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From Skeptic to Believer: Social Media Star Trisha Fenimore’s Unbelievable Transformation
“Once you drink that first one, it takes you on a ride you never agreed to go on. Every day in every way I swore, I vowed, you know, I'm never gonna do it again. I'd pour it down the drain only to be going out at 4:00 PM later that day to get more.” At 22, Trisha Fenimore realized alcohol was destroying her life. What started as an elixir to build confidence and self-esteem, was now in control and exposing the hate she had for others. She says, “It lowered my inhibition so that I was willing to vocalize that hate and to act out that hate.” Hatred Trisha says started when she rejected God as young girl. She had always shown a lot of potential and was placed in her school’s accelerated programs. For her, being smart equated to being a good person, so she decided in fifth grade she had no need for God. She recalls, “Everyone tells me I am smart, you know, so I could probably do this life thing on my own. I could maintain a good enough heart on my own. We'd say the Pledge of Allegiance. And from then on, I just stopped saying the words ‘under God’, and that was the expression of my atheism. Until I went to college and was able to really dive in the deep end of that angry, militant, atheism, argumentative spirit.”
It was in college she discovered alcohol gave her the confidence to voice her anger and hatred towards anyone who disagreed with her, especially Christians. She recalls, “I became very combative, highly aggressive and hostile to anyone who even dared mention, God, if I saw a cross necklace on somebody, I was just filled with rage about it. It really grew very quickly in my life, and I was, I was filled with such hate toward people of faith, but all people.”
Trisha dropped out of college after three years and took a minimum wage job. Feeling the guilt of wasted potential only deepened her need for alcohol. She says, “I wanted somebody to blame, I wanted a scapegoat, and I sure didn't want it to be me. I began to look at other people like they were at fault. And I hated and envy them for being able to navigate life without, you know, what I was going through.” At 22, she realized she had to stop drinking, but over the next year, every attempt brought another failure. Then, one morning just before her 24th birthday, after another night of black-out drinking, Trisha finally took an honest look her life. She says, “I thought about the trajectory of things. I thought about alcohol's role in it all. I thought about my decision way back when to eliminate God from my life. And I just said, ‘God, I don't know what you are. And I don't know if you are, but if you are, I am willing to have been wrong about you my entire life. If you please help me’.”
Trisha didn’t drink that day… or the next. In fact, for the next two weeks, every time she felt tempted, she asked God for help, and she was able to resist. After two weeks, she got a better job as a restaurant hostess. One night while filling in behind the bar for the bartender, Trisha spilled vodka all over herself. The smell of alcohol brought back a familiar urge. She recalls, “I just thought in my inner most being, ‘I cannot do this. I cannot stay sober’. I felt a voice like it almost like vibrated within every cell of my body. And I just felt the words, ‘even when evil surrounds you, I am with you’. I was literally surrounded by alcohol. And in that moment, it was like God saying, ‘you are surrounded by the very thing that has harmed you the most, that you are defenseless against. And I am with you and you're gonna be okay. I will get you through this’. When I felt those words and felt it in my being, I knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was a God. And that was the day that my atheism died.”
Although Trisha conquering her drinking, she was still captive to the anger and hatred she felt towards others, and herself. For two years she searched through the Bible and other religious texts looking for guidance but found none. Then one night, after a devastating breakup with her boyfriend, Trisha went for a walk. She recalls, “And I said, ‘God, I thought this guy was your plan for me. I'm out of ideas. Show me what you want for me’. And then I sat there, and I looked at the sky and I got increasingly angry because I felt entitled to a response from God in the way that I expected it.” It was then Trisha passed a church where some people were coming out and she felt drawn to go talk with them. “And I said, my name's Tricia. I'm a recovering alcoholic and I'm either gonna drink or kill myself. They showed kindness and love to me. They never forced it, but they just showed the love of Jesus.” It turned out to be a Bible study group and they invited Trisha to join them. Over the next few months, they continued showing her the love of Jesus as they helped her learn to trust God. It was in that bible study that Trisha fully surrendered her life to Jesus. She says, “I felt a hope that I had been created with purpose, on purpose. I learned that I was born in the image of God and that I have profound value, irreplaceable value and purpose in that.”
Still, one stronghold remained in Trisha’s heart – racism. A year after giving her life to Christ, Trisha felt God wanted her to take a class in a predominately black seminary in Harlem. She recalls, “It was very uncomfortable, but it was also one of the most transformative and beautiful experiences of my life.” In that class, Trisha finally learned to see everyone as made in God’s image with a purpose and value. Again, she felt God’s prompting to humbly ask others for forgiveness. She says, “He did convict me to reach out to several people in my past. And I did write them letters. I did call, and I did repent directly to my black brothers and sisters who I had harmed in the past.” Trisha has stayed sober since she first cried out to God in 2011. She is married with two small boys and has a large online presence where she shares God’s love and the power of forgiveness. She believes, “Whatever struggle you have, whether it's racism, whether it's addiction, whether it's jealousy, whether it's envy, lust, whatever on the run, the gamut. If we seek God daily and in every hard moment, He will deliver us from that; we need to continually seek Him. And that for me has been the only way out from literally the gates of Hell.”
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Previewing Heaven During Heart Operation
“I was, my body was present in the hospital, they cut on that body in the hospital. All those things was happening to that body, this body in the hospital. However, I was somewhere else.” After having two children in her 40’s, Mernistyne Rennette says she developed postpartum cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition that soon became congestive heart failure. She says, “I was having hard time breathing. I was short, shortness of breath is an understatement. I couldn't lay down flat. I had to lay down or sleep sitting up propped up on pillows.”
