This message is Truth- praise GOD! These Leaders are not like any others I've ever known, they turn me from EVERY sin. They have laid down all sin and they have GOD's spirit, HIS wisdom and love to show others how to live a life that is only pleasing to GOD. Before I heard this message that Gwen Shamblin brought, I did not know how to have answered prayers- she taught me to go back and find out what GOD wanted through HIS word and then to do HIS will, and to PRAY for HIS WILL-not mine any longer. Because of this Truth through the Weigh Down Workshop I am no longer afraid of eating certain foods, but I am rather afraid of having any evil in my heart and I love to search for what GOD wants and make sure that is in my heart rather than searching food labels and worrying about what to put in my body and living by those godly principles has kept 30 extra pounds off of me for 5 years without dieting! I understand the scriptures much better know that I have been taught in this fellowship how to apply GOD's word- and I see more and more that GOD Almighty rules and HE has thought of everything!! I have let go of control and anger which is huge and I get butterflies waiting to see where GOD's HOLY spirit will lead me next. Every day I have more passion for seeking GOD's kingdom first. Loving GOD is everything, and I am getting true love returned to me through answered prayers and by having the Truth shared with me.

I have been in this message since its conception in 1999, but I wasn’t a PART of this message until a few years ago when I really applied the message of "not my will but God's be done". When I was growing up, my family and I never went to church and if we did, it was on Easter and that was it. I hated church and felt like I could always see the hypocrisy in the church. It was made very clear to me when in 1994 I switched from the public school system to a private Church of Christ school. This was the most exposure I had ever had to religion and the counterfeit system. We were required to attend “chapel” every day and listen to a variety of speakers, which often times included the students or faculty. To the naked eye, these people seemed so nice and I thought they must be great Christians. However, when I really got to know these students at my private Christian school, they were full of gossip, slander, jealousy, eating problems, drug problems and sexual relations… in MIDDLE SCHOOL! I certainly was not blameless in my actions, but seeing that made me lose all hope! I always knew there was a God, and I knew that I was not going to make it to heaven because I did not know him! I was scared, but I didn’t know the answer!! During my freshman year of high school, in 1996, a new student joined our school. There was something very different about this girl and I wanted to know what it was. She claimed to be a Christian, and I could tell that she meant it by her life. Michelle Shamblin (now Elizabeth Hannah), was full of love and I never heard her talk bad about any other student. She was genuine in her every word and action. Through Michelle I learned how to fall in love with God and how to have a relationship with Him! She taught me how to look for Him in everything. I had never been so happy in my life!!

In 1999 the Shamblins and the Martins pulled out of the counterfeit system in order to start the Remnant Fellowship, and I followed right along! This was the summer before my senior year. It wasn’t until a few years later, after I quit running cross country, that I realized I had greed in my heart. I went from 114lbs up to 138lbs, on a 5ft2in girl, that’s a lot! Although I was in this message, I was not a part of it, for I hadn’t laid down my idols. I would lose weight, only to gain it again. I was humiliated, and though my idol was very obvious, I would never want to talk to anyone about it. I thought that if I didn’t talk about it, no one would notice. I was wrong, very wrong, and it only allowed me to stay in my sin longer. I hated the way I felt, and it started to affect other areas of my life. I was lonely, only because I was self-focused. I would listen to the lies of Satan instead of obeying God and getting out of SIN!! Praise God that He allowed me to be miserable, because it made me want out of the prison I was in. When I finally started obeying God, I realized how much BETTER it was than obeying the FOOD! I felt free and no longer self-focused! I wasn’t afraid to talk to other people because I KNEW that I was being obedient! When I finally started obeying, it was the fear of messing up that kept me from sinning. I went back to what I learned in the beginning, and that was how to fall in LOVE with God. I switched my focus OFF of the food and my weight, and I turned it onto God Almighty and finally got out of myself!!! It was the best feeling in the world!

Since losing 30lbs, God has blessed me tremendously! I was able to get accepted into Dental Hygiene school (I graduate in May), I was able to meet and marry my husband, I am no longer self-focused, and I am more in love with God than ever! Obeying His commands is AWESOME and I wouldn’t have it any other way! I am nothing and I know that my will only make me miserable! I now know that I am part of this message because I am changing everyday and the fruit in my life backs it up!

My life is completely, totally, and wonderfully CHANGED thanks to the Bible based teaching of Remnant Fellowship. I have been taught in the most loving manner I have ever experienced, how to live out what the Bible teaches. I have learned how to live out the Lord's prayer (Matthew 6:9). Our dear leaders have taught me how to put God's needs and wants first. Remnant Fellowship is the only church I have ever been to that the leaders truly DO what they say. There is no hypocrisy amongst the leaders, and they are always willing to help anyone in the Fellowship at ANY time! It is so beautiful! I have experienced a total life transformation as a result of learning how to live for God and by DOING it! Life is so FUN now!!! I have peace, joy, love, and HOPE!!! I know that there is really a GOD who loves me and cares for me. He truly does know what I need and is the best Father ever!!! I never knew that GOD spent so much time, love, care, and concern over every single person He created! How could I not return that love? May this world know that GOD is Lord, Jesus Christ is his devoted Son, and that Remnant Fellowship wants nothing more than for GOD to receive the glory that is due to Him alone!!!

