This document shares the testimony of a man whose marriage was restored through finding faith in God. The man and his wife had a rocky marriage due to past emotional trauma and lack of spirituality. Their family faced cancer, poverty, alcoholism and more. However, after his wife sought God and he returned home, they committed to rebuilding their marriage through their new faith with help from their church leaders. Both overcame health and addiction issues, and their marriage, children, careers and finances were restored through trusting in God. They praise God and their pastors for this victory.

1. Victory in Marriage
United Faith Church in Barnegat, New Jersey - Testimony

2. Victory Reigns!
Victory over cancer, poverty, alcoholism,
depression, and death.
 Our family overcame it all and now lives free with
a fully restored marriage! This is a real-life story of
my miraculous journey with the Lord Jesus Christ.

3. The Story
 My wife and I began our marriage following some really
terrible circumstances. We were both on an emotional
rebound and seeking comfort from anything and
everything. I was beginning to rebuild my life after I had
lost my first wife of ten years to cancer. My wife was
rebuilding her life after a severely abusive relationship of
seven years. She had a son from her prior relationship and
I had two sons from my first wife. Despite having several
rocky years together without any spiritual foundation or
relationship with God, we decided to marry; and had two
more children together. We had been attracted to each
other mostly for physical and superficial reasons. Both of
us were obsessed with material things and chased after
money. As a result, our family was constantly broke and
looking for happiness, satisfaction, and approval. Under
these conditions, our marriage soon began to crumble.

4. The Story, continued
 I decided that I needed to leave. I sent my two sons from
my previous marriage to Florida to live with their
grandparents, and I started work in Texas for about a
year. My wife was left at home, against her will, by herself
with our other children. In her desperation, loneliness, and
bitterness, she cried out to the Lord for something more.
She began to sincerely seek God with the help of Pastor
Jerry and Pastor Janeth Santiago, as well as the leaders of
United Faith Church. When I returned home from Texas,
we continued an abusive and unfaithful marriage. I was
not paying the mortgage and lost our house to a short
sale. Our minivan was repossessed and bills were piling up.
However, the Lord in His Mercy gave us a new place to
live. We then began attending United Faith Church in
Barnegat, New Jersey. We were seeking answers as to
why our lives had fallen apart. We began to see how
loving the Lord had been to us, even in our worst times.

5. The Story, continued
 Then suddenly, my wife was diagnosed with
cancer. I immediately feared losing a second
wife to this disease and fell off the deep end. I
turned to alcohol to ease the pain and to forget
the reality of my life. I left my home, my wife, and
my children for a second time and started living
in unheated and unfinished homes I was working
to renovate. I was drinking my life away while my
wife was getting ready for cancer surgery. I
could not bring myself to go home, see my kids,
be there fully for my wife during her surgery, or be
in church.

6. God’s Great Plans
 Needless to say, I needed a great deal of help. Through
many phone conversations with Pastor Janeth Santiago,
she began to council me and was committed to the Lord
for the salvation of my soul. After much struggle and
prayer, The Lord came down upon me on New Year’s Eve
two years ago as I was speaking with Pastor Janeth on the
phone. My eyes were truly opened in that moment to see
all that I had lost in trying to live life my own way. I
understood the truth that I had truly betrayed all those
who loved me and meant the most to me. Pastor Jerry
and Pastor Janeth Santiago were a tremendous help to
me. Through their love for me and the Lord Jesus Christ,
they were unwavering in helping me to see myself
through the mirror of the Word of God. I could see the
truth of who I really was, and who I was not.

7. God’s Great Plans, continued
 Pastor Jerry served as the strong Godly pillar of the Lord
who I looked up to and wanted to be like. He, too,
continued to show me how to compare myself to the
Word of God in order to see my true state. With their help,
I defeated the pride and selfishness that was woven within
me from my past. It was only then that the Lord came into
my life and turned my heart towards Him and gave me
the victory! Immediately following my wife’s surgery,
Pastor Jerry and Pastor Janeth Santiago, along with
members of United Faith Church, helped to take care of
my wife for three months in the slow recovery process. It
was then that my wife and I started to truly believe in this
all-loving and patient God. God began healing my wife,
my marriage, and my entire family. I stopped drinking
instantly and completely through the power of the Lord.

8. God’s Great Plans, continued
 I was able to move back home and my wife and
I began to rebuild our marriage and the
relationship with our kids, not my way but the
Lord’s way. The Lord has restored our children
from the pain they endured during the time in
which my marriage was broken and I was in
alcoholism. My wife fully recovered from her
surgery and to this day is cured of her cancer.
The Lord also continues to heal her from the
abusive childhood she endured. Our eyes have
been opened to see the glorious ways of the
Lord and His power to move in our lives.

9.  Together under Him we are free, a new creation in Christ.
The Lord even allowed our son whom I had sent to live in
Florida with his grandparents to come back home to live
with us. The Lord continues to watch over our oldest son
still living in Florida. He is now beginning college as an “A”
student with the ambition of attending medical school.
My entire career has completely turned around, and we
have been saved from the depths of poverty, with money
in the bank. In every aspect of our lives, the Lord has
given us more than we have ever had before. Our
marriage is nothing like it used to be, healed beyond our
wildest imagination… and all this is just the beginning!
God has opened our eyes to see things we would never
have seen if we had stayed on our former paths. The Lord
has opened doors for us and closed the doors on those
who were against us. How faithful, loyal, and loving He
has been to my wife, my family, and to me. I thank God
for the victory that only He can give.
God’s Great Plans, continued

10. Praise God for His Victory!
 Praise God for Pastors that did not give up on this
family and who truly hear and believe all the
plans that the Lord has for us! Our love for our
pastors is truly beyond measure. This true life story
shows how the power of the Lord can take what
the enemy meant for bad and use it for His good
and for His glory. Thank JESUS for His true
resurrection power and might! Thank the Father
GOD in Heaven!! AMEN!!!
 To read more about the victory found in the Lord
Jesus Christ, please visit unitedfaithchurch.org in
Barnegat New Jersey.