Nov 212 min read

Commissioning Testimony – Cadet Michellie Higginbottom

From: Katherine Corps, Northern Territory

Appointed to: Corps Officer – Tuggeranong Corps, ACT Silver Star recipients: Major Erica Jones, Major Peter Jones Academic award: Certificate of Salvation Army Officer Training, Bachelor of Ministry –in progress

Somebody recently asked me what my ‘life verse’ was, and it was not a difficult decision.

Matthew 4:19 instantly came to mind, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!” This passage was a turning point in my journey to ministry and learning who I was meant to be in God’s story.

The call to full-time ministry came into my life at a very early age, and even though I was surrounded by people who encouraged and empowered me, I was full of doubt.

I tried to follow other paths and satisfy my calling in different ways because I did not feel capable of fulfilling what God had asked of me.

When the opportunity to serve in the Northern Territory arose, I could not escape this verse. Choosing to follow despite my fears, I embarked on this journey.

It has been both challenging and rewarding, teaching me how God uses our doubts and flaws for his glory. A call I will continue to follow every day to show others that God desires to empower them in the same way.

Bible verse: “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. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:9, 10, NIV).