A Glimpse of God's Magnificent Plans For His Children

<p>WILLIAM DENNIS HOLMES was born on September 27 1963 to Floyd and</p><p>Lizzie Mae Holmes in Greensville County Virginia. He attended Greensville County</p><p>Public Schools and graduated in June 1982. He grew up in a Christian home with</p><p>a praying mother and father. They went to a powerful sanctified Holy Ghost-</p><p>filled church called Rising Sun Holiness Church of Emporia Virginia under the</p><p>leadership of Eldress Lillie P. Williams. It was there along with other churches</p><p>under Pastor Mother Williams that William Holmes witness the supernatural</p><p>power of God working among the saints of God. William would see how devoted</p><p>his mother was to serve God and how she put in him to love the Lord and serve</p><p>him with a perfect heart. She would pray faithfully calling on God from her bedside. She would talk to</p><p>him about Jesus. His father would provide for them and love them. He would read the Bible to them at</p><p>night. His father would also pray.</p><p>When he went to church he saw the saints of God act the same as his mother and father. He</p><p>concluded that this was real because they held up holiness more important than education or anything</p><p>else in this world. They were happy people to be free from the world of sin. They gave up the world and</p><p>dressed and look like the saints of God. They kept their testimony year after year. William knew these</p><p>people were real.</p><p>When William was six years old he was stricken with a serious illness and placed in the Medical</p><p>College of Virginia Hospital Richmond Virginia. His father called Mother Williams who prayed for</p><p>him and God wonderfully brought him out. Even the doctors who attended his case said It was the</p><p>hand of God that brought him out. William devoted his heart to the Lord and got saved sanctified and</p><p>baptized by the Holy Ghost filled and fire at the ages of thirteen to fourteen years old. He was nourished</p><p>in the Word of God under his pastor Bishop William H. Easter who succeeded Mother Williams as</p><p>pastor of Rising Sun Holiness Church of Emporia Virginia along with Bishop Rufus A. Easter pastor</p><p>of New Jerusalem Holiness Church of Garysburg North Carolina. God wonderfully worked in his life</p><p>and took him through many trials and tests. He remained steadfast in his faith and rejoiced in the Lord.</p><p>He did not cause the church to be ashamed of his conduct. He lived a saved sanctified life no matter</p><p>how people treated him. He was called into the ministry and preached his trial sermon in October 1990</p><p>at New Jerusalem Church under the leadership of the Former Eldress Rosa Banks.</p>