VW Bus Crash
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is a story of restoring and customizing a 1959 VW Bus. Even more than that, this is the story of the 1st time that I realized God was real through a major personal experience in my life.
We filmed this near the actual location of the VW Bus crash on a trip to Simi Valley in Southern California on 12/26/13. We were out on the Rocky Ridge trail where it was not the ideal filming conditions as the Santa Ana winds were blowing at gusts of up to 30 mph. I had a lot of fun in editing trying to remove the wind noise but not make my voice sound to weird.
Thank the Lord that I had taken these photos 30 years ago to be able to retell the amazing thing God did in my life in this video. All praise and glory goes to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!
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wow..
my fave lines_ "even that didnt totally wake me up" - a warning of the wickedness of heart
"I have God and not that bus" A call to reassess our priorities.
You were busy with the bus and God used the same bus to make you get busy telling people about Jesus. Praise God.
jeahere After that event in my life, now that I can look back on it through the eyes of being a Christian, I am thankful just to be alive to tell the story today. All that happened on that night and not even a scratch on myself. God is so good to have been patient with me when I was living a life totally opposed to Him and His ways. God's goodness and love for us is amazing!
Thank you for watching and commenting! God bless.
God is good....and all the time.....God is good
George Ramirez Amen! God bless.
Amazing Story and Message
Thank you sir! This was a video I knew that I needed to tell because of it being the 1st time that I knew and acknowledged that God was real. Have a great weekend! God Bless.
Expensive yard art now...
Haha! Yeah, for sure!
Im crying over the bus
I did a little crying myself :(
Same ;-;
Awesome story brother, thanks for sharing this. God is so awesome! He has kept me alive a couple a times too. His will be done :)
Agape, Donny
"His will be done" Amen Donny! I am glad that He did keep you alive that we have been able to get to know each other and be working for Him together. God Bless you and may we continue to grow in our relationships with our Lord.
Wow, I can't believe how long it has been but I remember like it was yesterday......awesome journey God has taken you on since those days....Love the Pic with Kitty Slicker on top!!!
No kidding! Working on this video definitely took me down memory lane. It was kind of hard remembering all the work I put into that thing and then it was gone. Thankfully God had a plan and now I am able to share a story about Him where I 1st realized that He was real. You made it into another video! Thanks for watching bro! God Bless you guys!
Great Message!!!
Thank you LightHouseLady! In putting this video together, I was reminded how thankful I need to be, to God, that I am still here to tell this story. My prayer is that all we do will glorify Him. God Bless you.
AWESOME STORY Thanks for sharing!!!
+Mike Daniel I am very thankful that I am here to tell that story! Thank you for watching and hope you are having a great day! God bless you!
GOD Bless you too!
The Lord defiantly had His eye on you! God Bless You!
Nora Steel I will tell you what, it still amazes me when I think about that day! I am definitely praising God for His protection in that situation! Thank you for watching and commenting! God bless you!
stupid remark ; whu god saves white man and lett 5 year old black girls be raped and killed why this man more importance
Stay to the subject!!! Jeech!
Clome on that's just pure luck! I survived a crash too and so have many other people. That has got nothing to do with god.
I'm not thinking that being held up in the air and defying gravity would be considered luck. As I think about being lucky and un-lucky, what exactly is that? It is something that would be considered unexplainable or magical favor or lack of it. Where does this unexplainable or magical power come from?
Personally, I don't believe in luck. I know the Lord God, our creator, in a real and personal way. Anyone that truly wants to know if God is real or not, can find out that He is. It is the whole reason and purpose that He put us here. To know Him in a real and personal way. God has made Himself known and has done too many things in my life to question His existence. I would have to be lying to myself to say I don't believe.
He absolutely saved me in my cash and maybe He did you as well to let you know He was with you and cares for you! :)
Have a good week! God bless!
bummer no subtitles on this video :( I'm deaf and had no idea what you are saying...
