Divine Intervention brought him to Valley Forge Baptist for the first time.

He accepted Christ at 17, but he describes himself as lukewarm at best until the age of 47. When 2008 came around, his general contracting business had grown. Now with multiple employees and 9 work trucks, things were going well.

Then the financial crisis hit. His wife Debi was diagnosed with breast cancer not very long after. He found himself unable to dedicate the time he needed to both his wife’s medical needs, and his business. So he entrusted one of his own employees to run things while he tended to his wife. He was perfectly setup to take a fall.

He recalls to me that he was heavily leveraged, everything he owned he was making payments on and behind on. When the bottom dropped out, and work dried up, he still had all of the overhead. Unfortunately the business wasn’t managed properly in his absence, making a tough time even harder.

Eventually he found he had nothing left. He had a friend, Rob Floros, who told him on numerous occasions that he really needed to talk to a pastor. One day, to get Rob to stop pestering him, he agreed on one condition – that if he went that he would never bug him about it again. Eventually Keith would find himself in Pastor Eifert’s office.

He was struck by the simple wisdom of biblical counsel, especially when he needed it most. He remembers it being said that if you had to borrow that much money to expand, maybe you shouldn’t have expanded. That stuck with him.

After every piece of counsel he received from Pastor Eifert was presented, he would be shown the chapter and verse in the Bible backing it up. It changed everything. His life began to slowly change, as God’s Word began to do its work in his life. Eventually he would be asked to help out at our addictions recovery ministry, now called Freedom that Lasts. Now after years of serving in it, he is the director himself.

Much has changed over the years. Debi has now been cancer free for 16 years they are completely debt free. Keith is no stranger to the many stories of lives being changed by the truth of God’s Word. And one of the most meaningful stories to him, is his own.