From Transvestite to Transformed

I didn't understand why life was always leading me to roads that brought me suffering, pain and agony. Roads that I didn't choose to go down, that only made me cry. My life was so hard to bear, I lived on the stages of the discos waiting for people to give me applause. For so long I didn't even know what it meant to sleep.

I was slave of drugs, and had to flee to live and hide not to die. This was my life.

​I couldn't even see my mom cry in distress, where she was expecting to hear at any time the news that I was dead. As a boy I already had to put up with the great prejudice. Society was telling me that there was no place for me. I had no peace, I was not happy. The Word "sad" was a summary of my life. Where I left my heart? Hope was blown away by the wind, and my feelings too, escaped me. I need someone to help me.

I was a drug dealer, I was high all the time. I stole and sometimes i slept with a gun, but I knew God had a plan for me. My dream was to build a family, be able to go with my head held high and be treated like a normal person.

Friends, the plan that the Lord had for my life was to get away, change and save me!
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Today I am no longer that transvestite, or drug dealer and I don't even practice macumba (a form of Brazilian witchcraft) anymore.

Psalm 40:1-3 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
 
Today Cristiano is a missionary. From 13 to 25 August he will be on a tour in Rio de Janeiro in the ministries of the word and praise. Will be released soon his DVD: "From Transvestite to Transformed"