"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." JOHN 8:32

Greetings, my friends, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! My name is Tom Lascoe. I am Minister of Pastoral Care at First Assembly of God in Rosenberg, Texas (near Houston), am married to a wonderful woman (Sherry), the father of 3 kids, & I have a deep desire in my heart to worship the Lord with all of my being.

People sometimes ask me, "Why do you like to sing that song,-'The Enemies Camp'("I went to the enemies camp & I took back what he stole from me") so often?" And I tell them that I sing it because for 33 years of my life, I was in the enemies (yes our enemy- Satan’s) camp. And as a (POW) prisoner of war, I wasted 33 years of my life until I was "set free" from bondage by Jesus Christ!

You see, I was a young man in search of "the truth", & I tried to find the meaning of life & the answers to my search for "the truth" in a lifestyle of alcohol & drug abuse. During the late mid-to-late 1960's, I played guitar in a Houston, Texas rock-n-roll band called, "THE SLAVES". (And that is what we were-slaves to sin)

I subsequently attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, & somehow managed to graduate from the University of Houston in May of 1972 with a B.A. degree in History. But it wasn't until I married my wife (Sherry)in 1973 that I really got introduced to who this Jesus Christ fellow was. Sherry and her family loved me in spite of all my short-comings, and were trying their best to point me to the Lord. But I was not willing to give up the so-called pleasures of this world and submit my life to Christ. For another 10 years I refused to open my heart to the things of God, even though Sherry's parents-(terrific Assembly of God people) gently & quitely lived out their christian lives before me. I continued to try to find "the truth" on a daily basis in everything from whisky, beer, marijuana, tranquilizer's, uppers, downers, etc. until I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown from all the trash that was in my mind & body.

Finally, desperate for anything, feeling at rock bottom & without hope, (like Thomas in John 14:5-not knowing which way to go, which way to turn), I tried going to church (Braeswood Assembly of God in Houston, Texas). The Holy Spirit began to speak to my heart about all the sin in my life & I started to feel very uncomfortable with my whole life-style. I left church that day angry with God because I did not want to "surrender all" to Jesus. But I came back to church the next week for more and this time I began to actually listen very closely to what the preacher was saying. I began to read the book of John and fourteen chapters later (in March of 1983), I found the answer to all my questions, about "the truth" in JOHN 14:6-"Jesus said to him (Thomas), 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.'"

Bingo! There was my answer-it was JESUS! So, in a church pew in March, 1983 I quietly asked Jesus to forgive me of all my sins, to wash me in His precious blood, & to come and live in my heart as my Lord & King & Master. I few weeks later I obeyed the Lord in water baptism, and shortly thereafter at a church revival, I was filled with the Holy Ghost & began to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance! Wow! A new boldness & power came into my life! And praise God!, before long, filled with a new song of praise in my heart, I picked up my guitar & began a new life of praise & worship in Jesus Christ!

May God bless you richly as we lift up His name in praise!

Your servant in Christ,

Tom Lascoe