Faith & Purpose

Speaker 6: Welcome everyone
to Faith and Purpose podcast.

Each episode of this podcast contains the
personal testimony of an ordinary person

transformed by an extraordinary God.

My name is Kaylin and I'm
here to introduce this podcast

for my friend Jesse Duke.

Jesse is a husband, father, author,
life recovery guide, lay counselor,

and small group leader, but his
most important role is disciple.

As a disciple of Jesus.

Jesse created this podcast to help other
believers tell their faith stories.

We'll be hearing the personal
testimonies of all sorts of people

who have one thing in common,
Jesus has transformed their lives.

Jesus used parables because he created
us to learn best through story.

And as we listen to how God has worked
in others lives, we find encouragement

and inspiration for our own faith walk.

Whether you are already a believer or
just a curious seeker, we believe that

as you listen to these stories, you will
be encouraged on your own faith journey.

We are sure that God can speak to you
through one of these episodes and that you

will see that our Heavenly Father truly
works all things together for our good.

When we simply love and trust him.

If you are currently going through a
trial, we believe that you will come

to see that your troubles, heartbreaks,
and failures are not gravestones, but

stepping stones into new life in Christ.

Here's Jesse with today's guest.

Speaker: Welcome everybody
to Faith and Purpose podcast.

My name is Jesse Duke.

And today I have my longtime friend,
Jim Renfrow, to tell his story.

How you doing today, Jim?

Speaker 2: I'm doing fine,

Speaker: Well, I already know parts of
your story, but I just wanted to get it

down in audio for other people to hear.

So, I'm looking forward to it.

So, tell us, when and where you were born.

Speaker 2: I was born in 1936 in,
down between Lakeview and Nichols.

I was born at home,

1936.

Speaker: You were born in a house?

Born in a house.

And how about, brothers and sisters?

Speaker 2: I had one
brother and one sister.

My sister was 10 years older than me, and
my brother was 12 years older than me.

I was sort of like an only

Speaker: child.

So you were the baby of the family?

I

Speaker 2: was the baby of the family.

Speaker: And what was your childhood like?

Speaker 2: Well, I guess,
looking back on it, I think I

maybe was like the only child.

I might have been a little spoiled,
but, I didn't think I was at the time.

Speaker: So you were born in
Dillon County, South Carolina.

Right.

And, when I say what was your childhood
like, I mean, did you run the streets?

Did you live in the woods?

Did you grow up hunting and fishing?

What was your life?

Speaker 2: I grew up, we had a, I
lived on a tobacco farm and I worked

in tobacco when I got big enough.

About six years old, I started dragging
tobacco with a mule on a flat drag.

And I stayed in the woods fishing.

I did a lot of fishing and, didn't do much
hunting until I got up about 11 years old.

I got my first gun.

But, I stayed outside most all the time.

So

what

Speaker: was

Speaker 2: your first gun?

It was a 410 Singleboro.

Speaker: Me too.

Well, what about school?

How did that go?

Speaker 2: I started off in the first
grade in Nichols, South Carolina.

I got along pretty good.

Made fairly decent grades.

I didn't like school that
well, but I did pretty good.

with my grades and all, through the
7th grade, and, I loved baseball.

We had a baseball team in
Mecklenburg, and, I played on the

high school baseball team when I
was in the 7th grade, and, wait, you

Speaker: were in the 7th grade but
you played on the high school team?

Yeah.

So they recruited you, huh?

Speaker 2: Well, we all
practiced together and all of it.

We didn't have but one thing,
that was the high school.

We didn't have anything
to do with varsity.

You didn't

Speaker: have enough
people to have more than

Speaker 2: that.

Right.

But I moved to the Lakeview
School in the 8th grade.

And, I didn't get along good with,
under other, with the management.

I had a, Major problem
with the baseball coach.

When I first went there, I was practicing
with the team, but we had a falling out.

I never played baseball in high school,
on the high school team, or football.

I'd never even seen a football
game until I went to Lakeview.

Speaker: Wow.

so did you have any other interests in
life besides, baseball and, Fishing?

Speaker 2: Well, I got a
car when I was in 8th grade.

in order for me to go to school in
Lakeview, I either had to walk about a

little over a mile to make the bus, and
my dad brought me a 1950 Willys Jeepster,

and I drove it to school when I was in
Lakeview I enjoyed taking on cars, Before

then, I had a 32 Chevrolet stripped down,
and I used to work on it a lot, and I

learned to rebuild the engines back when
I was in the 8th and 9th grade in school.