+MicBergsma Wow! I'm sorry that you were not able to hear it! I will have to write down the story at some point.
Basically, I spent about 3 years building and spending pay checks on it. It was basically all finished except for the interior. I drove it for about 3 weeks when I had fallen asleep at the wheel coming home very late at night. I just missed that car on the side of the road, hit the freeway sign that crashed into my roof and slid down the freeway on it's side for about 50 ft. There were no seat belts in the van, but something was miraculously holding me up and keeping me from falling down on the side of the van that was sliding down the freeway! God saved me from at least losing my legs if I would have hit the car that I missed by a fraction of an inch and from falling down on the side of my van while sling where I could have lost a hand or foot if I would have broke through a window. I swung my feet and legs down after it stopped sliding and stood up and remember saying "that was weird!" A few people stopped on the freeway and helped me flip the van back up on it's wheels and push it over to the side.
I just thank God that I am even here today to tell this story!
Thank you for watching and hope you are having a good day! God bless!
+Christian Adventure Films Thank you so much for your time to type down the info!!
MicBergsma No problem! Hope that helps and have a great weekend!
sorry for you lost
+pavel1809 Thank you for your concern and I hope you have a great day! God bless!
Awesome testimony! May the Lord Bless you and Keep you brother.
+Makikonu Surf Skate Thank you for your blessing and stopping by to watch the video! That was a very close call and I am very thankful to the Lord that I am here today! God bless you and hope you have a great week!
Really felt sorry for the bus being a car guy myself and being on my second 56 ford f100. the huge involvement in all aspects (time,money,work,emotional,etc) concerning a project like this take a great chunk of our lives so it's better be worth it. I totally respect the aftermath of your experience but I know death is freedom although temporary while life is so mistakenly overrated by us intelectual animals.Good luck, brother!
Roger Pinheiro Thanks for understanding losing something after putting so much of oneself into it. It really does take a big chunk of our lives as you say. God's word does teach us that this life on earth is temporary and that there will be trouble. Unfortunately when we look around us at how badly we treat each other, we do look like, as you say, "intellectual animals." Thankfully, God also tells us that this is not our home. He created us to live for all eternity in Heaven with Him, for those that believe. God bless and have a Merry Christmas!
Powerful testimony, brother in Christ, wow. 30 years ago I had my similar Damascus Road experience, (Honda Civic, not a splitty), but same result: it made a believer outta me. Apparently, that's what was needed for God to get our attention, so in the eternal picture, it was a good thing it happened. Sometimes, we have to lose our lives to receive it again. Btw, I'm currently restoring a '58 bus I found out in the woods in Alaska where I live, discarded and left for junk, and it's coming back great, a story of redemption in itself...if I can take an old junk bus and bring it back to useful, just think of what God can do with a discarded life...now, there's something to ponder. Praise God. Bless you.✌️
Glad you are ok and that you turned to the Lord! It is amazing what God does in our lives. Sounds cool that you found the bus and are going through the restoration process. Hopefully you will be able to enjoy it for many years. God bless!
@@christianadventure Amen. It warmed up to 25° today, so I got the bus outta the garage and drove to town. Fun to get 'er on the road once in a while. Merry Christmas 🤙✌
@@IAm1InTheIAm Very nice! Hope you had a Merry Christmas as well!
A story of God's love and grace.
Amazing story, bless you!
Wow incredible story! God's love & grace
+miguel thepainterdude Looks like the video was removed.
God hate Hippy Busses.
love it
+vwdarrin Thank's for watching!
Moral of the story? Don't drive your bus until it's *completely* restored!! This way you can pull off the road and jump in back and sleep. :-)
+Briandrum Yup! That would have been the right thing to do! :)
Or drink a coke before you drive home late at night.
TuneStunnaMusic Unfortunately, I think I was past that point to make a 45 minute drive home. :(
+Christian Adventure Films I've been there, I did stop at the side of the road though. Because I really like my car, and I started seeing double lines. Cop woke me up 20 min later and asked about the car. And I was refreshed and made it home.