It will be difficult to describe or list all that God has changed in me and our entire family since coming to this message in this limited venue. For me, the biggies were: PRIDE, ARROGANCE, SELF-FOCUS, PRAISE OF MAN, RESISTING AUTHORITY & GREED! I knew I was a mess, I knew the church was a mess. Neither the church nor I ever lined up with what the scriptures taught and what I was even teaching others. I wanted to believe that God would be true to his Word, but I was close to giving up the search for it. I thought He had removed His Spirit from this country because it had become so evil. I wanted to be like King David-a (wo)man after God's own heart; to be pure and holy, but I didn't know how. I would almost cry when my family wanted to visit another church. I truly had been looking all (most) of my life for this truth! My first draw to Remnant Fellowship was not for the weight loss-but PRAISE GOD for this also. My daughter, Kellie, was searching because of a previous stint I had with some weight loss a few years earlier. She came across the website for Remnant Fellowship. God allowed her to read both the legitimate comments as well as those from people who couldn't understand this truth. She called me at work, so excited, to tell me there was a church that seemed to line up with what we had been searching for. Long story short: within a short time, it was evident by the lives represented in this fellowship, that God truly had brought a people back to himself-to live pure and holy before him. I HAD FOUND IT!!!! I now LOVE authority-our house is now in order, I ADORE the praise of GOD rather than man, pride and arrogance has been done away and replaced by a sincere love of the brethren. And, 70 pounds of weight came off when greed was destroyed! PRAISE BE TO THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST! I truly am the "happiest girl in the whole USA" (a song God gave me). I love all of you and our wonderful leadership!

I was handed down a love for food and for peace with man over God almighty. I was incredibly needy to my husband and children, and the only "self" time was with my food. They were my idols. I would serve my family and wait for them to return this love. This love was never returned. The only break I would take from this "worship" of family, was when the kids were down for their naps I would "Serve myself" some food. I was lonely, needing and wanting a love that would love me back. I knew that eventually if the house was clean enough and the right dinner was made...my angry husband would finally be happy. If he was happy...THEN I could finally be happy. Every day he would return home to disappoint me again and again. I poured myself into my children and hung from every approval that they gave to me. They were spoiled and did not return this love. My food did not love me back either. It only made my husband and I even more distant.

In 2000 I came to this message and lost 70 lbs! I continued to serve my family...but with out expectations of return. God had become my love! He is my source of all now! The relationship with my family has returned seven fold! God is my everything!

He has brought me from a marriage on thin ice, to a marriage that made it thru an entire house remodel and the death of a child. The world would say this will split a family. Well I say, not when the family puts God first. After worshiping a child for years, I was able to freely give her back into the arms of my Father. NO ANTIDEPRESANTS REQUIRED! I Praise God for this relationship. It is his grace that he would show me how to turn from the love of this world and into obedience to him and his perfect, satisfying, an fulfilling love!

Hi, my name is Sally Neely and I live in middle Georgia. I was raised in a church going family where that didn’t really mean much except it was an activity we did nearly every week. It had no true impact on how we lived our lives. Even from my teen years, outwardly I appeared as a “good kid” but I was full of selfishness and envy—never satisfied with anything. Through the teachings of the Weigh Down Ministry and Remnant Fellowship I can say that I am no longer that kind of person. I have lost 105 pounds, and simply put, that is merely icing on the cake. I never realized how manipulative, discontent and empty my life had been; I just could not see it until I changed my focus from my self to that of our Great and Most Merciful God! In seeking to please Him, He has given me a new heart and a new life. Before I was a selfish, lazy parent. Now I gently teach my children how to obediently please God. Before I was fat and miserable. Now I am fit and active and feel great. Before I was a manipulative wife. Now I love to serve my husband and my family. Before I was lonely even when not alone. Now the love and peace that can only come from our Heavenly Father fills me with great joy. I really am happy! Before I had every kind of greed. Now I am content in all circumstances.

Before I bought into every false teaching out there – dieting, New Age, and attended at least 6 different church denominations. Now I only turn only to the Bible and seek guidance from those will keep my focus on God for direction on how to live my life.

Before I looked for all the wrong things to fill me up – food, alcohol, drugs, relationships, money, things… Now I only look to God. The Remnant Fellowship is a church that when you look around the congregation you see nothing but changed, joyful lives. We are constantly encouraged by each other. We are taught how to be loving servants of God and are given the tools to really live it out. We are surrounded by examples of people who do not just say the right thing but actually do it. It never occurred to me that a place might exist where there is no arguing, jealousy, manipulation and mind games, but I thank God every day that He led me to it. Leave the muck of the world behind. You can change. Turn, repent and find true love with God Almighty. He will not disappoint

I might look like the same person I was 20 years ago but the inside (and I think the outside) is completely transformed. I have lost 30 lbs along with a ton of dieting and food rules that I tried to force on my husband and children. I use to be totally anti authority…(but sweet). I had my own rules and laws and they did not match with the law or my employers. I believe the biggest change is that I have found something I was looking for all of my life. I remember always asking how to invest money. I would seek media and parent on how to raise happy children. ,I have searched friendships, business and worldly magazines looking for this. The answers was there in print or on the lips of someone, but it never reached into my heart. Thru this teaching I have peace in all areas of my life and I can teach my children how to find God which has taught me that that is the answer to all of my searching. still remember taking my 1st Weigh Down Workshop and being taught about a God that was loving and personnel, I fell in love immediately and wanted more. That was February of 1999. I continued to stay in any class offered. By 2003 I was trying to find the people (even leaders) in my church that had the same love for God that I had found through this teaching……….they weren’t there……sooooooo………I left.

