Hi. I'm Ron Baker Jr.
I can sum up my whole brief witness in one word. Grace.
The grace He showed me when I was 16, steadying the truck as my drunken friends and I stood in the back, urinating over the tailgate while travelling at seventy MPH down the highway. The grace He showed me when I was 18, lost, scared, alone & confused, and considered jumping off the sixth floor of my college dorm. He sent someone to stop me before I even cared who He was.
The grace He showed me at 21, as I followed the Grateful Dead around the country. I can think back to so many dangerous, drug-filled instances, where I would surely have died, if not for His grace.
The grace that brought a young woman named Rebecca into my life 8 years ago, who was (and still is) so much more than I deserve, and who God used to quietly lead me toward the door of the kingdom without either of us knowing it.
The grace that spoke a whisper into my ear at 3 AM on May 17th, 1995 saying, "let go of the wheel", as my BMW careened off the road while I was driving home plastered from my own bachelor party. Had I not listened, and let go of the wheel I can say with certainty, that I would be in hell right now because the eighty foot pine tree that took the mirror off the side of my car at sixty MPH would have been buried right in the center of the hood.
The grace that held our marriage together in 1995 - 96 as I stayed out until two or three in the morning drinking, while my new bride sat home weeping.
The grace that led her, and eventually me to Pine Knolls Alliance church, where several people who cared more about me than I did cornered me into attending a Promise Keepers conference in Syracuse in the summer of 1996.
The grace that broke me at that conference, and brought me weeping to my knees at the front of the Carrier Dome. There were 40,000 men at that conference, but for those few minutes it was just me & Jesus and He showed me His love, and I saw just how undeserving I was.
The grace that brought me into ministry through music, allowing me to share with you, what He has done for me and defined my purpose in this place, until the Lord calls me Home.
The grace that brought me friends like Steve and Alisa.
The grace that created Impact.

...But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9

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Hi, my name's Alisa Umholtz.
I was born as the only child in a family of three on May 5, 1978. My mother was Jewish, and my father became a Christian when I was eight. Around this time my family started doing Bible readings every Sunday morning . We also started to experience different churches, but this created a lot of conflict. My mother felt very uncomfortable because of her Jewish heredity, which clashed with my father's new-found and sometimes overexcited faith in Christ.
Eventually these conflicts pushed me away from God, and I started to live my life seeking acceptance by my peers. I still seemed to have God with me because I did manage to stay away from the drugs, smoking , and alcohol that so many were falling into, but there was no real committment to God there.
When I was eleven, my family and I went to a Billy Graham crusade. I'm still not sure if I understood all of it, but God touched me there, because I made my first real committment to God. My belief started to grow into a real faith as my family decided to give Church another try. We went to Pine Knolls alliance church in South Glens Falls one Sunday and the uncomfortable feelings about church that had been with my family for the last four years seemed to dissolve, and we actually went back.
I had been playing guitar in a secular band all this time, and had just switched to drums. Steve Bodai was playing bass. Somehow in my friendship with Steve he saw the enthusiasm I had for the worship at Pine Knolls, and he decided he wanted to try church as well. Soon after that we both joined the worship team. We started trying to talk, pray, and just relate to each other as Christians. This was a totally new experience for me. It made me feel more comfortable in conversation and learning how to interact with people, and helped me to grow immensely. Later, Ron joined the worship team, and you should know what happened after that since you are reading this page.
Through Impact, God has worked SO much in my life - especially since I've let Him. My friends and family can back me up on this. I've matured alot, and God has become more real in my life than ever. He has grown in my heart like I never imagined, and He just takes one thing at time away from my life that would hinder His plan for me. I am SO excited to see what He has in store for me.

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Hi! My name is Steve Bodai.
Regret, regret, regret. That is what comes to mind when I think of what I did with my life before I opened my eyes to my savior, Jesus Christ.
I lived without Him for 31 years, 14 of which I spent searching for answers everywhere but the Bible. I never felt whole, even though I always felt I had a great purpose. I knew I was a special person, and had something to do while I was here, but I could never figure out what this was and always ended up feeling lost and out of place.
After trying to fit in by doing things the world's way and seeking acceptance by my friends as one of their own I was still empty and felt this great purpose was still unfulfilled. I found my comfort, as so many do, in drinking and drugs. I could see God at work in my life, but I would just pass it off as luck or coincidence.
I looked to the occult for my answers, through psychics, and got lost there for some time until a friend, much younger, and much less wise to the ways of the world (or so I thought) led me toward the way, and the truth by a simple invitation to attend church with her. I went for all the wrong reasons, but just minutes after the singing and praising began I experienced the peace I had been searching for all those years, and suddenly realized my search was over. I was home.
I decided it was time to seek after this Jesus, and began to shed my worldly habits. Some went fast, and some remain, but I know I am going in the right direction, and I know that He has been with me all the way. Through the wisdom and support of other followers I have grown, and it is my desire to keep growing in the wisdom that only God can provide me with.
Through Impact, God has given me a vessel to share the love God has for me, and given me a chance to excite those who have been given God's love so they share that love with those people God places in their lives, who do not know what it means to feel His touch.