Shalom!

I came from a Pentecostal background, and have been blessed to have had the Ruach be my guide in learning, and teaching the truth of our Heavenly Father and His dear kingdom. I have not attended a large Bible college, and do not claim any rabbinical training. I can only attest to and teach what I have learned, and believe to be true according to the scripture. I, like you have come through many obstacles in my life, some too horrendous to mention here, and waste your time with. I would like to tell you that at the age of eighteen I was at the cove by the ocean in Seaside, Oregon shortly after viewing the movie "Jesus Christ Superstar" and was moved by the content of that movie and at that age wanted to know if G-d existed or not. I made a prayer to G-d and asked Him that if He indeed was real to give me a sign of gold. To my surprise I looked in the water three seconds later, and among the rocks I saw something glimmering , so I bent down to see what it was. I halfway expected to see a Miller Highlife beer can, or some debris of that sort, however what I pulled out of the water was a medallion, the one you see in the upper right hand side of some of the pages on our website. This was the beginning of my journey to find my true Hebraic roots of Yahaveh, and His dear son Yeshua. On the front the medallion said the Greek interpretation of the Hebrew name of Yeshua, however on the back it says "Tara Sancta Jewelers Jerusalem 1956". I came to understand what this all meant, but not at that stage of my life. I hung onto that medallion, and proceeded with my life. The medallion is currently on it's way home after having been with some friends of ours in Rawanda, Africa. I have had friends take it to Jerusalem where it was blessed by a Rabbi, It went with a friend of mine to China and used as a mission story of miracles there also.

After getting married at the age of 19, my first wife and I moved to Prineville, Oregon where I was to experience different beliefs and understandings in the Christian faith, and to become involved with the Jesus movement of the 70's. I was dared to attend a Full Gospel church where a evangelist was teaching, his name was Don Krider, as he prayed for me he was not sure what to pray but I feel the Ruach knew, because as i stubbornly went up front to get prayed for I believed this falling in the spirit stuff was all a hoax. little did I know what was about to happen to me, I was slayed in the spirit, the following is an account of the vision I had while under the influence of the Ruach. I came to in two huge arms, my body draped over them as a small lamb would be draped over the arms of a Shepard, I lifted my head to see that the ends of these arms which had sleeves which went all the way down to where hands should have been. Where the hands should have been were light emanating from the sleeves, like immense sparklers of different colors but mainly white. I looked down to the earth and could see my then wife and my children who were not there at the time sitting in the pews, for all thoughts and intent, I felt I had died. I made the comment to the faceless person who was gigantic, that "I don't want to go back." I felt Him say "You have to, I have a work for you to do." as He placed me back into my body. It was then I awoke, I was face down in a pool of tears I had cried while I was "OUT" With the feeling I felt in this vision which goes beyond the feeling of peaceful that we know I could only utter two words, "I believe" over and over again in tears. Well something happened that day, and my life has never been the same, I began to research the scriptures, and began to dig for the ultimate truth, wanting not to settle for men's understanding of the scripture, but to find the ultimate understanding of the universe, and of this G-d I had found. I became inducted into a program through a dear friend of mine Gene Routen, who took me under his wing and helped me to be ordained through the Assemblies of God organization, I eventually became co-pastor of Melrose Full Gospel Jesus Name Church in Prineville for six years.

It was then I fell from grace and went through my black years, which I ended up leaving the ministry, and getting a divorce, and not seeing my family and friends for ten years. I struggled with pot, cocaine, alcohol, and various other non inject able drugs. I was involved with over 31 women in this time and should have contracted some STD of some sort. Little did I know that my Father in heaven's grace was bigger than I was. I worked at a label company in Clackamas, Oregon and met a wonderful woman who saw in me what no one else did, she saw the Spirit of Yahaveh in me, and we eventually fell in love. We became married and I became a Presbycostal as we attended a Presbyterian church. We began to lead the Youth Group there, and took them to a ten day stay in Mexico where we built a home extension for a poor family there in El Florido. Our need to be fed Ruach rich food, and be involved in the move of the Spirit found us involved later with the Vineyard church, where we led the Youth Group there for awhile also.

However we found ourselves needing something more, and left that congregation to begin a vision Yahaveh had given Pam, C.D.R.O.M. International was coming into being. Pam was looking through our local paper and read of a gathering of Messianic people meeting at a grange hall near us, so we decided to go hear what this "Rabbi" had to say, the name of the gathering was Beth El Congregation (Which consisted of AriCrockett, Sarah Crockett, andher two children and Ari's oldest son David.). When I sat in those pews I felt that same voice say to me, "This is the end of your journey" I became close to the "Rabbi" and we produced his first six television shows at Mount Hood Community College, "The Torah and the Testimony" as we learned of our Hebraic roots to our Christianity. Unfortunately this person turned out to be a con-artist posing as a rabbi to make money from unsuspecting people, to this day he is in California chased out of Oregon by people who are trying to get him brought up on charges of fraud, and theft.

This was a hard time for me because I had to find forgiveness in my heart for this man, and I had to continue on in the faith that Yahaveh had led me too. We moved our worship to our home, and began to have Hebraic worship at our home, and it blossomed out into the ministry it is to this day, to help others trying to find their Hebraic roots to their Christianity. We have been meeting on Saturday evenings, however have moved our meetings now to Friday evenings at our home here in Gresham, Oregon. Our meetings are open to all who chose to come and worship Yahaveh. We are currently looking in to using a facility once a month to invite all the Hebraic brothers and sisters from 7-11 pm on Shabbat evenings.

Now I haven't included in this testimony the real bad things I have done in my life, those are between Yahaveh and myself, believe me when I say with an honest heart, you don't want to know. I haven't included the hardships of my life, like being raised on welfare, and my drug habits and infidelity to my first wife. I haven't included my being at deaths door on three separate occaisions, one when I was thirteen and had a 38 police special pointed in my face after witnessing my stepfather being shot three times, once while he was in my hands.I didn't mention about being sexually abused, or about my siblings being sexually abused for six years plus, I didn't mention of my being taught how to shoplift when I was young by my own parents. I have personally come through a lot of things, and the on thing I can be sure of, I went through those things so I could better understand you, and serve you better.

I don't believe as others do, that the sheep that Yahaveh brings to you belong to you. I believe you have a responsibility to bring them good food, but their wanting to eat the food you bring to them is totally up to them. If you fail at keeping your sheep and they go to greener pastures, with more vitamins and nutrients wish them well and feed the ones you have. We have so little time left to gather in the harvest, the old way of doing things is gone forever, we must strive for the unity of the gospel of peace. I seek a more perfect way of serving Yahaveh than giving way to my feelings as a way to guide my life. I seek to fellowship with those who have an honest desire to find a deeper relationship with Yahaveh,and discover just how far the rabbit hole goes, to quote the movie the Matrix. We have just begun this journey in discovering our Hebraic roots, come with us as we discover together the deeper meanings to all this, as we challenge you to discover your destiny in this the final hour of the prophecies of Yahaveh.

May our Father bless you and yours thanks for taking the time to read this shalom Bill Please keep us in your prayers.

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