TuneStunnaMusic Glad to hear that you were safe and made it!
Amazing.
+Riley Emlen-Petterson I am very thankful to God that I am able to be here today to tell the story! Thank you for stopping by and watching! God bless and have a great day!
Glad you weren't seriously hurt, are you going to fix up the vw bus?
Zoe Davids Thank you very much! Soon after the accident, I needed money and sold it for practically nothing. I think it would be cool to have it when I see the pictures of it all fixed up, but I am thankful for what the Lord has given me today! :) How did you come across this video?
Classic cars
Zoe Davids On a UA-cam search?
tengo un modelo 73 y me gustaría tenerlo así de bonito, que hermosas son las combis
I still love the looks of the old VW bus'! Have fun fixing yours up! Just don't wreck it like I did.... :)
Happy for you, sorry for the van,,,from aircoler for life from 64vw of nj
Thank you! I'll check it out!
Amen! Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Ga 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
Wow Doris, these are some very humbling verses to read. Jeremiah and Paul were some very great men of God to try to think of standing next to. We pray to God that we will have pure hearts and our motives as we do what God calls us to do in this ministry. God Bless you and thank you for your continued encouragement and support as we walk together with Jesus.
Even when we sometimes forget God .... Lucky for us He does NOT forget us!!! God was with you even if you had forgotten him. Otherwise, you would have died in that accident!!!!
I am so thankful that God did so much to get my attention to come to the point of truly desiring to follow Him and His ways! I never want to go back where I was without Him! God bless!
very nice, welcome being a new believer .god is the greatest
Amen +sabri rubi fernandez! God is truly awesome! Praying for God's blessings for you in this new year! Thanks for stopping by and watching!
It’s the vw gods coming after you for paining over that mango
Haha! Yeah, going against the original paint was a tough decision.
From the title, I was hoping this was about your van...
It was more about the crash and the amazing experience that I had. I did want to include the pictures of the process of building it though.
...get another bus, bring God along with...
Haha, no kidding .... Looking at the pictures again, while putting this video together, it made me think of how cool it would be to be able to drive it today. But, thinking of all that work that it took, it would be nice to be able to afford a finished one :) God Bless.
I thank God for protecting all of us, people, and giving us chance to learn from things like that. I almost got in to big accident with my 1961 bus. I lost all brakes on a highway. But God saved us at the last moment before our bus hit the cars in front of us. Here is my story ua-cam.com/video/OrwB39x7Hx4/v-deo.html God bless you all. Thank you.
Thank God He saved you from that accident! I will have to go over to check out your story! God bless!
@@christianadventure Thank you!
but why didn't you take the car to repair the dents, It's crazy to think that it took you many years to renovate the car for it to look like this man, really sad
It was too much work… and I think it kind of hurt me too much after all the work I had put into it.
@@christianadventure but what did you do with the car afterwards, did you sell it to someone or to dismantle it?
@@gameplaysdoguilhermito_9521 I sold it for almost nothing… and never even got paid the whole amount. Oh well, thankfully I’m not making the same mistakes as I did back then. I’m just making new ones to learn from. 😆
@@christianadventure but you could have made a crowdfunding on the internet, to raise money, for the renovation of the Kombi (named in my country because I live in Brazil) and revive it again and add insurance for it
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Thank you! God bless, Juan!
To bad you didn't ask "the lord" to fix your bus.
Berke Beenhouwer I have to say, I am very thankful for what He has given me in It's place!
I'd prefer the bus :)
Berke Beenhouwer Time and things are so fleeting. I am glad that I took all those pictures after all the work that was put into it to be able to remember what it looked like though. Hope you are having a good day!
