Founder’s History

Praise the lord my friends, this is Prophet David Martin fromThomaston,Georgia. We are preparing this web site and I want to give you a little bit of history about our organization and our churches that we are setting up and have set up. We have been in the ministry since 1981, traveling, preaching tent revivals, preaching revivals in churches and such. We live according to the word of God, and we try to live Holy and walk in the spiritual realm of Jesus Christ. So firstly, I just want to give you a little bit of my background of how that God has given to me and spoken to me to do.

In the latter part of 1979 I was bitten by a coral snake. We lived in a little town called Satsuma,Floridaand we walked according unto the lord. We had 5 children, 3 boys and 2 girls, and we enjoyed what God had given to us. Satsuma,Floridawas a little small spot on highway 17 going south. But I was a pastor of a church right across the railroad tracks from where we lived and we just served God; me and my wife and 5 children that we had. We lived according to what God blessed us with. I also had a business, a diesel mechanic shop. I was a diesel mechanic for parts of my life, hallelujah, in order to be able to fulfill into the ministry. During this time, I was outside doing some work and I reached down and picked up some wood I was going to move and I felt something bite me. I didn’t pay that much attention to it and picked up the wood and kept walking down moving the wood. When I got the wood down there and put down the coral snake, they are pretty red, black and yellow and just as pretty as they could be looked like something to play with, but I knew better. I knew that it wasn’t something to play with after he had bit me on my hand. They have to chew on your skin in order to be able to get the poison in your skin. They have the same poison as a cobra, so the coral snake had been on my finger about 30-45 seconds or maybe a little bit longer. I was like Paul, I shook him off and I told the devil, “Satan I curse the poison and I send it back to the pits of hell in the name of Jesus”. Well about 5 or 10 minutes passed and it didn’t affect me.

I began to think about that thing, and as I began to think about it, it hit me that I may need to go to the doctor and let them check me out. So I went into the house and told my wife what happened. I didn’t tell her the correct time it happened. I was looking for a wire that you would wrap around the bread with back in them days. As I was looking, my wife ask me, “…what are you looking for?” and I told her a wire. She said “why do you want a wire wrapper for?” I told her I wanted to wrap it around my finger to stop the blood. She said “you’ve been bitten by one of them coral snakes…” I said yes, I was picking up some wood and the coral snake was under it and he bit me. She immediately went into a panic because she knew how deadly and how poisonous it was. It takes a while for the poison to get into your system and all. She immediately called our family doctor and he told her to get me to the emergency room in Palatka, Florida, which was about 8 or 10 miles from Satsuma, Florida. So I went out and got in the car. All my kids piled in the back seat of the car and my wife asked “do you want me to drive?” I said no, I’ll drive. I got in my old Chrysler and before we left, my son Carl went outside where the wood that I had put down where the snake had went underneath and put him in a jar.