But,

I enjoyed, I did I began the quill hunt
when I was in about the 8th grade and

9th grade, and I bought me a dog and,
Me and this friend of mine, we hunted

together in all our spare time, and
of course we fished in the spring and

summer, but when I got to Lakeview and
started, I didn't care much about school.

I cut school a lot, and I
didn't make real good grades,

and but, I've had a lot of fun.

I wasn't that bad of a dude at that

Speaker: time.

So you know this is called Faith and
Purpose Podcast, so my question is what,

what were your childhood memories like?

Were you exposed to, faith or religion

Well,

Speaker 2: from the time I was big
enough to go, went to church with my mom.

My mom was a Baptist and
my dad was a Methodist.

I went to church with my mom.

But, I never, I didn't learn much.

Probably.

Did more talking than I did listening,
but but I did go to church, maybe not

ever, but we were fairly faithful I'd say.

Maybe three out of four
Sundays we went to church.

Speaker: huh.

Speaker 2: But I didn't really care
much about, didn't really know much

about the Bible and, and, didn't really
care much about no one at the time.

I guess living out in the country and.

And working with farmhands, and
that's all I had to play with.

I lived six miles from Nichols
and six miles from Lakeview, so

I was right in the middle of it.

I had a lot of fun when I joined.

It wasn't all bad.

Speaker: So your life was
pretty much working on the farm.

Right.

Hunting, fishing, baseball, cars,
you, I get, you enjoyed cars and I

understand you raced them for a while.

Yeah, but

Speaker 2: that was later on.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker 2: But, anyway, I met my
wife when I was in the eighth grade

and, we started dating, in the
eighth grade, a little, just maybe.

I had to, I had, the only time I could
go off was one time a week, and, with

her, and, she, and then on Sunday,
I either go to WBTU on Sunday night,

Bible, whatever they want to call it,
but anyway, I either had to go to the

church with her, or I either had to stay
at home and talk with her at her house.

Speaker: huh.

Speaker 2: But, We, I think the fact
that I didn't get that I didn't play

ball much in high school I look back on
it now I've regretted it most of my life

and felt like I had, been mistreated
for not playing but, I look back on

it now as a blessing because probably

if I'd have been playing ball,
I might not have fell in love

and got married when I was 16.

Speaker: okay.

let's see, y'all met in the 8th grade.

What grade was she

Speaker 2: in?

She was in the, no, I guess
I was in the 9th grade.

She was in the 8th grade.

Speaker: Okay, so you were 16, she was 12.

Speaker 2: When we got married, she was
in the 11th grade and I had missed, I

had dropped a bunch of sub, I was in
the 11th grade too when we got married.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker 2: it was kind of a trend.

In my school at that time, there
was five couples that got married

within a two year period and, and
while in high school and Nette myself

was the first two that got married.

And then, there was four other
couples that got married.

Long back in that time.

And you couldn't go to
school if you were married.

So we got kicked out of school
when we found out we were married.

suited me too.

Speaker: How did you get married?

Did you elope?

Speaker 2: Yeah, we, Florence

was the judge of probate in Dillon, so
naturally we couldn't go there to get

married, because he wouldn't work, so
we went to Florence and, we went to the

judge of probate's office in Florence on
a Friday afternoon, before basketball.

I played basketball in high school and, we
got our marriage license and we talked to

this lady and It worked in judge's office,
and uh, she told us she would marry us

on Sunday if we'd come to her house.

She was a New Republic, but anyway,
on the way home, I was in the biggest

hurry, trying to get back in time to play
basketball, and the highway patrolman got

after me, and Florence Lee, he stopped
me about 15 miles off of that down near

the river, He asked me why, what I was
in search of her for, and I told him

My dad was in the hospital in Mullins
and I was in a hurry to get there.

And he said, who's that with you?

And I said, my sister.

Anyway, he let me go.

He said, you slow down.

He didn't charge me anything, just
didn't let me take it, let me go.

We made it back in time
for the basketball game.

Speaker: So you went to Florence to get
the marriage certificate and then you

Speaker 2: went back?

We went back on Sunday afternoon.

And, got married and then we come
home and I had to take her home that

night cause we didn't have permission
to go in the evening and the night.

but anyway, I believe it was the
following Monday we went to school.

Both of us went to school and
this man in Lakeview had, seen

in the Florence Morning News.

They used to publish the marriage license
on the paper and, he saw it and he

went to Florence Mom and told us that.

It's on that gymkit Merritt said.