*****
Have a nice day as well :)
Berke Beenhouwer lol
Similar fate(somewhat happened to me decades ago. My car broke down (not a vw or bus) in side of freeway late at night, (3 of us) walked to side road, I went back to car to see what was wrong. I inspected under car to see what issue was. Just as I got up from under from front of car, a drunk driver completely sideswiped my car and into a ditch. Praised GOD for my life. CHP said, never have your hazard light on. It's a drunk driver magnet.
Wow! Thank the Lord you didn't get hit! Something that close will definitely get get your attention! God bless and thank you for sharing your story!
So the devil gave you a sleeping pill and god saved you ...... Are you sure you didn't bang your head? (Really hard!)
JASON K No, no one gave me a sleeping pill. I was partying too much and out too late and fell asleep. As I said in the video, I was being held up from falling down to the side of the bus that was sliding across the freeway. There were no seat belts in that bus. No head hit. Not even a scratch. I was very shocked when I saw exactly where I went and what happened. I am thanking God for allowing me to live long enough to come to experience the life He had for me that I didn't even know existed.
JASON K ha
Christian Adventure Films you know, when you’re Shock you can seize up all of your muscles. It was you holding yourself up not “gooooooooddddd”
So why did he let you fall asleep? Why wouldn't god just pay you a visit if he wants you to change your path? That is how he did it in the old days. Do you really think god communicates by letting you have a car crash and then save you from death?
Nico van Os You have a good question. Unfortunately, for us humans, sometimes something like this is what it takes to get our attention. There were a number of times in my life, before the crash, that God was trying to speak to me through His people. I wasn't listening and didn't get it.
In the crash, no one was hurt and I didn't get a scratch, but I lost what was a god in my life at that time. It got my attention, and got me in a position where I would be willing to hear from Him in my future encounters with Him.
Thanks for asking! Hope you are having a good day! God Bless.
***** Well if an angel with wings comes to visit me it would make me listen more than a car crash. Some people survive a crash, so that is god saving them. Some people die in a crash. So is that also god? If the first case is true then the second must also be true.
The 'gods saved me because he had a plan' stories always make me uncomfortable, because it displays a desire of people to be special. Like a kid class that wants to be picked by the teacher to do a certain task.
It sounds to me that you made some changes in your life that have been good for you. Taking better care of yourself and doing good things for other people actually makes you feel better and happier. Isn't it more humble and good to acknowledge that and to live well than to assume you are chosen by god to be part of his plan.
Nico van Os The awesome part is that we are all loved and special to God, and He has a purpose and plan for each one of us. I am no one special because it wasn't my time to go yet. God just knew that this was what would get my attention.
God created us all to live for all eternity. In this short life we are now living, we get the chance to accept the gift of eternal life, with Him, that He is offering us. This, through what Jesus Christ did on the cross for each one of us.
God did come to this earth in the person of Jesus Christ, and we humans crucified Him on a cross.
I know where you're coming from, we humans have a tendency to want to tell God how He should do things. We can rest assured that He knows what He is doing. Even if we can't see it, His ways are higher and better than ours, because He is God.
How do you know all are loved by god? Isn't there going to be a judgement? Doesn't people go to hell? Would you send people you love to hell?
What is the plan for those people that had no changes in this world? I had a classmate in school that died on the age of 8 because of cancer. What is the big plan behind that?
Or in the case that someone I know had a baby that was born death.
If everything that he does is qualified as 'better' then how do we determine good from wrong? I believe that healthy and happy people having lives without suffering is better. And that is what I work on in my day to day life.
About Jesus christ. You say that 'we humans' crucified him. Do you mean you and I are also responsible for that? So each child born in this world is personally responsible for this crucifixion? Then unborn children are not without sin.
How can I be held responsible for something a tribe did in some distant land 2000 years ago? Is that just? Is that right? I know a few german people. I don't hold them responsible for something their parents or great parents did some 70 years ago.
And did god not come to earth to be crucified and to fulfil scripture? So before he came to earth he already knew for sure what was going to happen. That means that he wanted it to happen. So the people in those days basically carried out gods will.
