The Classic Christian Tapes Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
The testimony of Skip Heitzig. Skip Heitzig is a native of Southern California and experienced the volatile days of the counter-culture in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s. Though raised in a religious home, Skip saw religion as a dead-end street with no answers. As a young musician, he got caught up in drugs and was arrested for two felonies. By 18, he had ventured into the spirit world of astral projection and automatic writing, again finding no answers. By 1973, the Jesus Movement was in full swing, with many young people committing their lives to Jesus Christ. This also happened to be the same year Skip left his family’s home and moved to the San Francisco Bay area to enroll in college and escape his Christian friends who were trying to “convert” him. But God had a different plan for Skip’s life. One day, alone in his brother’s apartment in San Jose, Skip was watching TV and became mesmerized by Billy Graham. The gospel message penetrated Skip’s soul, and he knelt down and prayed to receive Christ. Skip returned to Southern California and studied under Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa until 1981. After he married Lenya, the couple moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he worked in the medical field of radiology. In 1982, Skip began a home Bible study which eventually grew into Calvary of Albuquerque. In 2008 Calvary of Albuquerque was considered the 20th largest church in America according to Outreach magazine. Today, Calvary of Albuquerque ministers to over 13,500 adults and their children every weekend and has spun off over 40 churches internationally.
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