My name is Cheryl Deneschuk and my life has totally changed since hearing the truth taught at Remnant Fellowship Church and learning how to practically apply Godly principles every day. Before attending Remnant Fellowship there was no church or school I attended that could ever give me the answer of how to turn from my sin of greed, self-focus, materialism, anti-authority and depression etc and turn to God for answers. I grew up ‘church hopping’ always seeking God, but feeling like I never could find Him. I had always wondered what “do the will of God” meant, but never found the answer. I chose to attend a private Christian University in hopes to find God, but did not find the answers in a classroom. I had been enslaved to dieting and exercising since I was 11years old. Counting calories, fat grams and exercising 2-3 hours a day was a profession that consumed my life. I grew up trying to find a ‘purpose’ for living. I had no peace, no true friends, no direction, and no happiness. I ended my freshman year in university totally miserable because I had gained ‘the freshman 20lbs’and was no closer to finding a relationship with God. My last attempt at weight loss was to join the varsity rugby team. I ended up tearing my ACL- I could hardly walk. A week later God answered my prayer and found the Weigh Down Workshop. For the first time the Bible made sense and I found the answer to permanent weight loss! The teaching at the Remnant Fellowship Church lines up with the Bible 100%. Leadership are true shepherds, that lovingly turning people from their sin and back towards God. Now I finally have the answer to how to ‘find and do the will of God’ and it has made all the difference!

I tried to fill my empty heart with everything in this world that feels good for only a minute, but the only thing that I was left with was guilt, loneliness, and a hollow heart. Growing up I was always so disobedient to my parents and doing only the opposite of what they wanted. Choosing to obey my flesh and lusts, I ended up pregnant outside of wedlock. I got married before my daughter was born but ended up divorced 2 years later.

Being a young single mother, I turned to sexual relationships, partying, traveling, over-drinking, over-shopping, and spoiling my daughters to mask the pain of being empty and hopeless. I wanted to be loved so bad, but none of this loved me back. Boyfriends only used me; partying left me feeling guilty in the morning; over-drinking left me with a splitting headache and regretting the things that I said and did; over-shopping left me with debt; and spoiling my children with things didn't make them love me because all they wanted was cuddles and to see me happy instead of crying.

I praise God that all of these things that the world glamorizes are so painful because the pain and emptiness made me cry out to God. I have given an all natural birth, and birthing pains pale in comparison to the pain in my heart during my life without God.

January 1, 2004, the day after a lot of New Year's Eve partying, I couldn't get off of the floor. I was crying so hard face down on the floor. I tried to pick myself up, but I physically couldn't. I had hit rock bottom. Nothing was wrong with me physically; it was the pain of my heart and hopelessness that I couldn't get up.

I called my sister Elisabeth from the floor begging for help. She told me about an orientation class for The Last Exodus that was going to be starting the very next day at Pat Sanchez's house in Denver, Colorado. I was so desperate that I actually obeyed and didn't do the opposite of what she said. God was so merciful and generous to let me find hope while face down on the floor.

I hung on to every word that Gwen Shamblin said in the videos and on Constant Encouragement. I wanted the joy, hope, peace, and love relationship with God that Gwen and everyone in Remnant had. I have been a member of Remnant Fellowship now for two years. I have never had more peace and purpose, learning that a great life comes from dying to my will and surrendering to God's perfect will.

I have had the opportunity to sit down with Gwen Shamblin a lot and ask her questions about how to treat people, my attitude, mothering, and falling in love with God alone. She always takes the time sit down with everyone and teach how to deeply, wholeheartedly love God first, then truly love others even when they don't love me back. It is fine when others that I shower with love don't like me or falsely accuse me because I get to prove to God that I will love Him through the good times and the hard times; and God's approval, favor, love, and answered prayers is all that I need.

I have been looking to be loved my whole life, and once I learned (through Remnant) to have no idols/loves besides Him, the love that God gives makes me so full that I can't help but to show so much love for others. I have learned to look inward and change myself and quit blaming everything around me. It is so freeing to take responsibility for my own actions.

Now I have two beautiful daughters that love serving, memorizing scripture, reading the Bible, love going to church, and they love God. I can't believe that they got to learn to have no idols/loves before God, and to go to God for every feeling at such a young age. I have also been taught to spend within God's boundaries as well. God has given me a job, and I am not to spend outside of my means. In obeying with this, I have been able to pay off so much debt. I am here to testify that God blesses obedience!