There is something inherently wrong with the Jesus christ story. If god came to earth to forgive then why not just ... forgive? Why does a person or himself need to be tortured before he is able to forgive?
I'm sorry for being critical, but I had a religious upbringing and at some point I realised that most stories don't make sense when you think about it. And answers like 'those are his mysterious ways' did not satisfy me.
Nico van Os Hello. Hope you are well.
God tells us in His word that He loves us all, and He gives us all a choice to love Him or not. This is our free will that He has given us. He does not force us to love and obey Him. He created each one of us to come to know Him and experience His love for us personally, and to be with Him in the perfect place for all eternity.
He is a God of love, but He is also a just God. We learn right from wrong from what He, the creator of all things, teaches us. We either choose to love and obey Him and His ways or reject and live in rebellion toward Him and His ways. At the appointed time, He will gather together those that accepted His gift, to be in heaven with Him, and those that chose to reject Him and His gift of heaven, will be sent to the only other option, that they themselves chose, hell. God sends people where they "choose" to go. God created hell for fallen angels, not people. Unfortunately some people choose to go there. He did not create a 2nd heaven for all this that do evil, reject and hate Him.
The reason there is evil, pain and suffering in this world is because man chose sin over God. This turned everything upside down from the way God created it to be. God, being God, knew that we would do this, and still chose to make a way for us to have another chance. He allows us to see, through the thousands of years in the Old Testament in the Bible, that man could not do this on our own. That is why He came in the person of Jesus Christ, to die the death that we deserve for sinning against Him, so that we would not have to. Jesus Christ died, descended to hell, conquered the grave and death, so that we could as well. This is if we accept Him for who He is, our Lord and Savior. Yes, he knew man would kill Him, not us personally, but human kind. But, He had a plan for that as well. To turn even something like that for good, for us.
We are all born with a sin nature. Children do not need to be taught to be selfish, throw tantrums or be mean to another child. Having said this, God calls us to make a choice to choose Him, or to reject and be separated from Him. A child without the ability to understand this kind of a decision, is not going to be held responsible for that. A child under the age of accountability that dies, is really hard for us that are still in this world. Looking at it through God's eyes, these children have reached their destination that they were created for. They are in a perfect place, where this is no more pain, suffering or tears. Eternity is what God created us for ultimately not this world we are in at this time. This is where we have the opportunity to get to know God, who He is, what He is like, and make a decision of whether we want to spend eternity with Him or not.
Hope this helps with your questions and that you are having a good day.
God Bless.
Scott
That's a very good testimony video. Its incredible the mercy God has for us to put up with all our stuff when we think we have this thing called life figured out. I belong to a ministry called Bugs4Christ where we mentor to youth about how God restores our life while at the same showing them how a worn out VW can be brought back from what some might see as lost.
foamermetal That is so cool that you are using the restoration of a VW to teach a spiritual principal! Praise God for the way He uses our past and things that are of interest to us, to reach those that do not know Him. God Bless you and your ministry as you do the work He has for you!
God carries us all the days of our lives!
AMG * Amen! Thank the Lord for how much He cares for us! God Bless.
if God saved you, why didn't he just help you get home safely without crashing your pride and joy? so sick of hearing delusional people rant. you fell Alseep at the wheel man, take responsibility.
The All Night Diner The responsibility for the crash was totally all mine. I was living a partying and drinking lifestyle that led to this crash and I am not blaming anyone one else for that. Yes, God could have kept me from the crash, but I would have never seen and realized that He was real, as I did, in the crash.
God used my irresponsibility, which led to me wrecking my cool bus, and instead led me to eternal life in Jesus Christ! As much as I liked my bus, I would much rather have eternal life! The bus is a temporary thing in this short life, but eternal life is forever!
