Welcome to my website and thanks for visiting. I’m Kenneth F. Pierpont.
HOW I CAME TO FAITH IN CHRIST

Christ reached me with salvation from sin in 1954 after I entered
active duty in the Navy. , I was sent to Glenview Naval Air Station in
July of that year. , There I met a young sailor who was just finishing
his four-year enlistment in the Navy.

One day during that summer I entered the barracks where we all
“bunked out” at night. , I noted on one of the single “racks” [Navy
term for bunk bed] where the higher rated petty officers had their
place, a Bible lying there. , I was instantly disgusted: “Who would be
so unthinking , as to have a holy book in such a godless place.

Little did I know that this sailor was a Christian, trying to live
for the Lord. , I had grown up in a church that did not really teach
the Bible and had merely a formal stiff worship. , I had gone to the
church, had taken training in the catechism, had sung in the choir,
but any personal relationship with God was a totally unknown concept
to me.

I met Ed Moore, the sailor with the Bible. , He was a great guy and
quietly began living Christ and teaching me about Him and the
Christian life.

After he left the Navy in October of that year, I had to go home for
emergency leave at the death of my grandmother who had lived with us
and had been my second mother for many years. , While home the Lord
brought across my path Billy Graham’s book Peace With God. , This was
the first piece of Christian literature I had ever seen that spoke of
Christ as a “personal Savior.”

I don’t know at what point I truly came to faith in Christ but I
distinctively remember standing at my rack, where I had a top bunk and
putting my head against the cold metal of the frame one afternoon and
“giving my life to God.” , When I finished that brief prayer I raised
my head and realized in that instant that God had called me to the
ministry.

That was more than fifty-four years ago. , Since that time God has
allowed me to know and walk with Christ. , He gave me a beautiful
Christian girl to wife in 1955. , In 1956 and following He gave us four
wonderful children, all of whom are Christians and in full time
Christian work.

I am retired from pastoral ministry but still preach and teach as the
opportunities come to me. , In September of this year we will finish
fifty years of preaching. , How very much I praise God for His work of
grace in my life. , As a result of my salvation nearly my whole family
has come to faith in Christ, including both my parents who are home in
Heaven.

My wife and I chose our life Bible verse together while we were
dating: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you
and your house” (Acts 16:31). , God has surely verified this promise in
our lives.

Kenneth F. Pierpont