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Hello Dear Friends!
I met Jesus at the age of seven when my dear mother introduced me to her best friend, Jesus. As a young
girl, my parents lived and worked at Christian camp in Minnesota in the middle of the Jesus People movement. I grew up seeing incredible, supernatural outpourings and miracles.
When I was about eight
years old, my mother was planning to attend a women's retreat at the camp, at the last minute she decided to keep me home from school and take me with her. We arrived late to the meeting and had to sit in the back
of the church that seated about 500 people.
I was excited to get out of school and spend the day with my mom, but honestly, I didn't pay much attention to anything the speaker was saying. I knelt on the
ground in front of my chair and colored. Suddenly, my mom grabbed my arm and started urging me to stand up. As the speaker was speaking, the Holy Spirit had stopped her and she seemed confused as she said, "God
has told me there is a child here who is called of God. Is there a child here?" she asked the congregation. That's when my mom grabbed me.
I was the only child there, but she couldn't see me because I
was on the floor with my colors. I didn't really understand what was going on, but my mother walked down with me to the stage at the front of the church. The woman gave a lengthy prophecy over my life and said,
"You will go to the north, south, east and west..." As she prayed for me, I was slain in the Spirit.
At the time, the only thought I had in my head was, "No, God, I want to be normal," but
that thought didn't last long. At 13, I started ministering using music as a platform to tell others about Jesus and sang as often as anyone wanted to hear. After high school, I received a music scholarship to
attended Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, ND where I met my husband, Steve Boyson.
Shortly after our marriage in 1988, we started ministering together at various churches and functions, again using the
platform of music. We started our family in 1990 with the arrival of our little Cassandra, and her brother, Cody, soon followed in 1992. Cole and CailieEllen came along later in 1997 and 2000.
In 1992, we
became youth pastors, and through the following years ministered in various churches. In 1999, the Lord told us to leave the church we were pastoring and move to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to work for Francis Frangipane.
Francis and Denise have been like spiritual parents to us and grandparents to our children. They both were and are extremely influential in our
development as Christians and as ministers. Francis recognized the gift I had in writing and encouraged my pursuing its development.
Through the years, I've sought hard after the heart of my Heavenly
Father. I desperately needed Him in my life after I lost my mother when I was sixteen when she and my younger brother were killed in a car accident. My heavenly Father literally filled the void of the family I had
lost and He's become everything to me. I would be lost without Him with no meaning to my life.
If you are lonely, desperate or longing for something you don't really understand, call out to Jesus. Reach out
for your Heavenly Father. He promises He will answer those who call on His name (see Jeremiah 33:3). He will never leave you or let you go (see Hebrews 13:5). He will protect you under the shadow of His wings (see
Psalm 17:8). He will transform your life and you will never be the same again.
He is the pearl of great price - worth giving up the whole world to possess. And He is longing to have a deep and intimate
relationship with you. If you do not know Him, ask Him to come into your life today, right now and save you. Give Him your life and, in return, He will give you His. God loves you passionately - never forget that!
I strongly believe that God has a plan for your life and I want to see that plan transpire in you. I love you and appreciate your prayers for this ministry.
Love and Blessings,
Victoria
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Victoria has written, The Birth of Your Destiny,
in which she gives an overview of the many stages of our destiny in God, the challenges and pitfalls. We believe that our calling is to become one with Christ, to encourage and raise up those who would be
co-laborers in the harvest, and to breathe life into the destiny of others.
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