Have a good day!
hi chris ,i have read some of the comanters that peoples have left about your story ,and i can see that so few of us are truly believing , god gave the first message , part of the book of god ,human been could not understand it as it was ,they made lot s of mistakes , so god send jesus and the second part of the book witch is like the first one ,saying there is only one god , GOD the same for all of us , then juif christians were to proud to understand that it was the same message and they were brothers in faith , so god send mohamed as the last prophet with the last call for humanity . For me 95% of juif , christian muslim says that they believebut they are liers ,i was christian up the age of 15 years , god is behind every little thing , any way i m very happy for christian and you will understand more and more , real life has start for you ,enjoy life ....big hug from france
+sabri rubi fernandez The Bible is actually incredibly amazing! It was written over a period of 1500 years with 40 writers that were inspired by God to write what was written. The writers were from many different time periods, locations and cultures, but they all fit together in the perfect account of who God is, how much He loves us and his rescue plan to save us from the penalty of sin!
There is an amazing about of ancient manuscripts that we have to verify and make translations into various languages and cultures from. We have far more ancient manuscripts for the Bible than any other writing that is used today.
Unfortunately there are those that discount the Bible and claim that there are errors and contradictions in it. Every one that has been brought to my attention, that I have personally looked at, has been a matter of taking something out of context and misrepresenting a passage rather than there being a contradiction or error.
It is so awesome to know that God is God, creator of all things, and that nothing that man can do can mess up what He has taught us about Himself. Through persecution and attempts throughout thousands of years of trying to do away with the teaching of God in His word, nothing has been able to do away with it. He continues to allow us to be able to read His word for ourselves and see how much He loves each and every one of us!
God bless and hope you have a great week!
More like an adventure into tasteless microcephaly.
+Capt Larry - I love to share the stories of God's goodness to us in our lives! God loves each and every person that He has created in this world and has a perfect plan and purpose for everyone of us!
God bless and hope you have a great week!
OMG
Having gone through it myself, it stills blows me away when I re-watch and re-hear the story! I am very thankful to God!
you can't have god AND a bus.....heaven forbid
+David Flores LOL! You could, but if I had to make a choice of having my life or the bus ... :)
have it all man!
Why didn’t Jesus stop you from crashing. Why didn’t Jesus wake you up?
That is a good question and I am not even going to pretend that I know the reason why He does everything the way that He does it. He definitely could have kept me from crashing or woke me up, but I would have never known that He did something miraculous in the midst of what ended up happening. As I mentioned in the video, I saw something crazy happen, where I was so close to death, that caused me to see that He was real and that ultimately completely changed the way my life ended up going. I am very thankful for that redirection. God bless!
Couldn't of "God" maybe of helped you stay awake?
YpsiFrog Yes, He could have, but the amazing thing is that by allowing me to fall asleep He allowed me to begin waking up to the things of Him. He has totally transformed my life and way of thinking to a life that I never even knew existed! Thanks for watching and your question! Hope you are having a good day. God bless.
I'd rather have the bus
The thing is, the bus is only temporary, but the gift of God is eternal! I am very thankful for that! God bless!
jezus didnt really die when his father can make him alive every time he wants to
martinjanss janss Jesus didn't have to, He willingly did this for all of us to have the opportunity to be in relationship with God.This was God's plan to show us how much He loves us and see in a way that we could understand the kind of love He has for us. God bless.
a god who knows everything doesn t have to test people because he knows forethat what will come out
martinjanss janss It is true that God knows. The testing isn't really for Him, it's for us to see where we are at.
***** some will be killers because of bullying ; others commit suicide see RONIN SHIMIZU little boy killed by bullies
***** why does your god let people suffer from cancer THAT S MORE SUFFERING THEN ON CROSS on cross you looese bl;ood in a minute you don t feel any pain anymore CANCERPATIENTS ONLY 3 YEARS YOUNG SUFFER MORE PAIN ETC then jesus on the cross
good story... But that bus is not totaled. I could easily fix it. check out my vid channel
+miguel thepainterdude I'll have to check it out when I get a chance!