My testimony is all about God. His commitment to me, from the beginning, till now, and for eternity.

My testimony will show that great commitment, when God chose me for the great task of evangelism, (before I was born) especially Highway 2 heaven ministries. He would shed many a tear knowing that through all of my life, he was building me for great things for the Kingdom of Heaven. He searched all over and came up with me. How humble I feel today, that he would have considered little old me.

“GOD” This is for you!

“This is all about you”

I was born on the 29” of the 5" 1953. Russell Henry Hildebrandt.

My first memory of life was when at the age of around two, I was in an old utility moving from Melbourne to Horsham in Victoria with my family. Three sisters, and a brother all sitting up the back with a tarp over the top of us to keep warm from the cold. At some point I was put in the cabin with my mom and dad. I and can remember the big green army coat of my dads being put around me and sitting
on the wooden floor between the two of them.

The next memory of life was where satan came in to lie, steal and destroy. The first sin was that of sexual abuse. At the age of three. In the safety of my bedroom, where my baby brother was sleeping, satan came to destroy. That sin made me dysfunctional in many areas of my life and set a precedent for further sin and lies to alter Gods plan for me.
Life for a long time I was that of a boy who would be just a boy, doing boy things. Building cubby houses out of cut down trees. Running to the river to build rafts and make rope swings, and follow the paths of sheep that would graze the surrounding areas, just to explore and use ones mind to imagine all things are possible.

The second sin for satan to place in my life was at the age of around 11 or 12. An accident involving my younger brother, who was two years younger than me, was accidentally shot in the face with an air rifle. Having to go to the hospital for surgery to have the pellet removed from his cheek. The local police were called and that set the scene for the next satan bearing sin to my life. My mother, who loved my younger brother very much, waited til my father left two days later to travel back to his army camp where he worked. Waited till no one else was around and went into a mad rage. So intense was the rage that she threw me under the family kitchen table. She pinned me down by sitting on my chest, also using her legs to pin my arms down also. Pulling my head back by using my hair she exposed my neck. She had already taken the large bread knife from thekitchen draw, placed it at my throat and threatened to cut it. It was not my mother on top of me but satan himself. Deep inside of her eyes he was peering through, preparing to end my life.
It was at that moment in my life that I have come to know without doubt, that our heavenly father, my heavenly father came down from heaven and spoke to satan.
You can test my son but you can't kill him.
I know this to be biblical as God also allowed satan to test Job, but would not let him kill him either.
That sin in my life made me even more dysfunctional. I became more introverted. Was bullied relentlessly, feared life itself, and were even a bed wetter well into my teens.

At the age of seventeen my parents moved to the city of Geelong. This changed my life for ever. I found girls cars and fun. This included drinking and sport where I found freedom from the past. At 29 I had an experience while being separated from my second wife where through a fight I hit a man where It broke the man’s scull and nearly cost him his life. The law saw fit to send me to prison for a period of time which made me think about where I was heading.

Years passed and around 1993 I had an injury to my spin while working for a company. This put me on what was known as work cover for 3 years and 3 months and was one of the most difficult of my life. Being separated and with a 12 year old daughter to care for and 33% percent of my spine damaged it took all of me to keep going. 11 months into that Time I went back to church and was baptized on the 15th of May 1994. This was the beginning of an incredible time in my life.

Coming out of work cover I set up a new home and re built my family and relationship with my then second wife.

I also set up a business and over time had 4 semis (trucks) with 4 drivers and even then satin was always planning to destroy me. Having called the business INRI transport I desired to set the company up so I might at a time in the future do ministry for God.

Some 5 years ago this all failed and loosing that company, then my home I was left on a disability pension because of my spine.

It was not long after that that my family was all gone through a chain of events. My wife at the time ran away with one of my daughter’s fiancés, and then my daughter tried to commit suicide. That was one of the very hardest things I had to deal with in my life, the whole family separated and I became homeless. No Job, no where to live and on a pension. I did however have a 36 year old valiant Ute a dog and a billiard table. Yes I sold the table, kept the dog and the Ute.

Then 4 years ago God brought a dove into my life. Katrina and her two children. This was the beginning of an amazing time in my life. God has in 4 years turned my life from what was once crap to a time of direction and purpose. With amazing love from Kat and the kids, with Gods commitment to me to start the ministry of Highway 2 heaven it is truly the best time of my life.

There is of course more to my testimony but for now I just want to give God all the Glory for what he has done in my life and look forward to the future with him.