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I am one of Jesus’ local church pastors and this is a testimony borne out of many years of learning and helping him train his servants to go and make disciples. I hope that he will use this testimony to speak to your heart encouraging you to yield to him allowing him to disciple you and through you to go and make disciples of the lost in your family, school, workplace, community, neighborhood, nation and world.

Jesus has been personally giving me on-the –job training in gospel outreach and discipleship for many years and believe me I am still learning and growing. He has been teaching me through mistakes, blunders, correction and insights.

For those Pastors who want to be used by God in these last days for the glory of the Father.

This is a testimony of encouragement and challenge for you. I believe the Lord wants to set a spark, and blow it into a flame that will burn within us as his pastors. A fire set by God to let Jesus work his will in and through us. “He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.” Psalms 104:4

This testimony is written for the busy pastor who is on the go and may not have time to read many books. Hopefully you will catch the vision of this booklet quickly and move out with a new challenge, zeal and passion for the Lord, the saints and the lost.

This is a testimony borne out of years of pastoring and I hope it will be an encouragement to you. The lessons I have learned have been through “on-the-job” training with Jesus and believe me, I am still learning and growing. I learned a lot and am still learning through mistakes, blunders and the correction of Jesus.

I have been your fellow pastor for 36 years serving at the Grove Heights Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois as senior pastor. I have also been a part-time correctional chaplain for 22 years at the nation’s largest community correctional center for federal prisoners operated by the Salvation Army in Chicago. I have also served as a village ministry team leader in Benin West Africa for 9 years. By God’s grace I am still serving him in these three ministries.

Prior to this I was a Juvenile Court probation officer for 5 years and also served as the director of a mission in the Cabrini Green Housing Projects for 5 years. As a youth I served with a youth ministry as chaplain for 7 years and as their summer camp adult speaker for 34 years.

Beginning as a teenager I was a door to door evangelist for 12 years and developed and led teams in gospel ministry in the housing projects and other neighborhoods of Chicago. I still do door to door as a pastor. I am a biblical counselor and Christian writer of short booklets that can be quickly read. All of this has been by the grace of God. I mention this to explain where I am coming from with this testimony. I have been married for 43 years and my wife and I have four daughters, five granddaughters, three grandsons and three son-in-laws