CHUCK AND SHARON GIACINTO
After the birth of their son, Sharon began to experience muscle weakness and extreme fatigue.  It was discovered that her pituitary had stopped functioning properly.

Sharon would spend weeks at a time at Loyola Medical Center where they put her on massive doses of steroids to sustain her organs.

When Sharon became ill in her late twenties, Chuck was a barber.  The doctors made it clear that the steroids could only be taken for seven years and after that her organs would begin to shut down and death would follow.

Chuck set out to give his wife a lifetime in those seven years.  He went into the real estate business and did extremely well.  He then opened a furniture store and did well there also.

In their mid-thirties, possessing all that the world would think was worth having, Chuck was about to lose his wife, who by then was down to 83 pounds, legally blind in one eye, and wearing a wig because of hair loss.

Chuck had worked his way up to drinking two quarts of martinis and one quart of stingers a day, and was also involved in the new age and the occult.  They were faithful members of a mainline denomination and wondered daily why God would allow this to happen.

Then, at the end of the seven years, the steroids no longer worked and Sharon was not a physical candidate for any other medical procedure.  It was then that one of their employees asked permission to pray for her.  She prayed in a way they were not used to and Sharon was healed instantly, eyesight and all!

Loyola Medical Center confirmed that Sharon now had a fully working pituitary!  Chuck saw what the Lord had done for his wife and cried out to Him to be set free from the bondage of alcohol.  His cries were heard and two lives were changed forever!

For the first time in their lives, they realized that what they had had was religion and not a personal relationship with the risen Christ.  Now nothing was more important than sharing their new found faith and good news with others.  They rented chairs two nights a week and held revival services in their home, which in time turned into a church.

They currently co-pastor the church they founded 20 years ago, which has a Christian Academy, and accredited Bible College and a food pantry.  They are in love with Jesus and have a heart for the harvest of the lost and needy.  Pleasing the Father is at the top of their list, and they do their best to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.