Rendezvous At Midnight by Carl Ballestero by The Faith Once Delivered

Rendezvous At Midnight by Carl Ballestero by The Faith Once Delivered

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n 1939, after visiting a church pastored by Charles Price, Carl received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. His old gang friends did not receive the news very well. After a period of time, Carl went back into the world, and became caught up in the web of a sin-filled life. He did some prize fighting while trying to survive. Carl spent two years in San Quenton Prison, and while there, his cell-mate was given a tract that he did not want. carl read the tract and received the revelation of baptism in Jesus' Name. While in prison, Carl received his call to preach. One day while standing in the court-yard of the prison, he preached his first sermon to the other prisoners. His subject was, "Though thy sins be like scarlet, they shall be white as snow". Carl went from prison to a civilian, conservation corp, an organization for the rebuilding of America. He then joined the military. Being able to type (90) words per minute on a manuel type-writer, Carl became the private secretary to the Colonel. He searched for two years for someone to baptize him in Jesus' Name. After being transferred to Oregon, he discovered a Jesus' Name church. There, he found Andrew Baker and was baptized in Jesus' Name.! Brother Baker was one of the early fathers of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. Content (Connie) Faith Gleason was a niece to Andrew Baker, and this is where Brother and Sister Ballestero first met. They were subsequently married in 1943. Brother Ballestero was discharged from the Army and went full-time into the Apostolic ministry. Brother Ballestero pastored for (25) years and evangelized for (25) years. Altogether, he pastored nine churches. His first pastorate was in Clinga, California, followed by tenures in, Aneheim, and Vista, California; Yakeymo, Washington; Columbus, and South Bend, Indiana; salt Lake City, Utah; and Sulphur, Louisiana. He was in South Bend from 1960 to 1972. Brothet Ballestero made visits to the Azusa Street Mission, and to the house on Bonnie Brae Street, where the Holy Ghost was first received in Los Angeles. There he spoke to some of the people who knew first hand of the events that had made history in 1906. In his early twenty's, he would visit Sister Amy Simple McPherson's, Angelus Temple, in Los Angeles, and listen to her preach. Brother Ballestero will alway's be remembered in the anuals of Apostolic history as one of the spiritual Giants of the 20th Century. One of his most famous sermons was preached in San Antonio, Texas in 1964, during the UPC General Conference. The title of his sermon was, "The Handwriting on the Wall".

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