She had a pacemaker inserted to keep her heart in rhythm – still, she continued to struggle as her health declined. “It started that my pacemaker wasn't enough after a while when it started to go bad, it went bad kind of really, really quick.” She remembers, “And they actually told my family to place me in hospice because I wasn't even gonna make it six months. And that six months got shorter and they said there's nothing else we could do, put in hospice or just take a home to die comfortably amongst her loved ones, family, and friends.”
In 2019 a different hospital agreed to perform heart surgery in an attempt to extend her life. There were complications and Mernistyne slipped into a coma. She says while her body was in the hospital, she was somewhere else. “I had went to a place the only scripture can try to describe. I was sitting down at a table eating, listening to the joy behind this humongous, this humongous door. All I did this entire time, I laughed and I ate. I looked at the pretty little gifts at the end of the table. This door, I wished that I had the adjectives to describe the door. The light on the other side of the door was so bright. The...just the little spaces that separate the top from the bottom, you couldn't even really look at that light. It was so bright. And I sat at that table and I was at peace. And oh my God, bliss, it's nothing like it. The peace that surpasses all understanding. And when you are in a place of joy, the scripture say the joy of the Lord is your strength. I didn't, I didn't, you couldn't tell me I was nowhere near sickness. I don't know if those were angels or souls behind that door, but I could hear the bliss magnified behind the door. The fruit and the food that I ate, I just want a little bit of it now. When I finally got up from that table to walk over to that door to put my hand out to touch the knob of that door, I came back to earth. I woke up. And when I woke up, from what I understand, I was singing. I’ll testify everywhere I go, yeah. Oh Jesus, Oh Jesus.”
Mernistyne faced a difficult recovery and longed to return to the tranquil peace she had experienced at the heavenly banquet table. She encourages others who have lost loved ones, to believe that they are in perfect peace. She says, “If they're a believer and they've had a smidgen of what I experienced, they don't wanna come back, for what? Come back for what? You are in a place where there's no more pain, there's no more suffering, there's peace that surpasses all understand, it surpasses all understanding. His ways are not our ways, His thoughts are not, you cannot, there are no adjectives to describe what overtakes your spirit when you are anywhere near His true presence. There's nothing like it. If you open the door of your heart and let Him in, He will become just as real to you as any other human being. I don't care what seems impossible with God. All things, all things are possible. And I believe that. Matter of fact, I'm past believing I know it now there's a difference.”
She knows now. Five years after her heavenly experience and just two weeks after this interview with CBN, Mernistyne’s heart beat its last. She is now at peace in the light and joy on the other side of that door.

They Had No Means to Eat! Until...
Delfina lives with her 3 children in Guatemala. Her husband works as a farm laborer when he can find work. Their son, Derik, said there never seemed to be enough food for them to eat saying, “My classmates told me that they ate cereal and eggs. I wanted that but we couldn’t afford it.”
Delfina tries to help out with the family income during harvest season, explaining, "Here women do not earn much. Depending on the job we earn about 5 dollars a day.”
When they don’t work, the whole family suffers. Delfina says, "Some days they asked me, ‘is there even an egg or bread?’ I couldn't give them anything because I didn't have it.” Derik shares, “I want to eat chicken and try other foods.”
Then Operation Blessing visited Delfina and invited her to take part in a chicken project. After her training we gave her a shed, feed and 195 chickens to start a poultry and egg business.
A delighted Delfina shares, “My kids are happy. My daughter loves scrambled eggs and now I can give them to her. I'm so happy.”
Derik gratefully says, “Thank you with all my heart for helping us because now we will have a better life.”

Superbook Conquers the Land
In the heart of Thailand, two Superbook camps were held this October, one in Pattaya and the other in Chiang Mai. These camps, themed “Conquer the Land,” aimed to empower children to overcome fear through the teachings of God’s Word while fostering new friendships among participants from various churches. The camps saw a remarkable turnout, with over 250 children and adults.
Miss Phuangyok, a dedicated Sunday school teacher, shared her experience at the camp. “The Superbook camp left a profound impression on the teachers, especially with the dedication of the volunteers who put their all into preparing and leading the children through every activity—truly outstanding,” she said. The inclusivity of the camp was particularly noteworthy, as it welcomed children of all backgrounds, including those with special needs, ensuring they could participate fully and receive blessings alongside their peers without any discrimination.
The camp’s activities centered around the story of Joshua, including a walk rally with five stations, each teaching the children a different characteristic of Joshua: Be Still, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Joyful, and Be Shining. Additionally, group activities throughout the week allowed children to create crafts representing spiritual weapons against evil, which they then presented to their peers.
On the final day, a powerful simulation of the walls of Jericho was set up. Children wrote their fears on the walls and then walked around them in silence in a reenactment of the Bible story. Later the children tore down the walls to symbolize how God had helped them to overcome their fears and enter the “promised land” He had given them.
The impact of the camp was profound. “The most joyous part is that six out of the seven children we brought chose to pray to accept Jesus, and they made that decision on their own, without anyone nudging them. They believed with their hearts, which fills us with deep gratitude to God,” Miss Phuangyok shared. This heartfelt transformation was a testament to the power of the Superbook curriculum and the dedication of the volunteers and teachers.
Superbook camps like these are more than just events; they are life-changing experiences that bring children closer to God and help them grow in their faith. “If the camp is held again next year, we will definitely come back because we believe that attending Superbook camp aligns with our goal of wanting to see children grow in faith and walk in God’s ways,” Miss Phuangyok affirmed.
We invite you to join us in this mission to bring the Word of God to life for the next generation. By donating to CBN Animation’s Superbook ministry through the link below, sharing this story, or accessing Superbook resources for your own families, you can help extend this ministry to even more children and families around the world. Together, we can inspire more children to experience the love of Jesus, conquer their fears, and embrace their faith with courage and joy.
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