Testimony of Conversion

My name is Boris Giovanny Silva Sandoval. I began to know the Lord at the age of 16 years in the Charismatic Church.

I didn’t experience the real Word until the year 2017. I was a legal worker, and my partner at the time needed me to help her with a judicial case involving a children’s foundation directed by missionaries from the United States. When I arrived there, I met pastor Michael Riffle. During our conversations, I asked him if he followed Benny Hinn or Cash Luna. At this time I believed that all Christians followed the same speakers. He kindly said no and invited me and my wife to a church on the foundation’s property. My wife and I accepted and we began to attend. It was there I felt the blindfold of my charismatic background fall off, and I saw the true Gospel. I saw that I was living in many errors. We eventually invited our charismatic pastor over for dinner and began to ask him questions. He admitted to not teaching the truth of the Gospel because it made people uncomfortable. For this reason, my family and I left the charismatic church and began attending Nido de Gracia church.

However, the trip was difficult to make every week, so we began to look for a church closer to Cartagena. By God’s providence, we met pastor David Guzman on the road to Barranquilla. We became friends, and he started coming on Saturday afternoons to teach in our town of Cartagena. After a year, our little church started teaching on Sunday afternoons.

Call to Ministry

I began my master’s studies at Covenant Baptist Seminary in order to learn true evangelism.

Currently, we have 22 members and an attendance of 40 people per Sunday. We are teaching the scripture, visiting the families, and teaching the children reformed theology. It is a joy to serve the Lord. I am now quitting my job as a lawyer to commit myself entirely to the ministry. I pray about this decision’s consequences, such as supporting my family and my ties to former clients. Yet it is all in the Lord’s hands.

Thanks to the Lord, I now understand the truth, His Sovereignty, Decree, and Providence. It fills me with joy and happiness to know that I was called from before the foundation of the world and that everything is in My Lord’s control, that nothing escapes, and that He is immutable. Nothing surprises Him and He is Faithful to His Word. I have a great desire to continue growing in the knowledge of Christ, in holiness and a life of piety so that I may continue teaching the truth of the Gospel, so that the elect may listen to the voice of the Lord and follow Him.

In Christ,

Boris Sandoval