I saw the Merritt glasses and she didn't
know it up to that time, I don't think.

But anyway, we went to school that
morning and the principal has come

talking to her, told me I couldn't go
to school because Merritt had to leave.

we let Merritt go.

We left together and went back to
my granny's house and got her some

clothes and then we went to my house
and started fixing us a bedroom.

boy.

That was a good time, a
good point in my life.

that's

Speaker: wonderful.

how old were both of you at that time?

Florinette

Speaker 2: was 15 and I was 16.

We got married on February the 8th, 1953.

My

first child was born, On
December the 19th, 1953.

And, Florida was still 15.

But I had a birthday on July the 4th.

she had a birthday on, October 13th.

That was before Frankie was born.

She was 16, when Frankie was born.

And I had already had one on the 4th of
July, so we were 15, we were 16 and 17.

Speaker: Now, did y'all attend
the church at that time?

Speaker 2: Lord, that went over Sunday.

I didn't go.

I didn't go to church.

We, I didn't, she went by herself,
because I didn't go anywhere.

There's a lot that happened between.

53 in 1970, and, I, I had never drank a
beer or anything until I was 21 years old.

I started sipping a little on beer,
and I never smoked a cigarette.

I'd smoked, rabbit tobacco, and I'd
roll, I had rolled me some old tobacco

that was cured in the barns, and
just, it burnt, it was awful, and I

didn't want to smoke, but anyway, I
started smoking when I was 21, too.

And I started drinking a little, and
I got, actually got a little worse.

And, back in, and into the
sixties, I started drinking a lot.

And, I, I started racing in the sixties.

And I started racing for
four, five, six, seven years.

And, just kept drinking
a little more and more.

And I got pretty bad
long in the late sixties.

And, right before, before they had
never even threatened to leave me at

no point, you know, she put up with me
that, that might have been part of my

problem, she put up with me too much.

But, anyway, I come home, it
was right, about a week, two

weeks before Thanksgiving.

I was pretty drunk and I got cutting
up and got violent and started throwing

things around and well, it kind of
first time in her life she broke down

and went and crying and I slapped her.

So the only time I'd ever touched
her, because I wasn't a, I wasn't a

wife beater, I was a whole lot worse
than a wife beater because I probably

did hurt more harm with my mouth

But anyway.

I left, and when I come back in that
night, lay down, the police locked me

up, put me in jail, and I stayed in
jail all the way through Thanksgiving.

And, when I got out of jail on
Thanksgiving for that, file for divorce,

we stayed separated

through Christmas and through, Up until

April the 7th.

I had this friend at work, that I
worked with, that had been witnessing

me for years, for 10, 15 years.

He used to go to ballgames with me and
he'd come, all the races were a race.

Anyway, He kept wanting
me to go to church.

And, of course I didn't
care nothing about church.

and, while I, while we were separated,
I got thinking, I guess the Holy Spirit

started dealing with me and I told him
one day at work, I said, next time you

see your preacher, make me a appoint with
him, all that, I'm, go talk with him.

One night

when I got home work that evening, him
and his pastor was sitting in the yard.

Well, I, I was stopped.

Thorn it, bought her a trailer and.

They were living in a mom's yard.

She had too many children
to stay in the house.

She had put copper in
her mom and dad's yard.

And, I would stop by the old, the
house we lived in before, before we got

separated was right across the road.

And I'd stop over there and the kids
would come over there and we'd talk.

And I'd talk with the kids,
play with them a while.

And then I'd go on down to my mom's.

Spend the night, but the preacher had
pulled up and admitted that the boy that

was witness to them, and we sit in the
car and talk for a long time, an hour

or two, I reckon, and I told him, I
kept telling him, I said, I know I need

to clean up and start going to church.

And he said, Jim, you
don't have to go to church.

You don't have to clean up.

You need to accept Jesus
Christ as your son.

He said, I said, I know,
but I got to keep drinking.

And he said, you don't have to quit.

I said, man, you must be crazy.

They think that I don't
have to do nothing.

He read the scripture to me.

It's, Jesus died for us
while we were yet sinners.

And he said, you don't, you
turn your life over to Jesus.

If you mean business.

He'll take the strong, direct
taste away from you, and

then you clean up after that.

But you don't have to do
it before you get saved.

So

Speaker: you just assumed
that you had to get cleaned up

before Jesus would accept you.

I felt

Speaker 2: like I definitely needed
to do different from what I was

doing before I got in and out.

I said, if that's what I got to
do, I want to do it right now.

I don't want to wait till Sunday.

