As a little child I went to a Roman Catholic school in our home town of Darb El Sime a suburb of Sidon. When I reached the fifth grade my parents sent me to the French Nuns school in New Abra, another suburb of Sidon. I stayed in that school until I reached my high school year. I wanted to enroll in college and about that time the moslems attacked East Sidon in 1985 and my family and I had to flee for our lives. We managed to escape to the security zone We lived in Marjaeoun first for a year and then we settled in Klaiaa. There was a university in Burj Al Moulouk right next to Klaiaa called The Lebanese Unversity. I enrolled in that university and my major was law.

When I was a child a saw people die and I used to wonder where these people went. Once a close relative of mine died and I asked my parents where did our relative go? And they had no answer. So I went to the priest and I asked him where do dead people go? When I die where will I go and he said to me: " Just do good works and you don't have anything to worry about ". I went to the Nuns and asked them where do I go when I die and they said they did not know but they assumed that if I did good works I would go to Heaven. I was not pleased with their answers and I was very unhappy and sad.

One day I found the Bible and began reading it to myself. I read in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus saying "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest". My heart was very refreshed and I felt that Jesus was there and I could speak to Him and trust Him. So I decided to ask Him into my heart and surrender my life to Him. I came to Jesus just as I was and He transformed my life. I prayed to Him and I felt very happy and I felt a tremendous change in my heart.

My life changed, even when people died I was not afraid of death anymore. Then I began being concerned for my Lebanese Christian people. We were at war with the Palestinians, we were at war with the Moslems, and we were especially at war with the Terrorist Shiite Moslems. Every week we had a Christian killed in combat but they did not know about the comfort and consolation in Christ. I was also interested in knowing the Bible better. At that time I heard about a Baptist pastor who came to out area to start a Baptist church. His name was Ramzi George Kammar and he was a single man. I went to his church and I noticed that they had neither statues nor pictures in the church but they were good people who studied the Bible and lived by it. So I decided to become a Baptist and I join them. I got baptized and I even started teaching Sunday School. I was very happy and I wanted to serve God more so I left the Lebanese University and gave up my major in law although I had finished the first year. I wanted to seek the spiritual things only, so I wanted to be prepared for service so I applied to a Baptist Bible College in Beirut, Lebanon and I was accepted.

After two months Pastor Ramzi Kammar had moved to Jerusalem, Israel to start another church there. He missed me and I missed him. He called me and proposed to me to become his wife. I very gladly accepted. I left the Baptist Bible College in Beirut, Lebanon to become the wife of the Baptist pastor in Jerusalem, Israel. My husband took me to Mr. Uri Moore and to Mrs. Yehudith Sar Shalom in the ministry of religion. They interviewed me and they approved me. So I was able to live in Jerusalem, Israel and they gave me a letter to the ministry of Interior who gave me an A 4 visa. Then Rev. Ramzi and I were married at the Hyatt Regency fancy hotel on the French Hill on January 31, 1993.

I have been living here in Jerusalem since then. God has given me three children: George was born on Mount Zion on March 23, 1994 Peter was born Mount Zion as well a year later on March 13, 1995 Kristi was born on furlough in Washington D.C. on Nov 16, 1996

During this time we had the opportunity to visit America three times. The first trip was in 1996 when Kristi was born. At that time my husband sponsored me for immigration purposes and I became an American Immigrant. In 1999 we went to the States for our children's immigration papers. And in 2001 we went to get our American citizenships.

Upon naturalization or upon becoming an American citizen I changed my name from Nabila Khammar to Ruth Ramzi Kammar. Ruth because I loved Ruth of the Bible and Ramzi Kammar because I love my husband very much. So my legal name on my American passport is Ruth Ramzi Kammar. My husband, myself and our three children are American citizens carrying American passports.

While in the States in 1999, I suffered from health problem in my back. After two months of search they found out that there was birth defect in my spinal chord. Dr. Joseph Mayo of the famous Mayo Clinic performed the surgery on my back in Los Angeles. I have become good since but with limited physical capabilities. This is fine with me because my life consists of not much physical work. I teach my children their lessons every afternoon when they come back from school. I teach Sunday School morning and evening on Sunday and I go with my husband when we visit people.

We used to live below Salah Eddin Street and the Moslems there are bad. One night, the first night after we returned from our honeymoon some Moslems attacked us with fireworks. One of them hit me in the lip and I began to bleed. So my husband took me back to the house where we were visiting. They treated my lip and covered us up in their car and took us back to our apartment. We moved to the Old City to the Christian Quarter inside the old city walls Jerusalem. We labored very hard for three years during which time we found out that there were pastors in Beit Hanna in East Jerusalem. So we moved to Beit Hanina and began to minister here.

We are accepted by the Arab Christians and we teach them the Love of God and that Jesus came down from Heaven to teach us peace and to live in peace and harmony with our selves and with others. My husband and I believe we are very successful at the ministry the Holy Spirit has given to us and we are happy to be faithful as long as the Lord Jesus will allow us to.

Yours in Christ Jesus,

RUTH KAMMAR, Wife of the Rev. Pastor Dr. RAMZI GEORGE KAMMAR