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A Resurrected Life
By Jeremy | April 9, 2007
The good folks at International Bible Society who are updating the My City My God Bible read this article about Generation Xcel co-founder Lou-Box Velez and asked him to send his testimony for inclusion in the Bible. Here's what he wrote.
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Hiding in my bed under the covers with only my eyes exposed, I saw him pass by my room with a kitchen knife in his hand and heard his violent death threats. Yet another alcohol-induced rage had come to torment our home.
“STOP IT DADDY,†I kept repeating to myself silently under my breath. I could hear mom in the next room crying for help as my heartbeat pounded faster by the minute. In an act of desperation, I got dressed and ran to the living room; there I saw him punch my mom in the face. I charged him wildly, swinging my hands, striking him several times.
I’ll never forget the disappointment in father’s eyes as he looked at me before running out of the apartment. A week later we received a phone call that he was dead. He had committed suicide, hanging himself in a friend’s basement. I was twelve years old.
The heartache at home and the torment that I had experienced everyday made the streets very attractive. In my community, the Lower East Side of Manhattan, poverty, prostitution, gang violence, and drugs linger around waiting to entangle emotionally unstable youth like I was. I got involved in a crew named S.B.M., an acronym for “Sex, Booze, & Money,†and lived the typical street life until the age of 17.
Then I met Jesus Christ. I invited him into my heart and both my life and how I viewed life changed. Now I’m 29, I’m a husband and a father and I love to share with my family, friends, and others how God has changed my life.
I received an opportunity in 1996 to join a team of teens in a project to design and create a youth center called “Generation Xcel.†Our goal was to provide kids with real hope by offering alternatives to the streets.
The kids who attended Xcel reminded me of myself when I was younger; they walked around with hidden hurts that influenced their decision-making.
Like the two sisters whose mom and dad died of AIDS; the boy who didn’t understand why his dad committed suicide; the 16 year old girl who couldn’t be spared from the persuasive talk of a 27 year old who didn’t have her best interest in mind; the little girl who was uncomfortable when daddy touched her in certain areas of her body; and the boy who couldn’t understand why his big sister died in his arms of a heart attackâ€â€these were a few kids from Xcel that have seen grow into God loving teens and have developed lasting friendships with.
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