I want to do it right now.

So, uh, we went, me and him and my friend
went into the camper with Floor Net.

And I got on my knees in there.

In the kitchen in that cafeteria, I
asked Jesus Christ to come into my

life and I promised him, I said, Lord,
if you'll save me, I promise I'll

serve you the rest of my life, mother.

And anyway, I meant business
with him and the girl didn't know

enough about me to know that I
didn't make that kind of promises.

So she told me after the preacher left.

And I could, we could get back together,
so I spent my first night I'd spent

with her since Full Thanksgiving.

And I was happy, and I remember,
she had devotion every night.

I used to lay in the bed sometime
in the next room drunk, half drunk,

and hearing them have devotion.

I think all that stuff like that came back
to me and people that had witnessed to

me for 20 years before then and all that.

So a lot kept coming back when I got hurt
as the Holy Spirit was dealing with me.

But anyway, I got saved
on April the 7th, 1970.

And my marriage started
working its way back together.

We got back together.

Been a lot of, good
things happen since then.

Speaker: how many children did
you have at that time in 1970?

Speaker 2: we had eight,

eight children, and when I got, after
I got saved, we had three more born.

Wow.

But, I've lived, I've had, I haven't
been good by no means, but I've lived,

I've been a happy person since the
day I got back with my wife, and

I haven't had a drink since 1970.

Speaker: So after you got saved,
did you start going to church?

Yeah,

Speaker 2: I went.

I forgot what day of the week that
was, but it was maybe Wednesday or

Thursday, but I went to church Sunday
and made a proclamation of faith.

Went up, went to the altar
and the church welcomed me.

I want, I, my throne had been a member
of the First Baptist Elected for years.

But she was willing, and we talked
about it, she was willing to go to

church with me where I wanted to go.

So we joined, I joined the church,
and then later on, we could say

later she joined the church.

All the children that were
members of the First Baptist

joined the Pioneer and Baptist.

what was the name of the church?

Pioneer and Baptist Church in Floyddale.

And that's up near Dillon.

Speaker: Oh, okay.

Speaker 2: But, anyway, a lot
of other things I could have

told, but That's the boring part.

Speaker: what has your
life been like since, 1970?

How did it change?

Speaker 2: Oh, it changed, I just, I
really don't believe I ever cared, I

look back on my life and I don't think
I cared about anybody but myself.

I love my children.

I've, I took up a lot of time
with my boys and my girls too,

but not like I should have.

But since then it's been, It's just been
a wonderful, I've had, me and my wife

have had some wonderful time together.

Me and the children have had
some wonderful time together.

it's just been a
wonderful life since 1970.

Speaker: So I know, that your whole
family would get together every

holiday, 4th of July week at Oceanau,
and then Thanksgiving and Christmas

and, So you have, all of your children
are very close to you and Florinette.

Of course, tell us about Florinette.

What, how did, How did
she influence your life?

Speaker 2: She probably had more
influence, I think she had more influence

on my life than any other one person.

Because she, when I was drinking,
I tried my best to get her to

ride around with me and drink.

She would never take a drop,
drink a drop of anything.

And when I was drinking,
she wouldn't ride with me.

And, she was just a, she spent most of
her life, Doing things for other people.

And, she did a lot for me too.

But she, She loved the Lord.

And she, She taught a Sunday
school class for years.

But she worked in the Christ Church.

Three different churches.

But she just, she enjoyed
doing things for other people.

And she did a lot for other people.

Not to have a lot of income and
a lot of money, but she made do.

Speaker: tell us about your children.

Start with the oldest.

My oldest

Speaker 2: daughter was Frankie.

She was born on December the 1953
and, she's my next oldest son was

Jamie, he was born two years later.

He was born on April Fool's Day.

And, But, when they were in
school and all, they went on

mission trips in the summer.

They spent two summers on an island
called San Andres Island in South America.

Columbia, South America.

And, but, Frankie Went to college,
graduated there, and then she went

to seminary in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

That's where she met her husband,
in the seminary in Dallas, Texas.

And, Jamie my oldest boy,
he went to West Point.

in 73.

they graduated in 77, and my
next oldest was a boy Steve.

And he went to West
Point in, 77, I believe.

No, that would be right.

He was, maybe he graduated in
79, so he went four, seven.

He went from 55,

Speaker: Uhhuh,

.
Speaker 2: But then he married a, he
met a girl in, When he was at West

Portland, and he got married right after
he got out of, graduated from college.

And then my next oldest boy was, William.

he went to Clemson then.

