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Cheryl: I Planned to Go Home and Smoke a Blunt

One of my grandsons wanted to go to church, and I knew I had to be the one to take him. So I went back to a big church where I had taken my boys when they were younger, about 30 years ago. I quickly learned that the church was full of judgment and was more concerned about head count than souls.

I was smoking weed daily and struggled to stop, not because I wanted to, but because of the cost. I was spending $150 or more a week on marijuana. Up until August 8th, I was smoking.

On August 9th, I went to Miracle Place Church for the first time. I thought it was going to be like all the other churches, and that I would go home afterward and smoke a blunt. Little did I know I would be changed that day.

I felt the Spirit in the building, and I knew it was a place where I could tell my stories about my past, or even my present issues, and not be judged. Instead, I would be loved right where I was. I gave my life to the Lord that day and surrendered it all like I never had before. I felt like my past was wiped clean, and I have not smoked since the 8th of August.

It was hard at first. I have people smoking on both sides of me, several of my neighbors smoke, and I could smell it all the time. The enemy would say, “Just take one hit and you’ll feel better.” But I knew God had me, and if I could just get past the next few weeks, it would be worth it. And it was.

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Pastor Ricky and Jeannie Sinclair

From Ricky’s book, Miracle-at-Large, Ricky became an evangelist spreading the word of God through his testimony. He was a fire. He would go in, light it up and encourage people in the places he shared his testimony. When you’re an evangelist, you breeze in and breeze out, and you don’t have to worry about hurting anyone. But that was the start of the ministry. His evangelism was birthed from the book that came out, which gave him a platform. People started following us and we gave them resources and suggested churches to get plugged into. However, we developed a following of people that would not go anywhere else but honestly, it was not in our heart to start a physical church.

With us not wanting to turn people away, we started meeting together as a prayer group and started having a little teaching within the prayer group. But then, we were bursting out of our living room. Our house could squeeze 30 to 60 people in it butt here was not much you can do in it anymore with people wall-to-wall. We had John Mayers and his wife leading worship through singing and playing a guitar. We had all the elements for church, which led to people pressing us to start a church and they wouldn’t go anywhere else. With us growing but not ready for a church, we had to look into bigger spaces and started with one conference room in a hotel. However, we eventually consumed every conference room in the hotel as we continued to grow.

As we grew, we saw a lot of gifts and opportunities. As a result, we wanted to start a physical church where everybody was included and invited. Even if they seemed like they didn’t fit into a“traditional church”, they would be accepted at our church. I sought God and God spoke to my heart and said, “I want you to start a church and I’m going to send everybody that is like you to the church. You will have a church and they’ll be other churches, too. There will be people that I send to those churches, but you will become your own individual church with the people that I’m creating and building for your church.” That’s how we became our own identity and individual church with our own personality that God established because God put this in Ricky’s heart. Everyone from various backgrounds would be welcomed as family and they would have a place for them to go to church in a family… MiraclePlace Church.

Here we are still standing today with the same message from 2001: Everyone from various backgrounds are welcomed as family and this is a place for you to actually go to church in a family… Miracle Place Church in Baker, LA. Come as you are, You Belong Here!