and to carry on her I guess you could say her dying wish , yeah , yeah , and to bring it to our take her dying wish and bring that to our family .
Yes , so , to this day , I went to visit with my uncle a few weeks ago , which is the oldest uncle , the oldest brother to our sister , who is now , and now he went to church , him and his wife went to church , but they also had left West Texas and so they were leaving Lackin' Alice and it was just their family . Yeah , and so we've since discovered that .
And to this day , my cousin , which is their only child , he's been reading the Bible a lot , but he also buys like booklets for his dad who is I think he's 80 , 80 something Let me not miss quote my uncle's and yet , but he looks like he's about 60 .
Oh , he does , yes , he's like , but he buys these booklets for him like mark , so he reads the mark , then he gets Matthew , you know , look John , and I think he's in Romans now . And then we have another uncle , his name is Texas Mack . Yeah , and that is an ingestion , that .
And he started a Bible study group at his house in West Texas where we were born and raised , and he does this Bible study group that now goes from One house to the yes , to the next and several of our cousins attend that Bible study . Yes , and so , yeah , I mean , really , it's all about God where he pulled this from .
You know , when our mom died , it became , it became and it became so real I'm and she was the first one in our entire family to die for it to be that a tragic death where everyone was , but she was the oldest sister , she was the oldest , you know . So that that also puts in a like a dynamic .
Yeah , you know , in the family it crushed a lot of , a lot of our , our family .
Hmm , her death did and and I think that that's that played a part in what happened with us and our brothers was , instead of having God as our foundation in our family , we had each other put in different , the wrong role , you know , and we had our mom Up where she shouldn't have been , which happened .
And and when we lost her , she got a claim to something yes , somebody's gotta be the foundation , yes , and so I think that that a lot of times people don't realize it when they say , oh , she's my rock , or oh , she's , he's my rock , or , but my mom was never my role . We should have never put her in that position .
She should have never been a rock , because she wasn't , she was human . And so when we did lose her , it crushed us and my brothers and my dad took it the worst . I think I took it a little , but I was so young that I didn't quite understand what was happening . How do you live to live , spiral war out of actual , and I went into survival mode .
It was kind of glue , yes , no thing again , yes , yeah , jesus was always my rock . Yet , like , I didn't look at my mom as my rock . Well , she couldn't , you couldn't , because mom didn't , she didn't treat you well , she didn't favor me right ? Yeah , she didn't . She didn't treat you , so we arrived the right way . She didn't like you , I think .
I think that she loved me . I think that she was very busy trying to to help my dad , I think . Well , now our dad favored her and so I think that maybe that might have made my mom like kind of push her a Little to the side , maybe not meaning to you know , because I , we love our mom . I just think you know .
But we're being honest to you , don't you know ? I'm saying we're being honest . We want people to know that that in your family , the dynamics , if the God is in your foundation , it's unhealthy . Yeah , you're gonna have an unhealthy family . You just are . Faith and Thalias podcast .