From the streets to the nations

Jesus found me

I wasn’t looking for God when He found me. I was 17, homeless and hopeless, standing on the street moments away from ending my own life, when Jesus stepped in and radically saved me. His love broke through my hopelessness, and from that moment I knew my life would never be the same.

Then He healed me

Two years later I was in a serious motorcycle accident that shattered my leg in 25 places. The doctor said there was no hope of me ever bending my leg again, and that my paralyzed leg would likely never wake up. I refused to let his words be my reality. I went to another doctor, the Great Physician.

“God told me to pray like Jesus prayed. Thirty days later my doctor measured my knee and called it impossible.”

Anna

Before we were married, Anna was a full-time missionary in Southeast Asia, living in Thailand and ministering to Muslim street kids. We met in Georgia at a pastors’ conference, connected through missions and the same fire to see the Gospel reach every tribe, tongue and nation. In 2019 we got married and our callings became one.

What we do now

Today Anna and I live in Davao City, Philippines, with our daughters. We serve as Assemblies of God missionaries with Gilpins2Asia, and we’re planting Rise Church Davao. With Fuel Revival, I train believers around the world to heal the sick, cast out demons and share Jesus boldly. And every day, our videos carry testimonies and teaching to people online.

My story isn’t about what I’ve done. It’s about what Jesus has done and what He can do through anyone who says yes. If He can take a hopeless, broken young man from the streets and turn him into a messenger to the nations, imagine what He wants to do through you.