Here I am!

Hello everyone, after some technical difficulties and an overly ambitious SPAM filter, I am finally here and posting. My name is Kris Munger and I met and came to know Linda and Mary-Margaret over the passed couple of years at Christ Memorial Church and now Redeeming Grace Church. These two women have been to me examples of Godly wives, mothers and servants. They are my friends and my sisters and I am ever thankful for them. Julia I believe I met you and your family once very briefly at the Thiel's house. If you don't remember I would have been the freakishly tall one.

Okay, about me, I was born in New Hampshire and bounced around the northeast until I was 11 when my parents landed & stayed in western New York. I went to a small college in Worcester, Ma. and arrived in Vermont in October of 2002. So enough geography, here is a bit of my testimony.

I grew up with barely any religious education or church attendance at all. I had a wonderful family and home life, but it was completely devoid of God. By my college years I had developed the opinion that most probably God did not exist and if by chance I was wrong and He did, I was a pretty good kid, so I'd get to go to heaven. I claimed "science" made much more sense to me and through my pride I held fast to my convictions. I never claimed to be sinless, but was quite sure I was better then most so I was all set. After graduation and a couple of years of "real life" I was frustrated and unsure of what to do with myself. Through the years and trials, my then boyfriend Kevin was always my safe ground. He was there and always would be, or so I thought. Meanwhile, through a long process that I had partially witnessed and wholly misunderstood, Kevin surrendered his life to our Lord Jesus Christ, began attending Christ Memorial Church and started sitting under and submitting to good biblical teaching and council. One evening in May of 2003 he showed up on my doorstep with tears in his eyes. We had been dating for 8 1/2 years and were soon to be engaged. That night he shared with me about sin and his Savior and told me that we could not marry. I rejected him and God with anger and hurt. He stood firm in obedience to God. Oh now, how thankful I am for his faith.

That night and the next day brought a heavy heart. In the afternoon I left work in tears returning home to find one of my 3 roommates who just "happened" to be a believer. I spilled my heart to her and again I was presented with the gospel. Though I responded with question and sarcasm at first, God was at work on my heart. That night by His Grace I knelt before the cross in repentance and faith. A couple of months later Kevin gave me the engagement ring he had canceled back in May when I had so adamantly rejected Christ. On July 4, 2004 I married my high school sweetheart. From then on through God's grace and the teaching and family at CMC and now RGC I am changed and am being changed. I can't wait to read and discuss this book with you girls, I'm excited to learn more and more about the cross that my King endured for me even while I despised and rejected Him.