Well, good evening everyone. My name is Ram Sinaray. As you can tell, I don't look Australian,
but I've been living there for 20 years of my life. So I was born in Iraq. I was born into an
Assyrian East Orthodox family. So basically at the age of around eight, between seven and eight,
my family left Iraq. They left Iraq to fight for a better life, to basically for us, for their
children. Because living there, basically there's no future for at that time where there was no
future for their kids. So they decided to leave Iraq. We went through Turkey. We were in Turkey
for two years. And once we go to Turkey, I guess I stayed there for two years, went to school,
learned the language, and it was either going to be America or Australia. So it depended
whichever country was going to accept us in. So we ended up coming to Australia. And Australia
is the country where pretty much I grew up, because my childhood was. And Australia is
a country where I got saved. So I got saved in March 2012. My friend started attending an old
IV church. And he basically started going there through another friend who invited him.
And he started going there. And when he went there, the preaching was about Babylon,
by King Nebuchadnezzar and so forth. And him being Chaldean, that sort of lifted him up. Well,
these guys, it's in church. They're preaching about Babylon and I'm Chaldean. How are they
talking about this? And so that's when they, obviously, they open in the Bible, preaching
from the Bible that interested him. And then he started coming to me and say, hey, bro,
do you see the Bible talks about Babylon, talks about Chaldean and talks about Assyria.
And through a couple of weeks of him trying to convince me, I finally went.
And so when I went to church and in the Bible, as the Bible says, faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God. And so I wasn't used to that really. I was used to going to church
every Sunday. So basically, if you've ever been to an Orthodox Church, it's, you go every week,
it's the same prayer, same songs. You get up, you sit down, you do the crosses and then you go take
the sacraments. So that's basically Assyrian East Orthodox Church. Everything's the same every week,
nothing changes. So when I went to this church, they would say, well, turn to Book of Daniel,
chapter three, verse two. This is all new to me. It was like, wow, this is actually in the Bible.
So I started going for about a couple of weeks, three, about three weeks in,
is I'd say when I got saved. They're preaching the Gospel. So I got saved at home after hearing
the Gospel. And when I was in bed thinking, you know what, I don't want to, I don't want to go
to hell forever. So it was at night in March is when I called upon the name of the Lord.
So basically after I got saved, you know, I had a desire for the Lord. I got a disciple.
They were teaching me, training me, but really none, none of that helped me in going out soul
winning. So I was used to going out heading out tracks, you know, once a month, go out,
do letterboxing once a month. So that's when I stumbled across the video of Pastor Anderson's
basic soul winning video. So that helped me sort of kickstart going out soul winning,
going out door knocking. So that was the basic thing, helped me going out. And it was just by
myself. There was nobody else. I had to get a couple of my friends going out door knocking.
So based on the videos that started me going and then one door knocking has learned the
ropes slowly by experience. So as the more preaching I listen, the more it helped me grow
in the Word of God through the preaching. Pretty much most of it was here from Faithful Word.
So now as a Christian, what I want to do, this is my prayer unto the Lord, you know, in Australia.
I never want to quit. I always want to go soul winning all the days of my life
and to run the race that is set before me with patience, looking out to Jesus my Lord and my God.
So if I can, you know, encourage you to keep going, never quit. I never want to quit. And
please pray for Australia. This is my goal to be in Australia and do the work of the Lord.
And I'm looking forward to the rest of the week. Thank you and God bless.