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Personal Testimony of Gene
Snow
I was saved at the
age of nine in Lubbock, Texas. I was very excited about
my salvation and began reading my Bible faithfully.
Looking back I believe the Lord issued the call to
ministry even at that early age. I dreamed I was
following after the example of Billy Graham as I slipped
off to the caliche pit behind my house in Lubbock, standing on the edge of the big pit singing hymns and
preaching to the rocks and salamanders. Soon after that, I picked up my Bible,
climbed
out of my bedroom window, and headed out to preach the
gospel to the world. A few hours later, as darkness
came, and I began to get hungry, I knocked on the door
of a cotton farmer just outside of Lubbock….he was kind
and politely called my dad. I was home just in time for
supper.
I've never forgotten that
event. Although, as I grew older and cares of the world
tempted this young man, I did forget the joy of my
salvation but the Lord never left me. Realizing
the Lord stayed with me through all circumstances in
life, I am ashamed of the
things I’ve done and the sinful situations I’ve been in.
Time went by and I met a young lady, my boss’s
daughter, who changed my life. In order to be able to
spend time with her I started attending church and
walking the straight line. I fell in love with that
girl, found once again the joy of my salvation and dared
to dream of following the calling to the ministry with
my new found passion of music. I’m pretty hard-headed
and many times find myself “blazing the trail” the Lord
places before me. More than once I have misunderstood
(or refused to listen) to the direction and timing of
the Lord’s instructions. In my quest to follow the
passion for music and the Lord’s calling (erroneously in
that ordered), the path has taken me to children’s choir
leader, church music director of several churches,
recording of my first country music album in Shreveport,
LA, to the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville, TN, into
the radio business as a gospel program disc jockey and
radio sales rep. I have also released several songs to
Christian Country and Bluegrass radio and charted with
several of those songs.
Throughout
this quest in life I have always placed music and my
desire for recognition first. My second desire was to
generate enough income for a comfortable living for my
family. And, oh yes, of course, my calling for ministry
from the Lord. Today, as Anchorpoint Ministries, our
priorities have changed. God, family and the high
calling of Jesus Christ in my life have become the
priority.
 I believe the high calling for Anchorpoint
Ministries involves sharing the Father’s love through
music with Matthew 25: 34-40 as the guiding light and
anchor to everything we do.
TO GOD BE
THE GLORY as we lift up THE NAME OF JESUS.
God Bless
You as you find the high calling of Jesus Christ in your
life.
Birth
of Anchorpoint Ministries:
In 1993, shortly
after returning to Texas from Nashville, TN., my wife
presented me with a book, “Six Hours One Friday”,
written by Max Lucado in 1989. In this book he talks of
being caught by life’s storms. Six hours one Friday,
Jesus taught us with three anchor points
how to weather the storms of life no matter how or when
they strike. My life was in the midst of a storm after
financial, emotional and spiritual bankruptcy had taken
its toll earlier that year. From this time in my life
and the inspiration of the book by Max Lucado,
Anchorpoint Ministries was founded in 1993.
Our family survived
those rugged years, my wife stood by me faithfully and
we both continued to grow in the Lord and praise His
Name, knowing that without Him we would be nothing.
Over the next fifteen years the Lord took us through
“Boot Camp”, “Advanced Individual Training” and “On The
Job Training” in ministry to prepare us for the
commissioning of Anchorpoint Ministries by Him.
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