A testimony from a Graduate from 1980

Pivot Ministries Graduate from April 1980
Fredrick B. Goldin

My Father was the son of an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi that immigrated to the United States from Russia during the first revolution in the early 1900’s. If you ever have seen “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” you will have an idea what my Father experienced, escaping communism and religious persecution.


My Grandfather was Rabbi Samuel Goldin. Principal and teacher at the “YESHIVA” (a Bible school for Rabbis), in the Bronx, NY. As an adult my father decided to live a more liberal American Jewish lifestyle. So my Jewish upbringing was more cultural than it was spiritual. My family had moved several times. This left me very lonely, depressed and starving for acceptance. In September of 1973 I was invited to a Campus Life for Christ “BURGER BASH”. This was an outreach that offered me the opportunity to eat all the cheeseburgers I could eat, at the same time also hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached for the very first time. I was more interested in cheeseburgers than I was with Jesus. But there was a seed planted in my heart.
After attending many months of youth events and Bible studies. I invited Jesus to be my MESSIAH on January 20, 1974. For the first time in my life I felt loved, accepted and like there some purpose for my life. I understood what it was to know Jesus as my SAVIOUR but not as my LORD. After graduation from High School, just starting out in life. I allowed the cares and riches of this world to make me fall away from God. By the end of November 1979 I was addicted to drugs, alcohol, jobless, and homeless. I needed help. I had 3 choices. Suicide, The United States Army, or coming to a place called PIVOT MINISTRIES. I was too chicken to commit suicide and too fat for the US Army. So my only real option was to come to PIVOT.


I came into the Norwalk Induction center on November 29, 1979. Pivot was like a combination of a Spirit filled Bible College with the discipline of the US Army. It was at Pivot where I gained a solid foundation of Bible study, and started to learn what it was to know Jesus, not only as my Savior, but as LORD. After completing Pivot, I was transferred to the Teen Challenge Training Center in Rehrersburgh, PA. It was there I learned how to play the piano and the calling to full time ministry was confirmed in my heart. I graduated the entire program on January 2, 1981.


Since then I have had the opportunity to travel all over the USA and Canada playing music and directed one of the Teen Challenge choirs. I went to Southeastern Bible College in Florida. I eventually moved to Las Vegas, NV. Where I held many different secular jobs. I sold cars, pianos and organs. I even drove a taxicab for many years. I found a fantastic church, ICLV (International Church of Las Vegas). I started a ministering to homeless people with drug and alcohol addictions, out of my 2 bedroom apartment. After about 3 years of doing this, I realized I needed more training in this area of ministry. So as of January 2007 I moved from Las Vegas and am back working with Pivot Ministries on staff and with their Public Relations department. God has a wonderful plan for my life. He started my journey here 26 years ago at Pivot and has brought me back, to fulfill the destiny and plan He has for my life.


I want to thank all the Churches and people who have been faithful in their giving to this Ministry. For 37 years Pivot has been used by God to save and change the lives of thousands of men. Each of the men who come through the doors of this ministry will go on to touch hundreds maybe even thousands of lives. This will be counted as fruit to your account, for your faithfulness to PIVOT MINISTRIES.