And, he got married right
after he got out of college.

And, the next lady was,

I guess Lisa.

My daughter Lisa.

And she graduated from Winthrop and
went to medical, went to, medical

school and she's a registered nurse.

She got married, I don't
remember what year it was.

She lived with her husband.

They had three children,
three wonderful children.

And they got a divorce.

Next child was Timmy.

And, he went to Watford College
on a football scholarship.

And Beth was Dex, and and then
Claire, she, she got married, and

she got a bunch of children, anyway.

the three children that were born
after I got saved was Samantha,

and Benji, and Kyle, all three of
them got married after I got saved.

We just had a wonderful
time with children.

I got 11 wonderful children and
every one of them were Christians.

And, and, they, they just,
they've never disappointed me.

They've been, they're wonderful children.

My, my girls look after me now.

I'm too old to look after myself.

Beth, my daughter Beth
cooks for me every day.

Every evening, and Sam comes by every day
to sit, and she does a lot for me, too.

But they all the girls, Frankie
visits me about every week.

And Lisa does, too.

They all, they just all look up.

I get attended to well.

My, my wife, Thornette,
died two years ago, in June.

And, I've really, I've, I've missed her.

I don't, I just can't get, I
don't want to get over it, but.

I can't wait to see her one day in heaven.

Speaker: Well, We have that hope in Christ
that we will see our loved ones again.

Right.

Right I just want to ask you,

I'm looking from the outside and I'm
seeing you got married when you were 16.

Flornette was 15.

Right.

So y'all never graduated from high school.

Speaker 2: Right.

Flornette went to, we both
went to, School in Florida.

Got her GED and went
on to went to college.

Francis Mary.

Speaker: Oh,

Speaker 2: okay.

The night I was supposed to take
my test to graduate from the GED,

I was drinking and I didn't go.

Okay.

I said, forget it.

Speaker: but now you got 11, all of
those children have college educations.

How do you think that happened?

Speaker 2: They were just smarter than me.

They weren't wild like I was.

Thank the Lord.

Praise the Lord for that.

Speaker: I just, I think it's remarkable,
all 11 of your children are believers

and they graduated from college.

They have successful careers and families.

Wonderful families, and so how
many grandchildren do you have?

We got

Speaker 2: 48 grandchildren, and
Counting the grandchildren and the great

grandchildren, we got 107 right now.

Speaker: as we're recording
this is Christmas Eve 2024.

So you, you're just blessed
to have this big family and,

I can, I just want to say, looking
from the outside, I can see how it

wasn't you that did all this, you
attributed it all to, to God, to Jesus.

The floor net that, you have all
these children, grandchildren, great

grandchildren, they're all doing well.

it's just like your whole life has
been, led by God, by the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 2: Well, if there's any
credit to be given to my children, my

family, you can give it all to Floor
Net because She raised them up there.

Yeah.

All to go.

We, I never, my, none of my
children, all of them never got

up on Sunday morning to see 'em.

We were going go to church.

they just got up and started dressed.

They knew ever wanted to church.

Yeah.

And they wanted to go to church.

They learned to love to go to church.

It wasn't like they were forced to go.

Yeah.

But she just lived a life
around them and 10 treated them.

she's a wonderful lady.

Ain't many people that raise children
over there, and she could do it.

She raised them up in the Lord's
house, and she read scripture to

them every day, and every night,
on a devotion, and she'd look.

If there's any credit to be given, Give
it all to her because she deserves it.

I don't deserve any of

Speaker 3: it.

Speaker: Well, you probably
did a lot more than than you'll

admit to after you got saved.

But let me ask you, now in 2024,
You're still living between

Lakeview and Dillon, South Carolina.

What do you,

what kind of advice would you
have for young people today?

Anybody who, might be
off track like you were?

Speaker 2: it's, if, I think if a person
could just realize that you don't have to.

Clean up your life.

You can't clean up your life.

You got to turn it over to Jesus
Christ and he'll clean it up.

And Jesus Christ made this
ultimate sacrifice for us.

And he died for our sins and you don't
have to, all you gotta do is it is,

turn your life over to him and ask him
to come into your life and save you.

And things things will begin to
change and it'll be different.

And, and there's nobody done enough
bad that they can't be saved.

Yes, it is.

Sometimes it's, if you got an
addiction, it is hard to, you have

to fight it yourself some, but the
Lord will take it away from you.

Speaker: So he took it away from you.

that reminds me of 2 Corinthians 5.

17 where it says that when we receive
Christ, we become new creatures.

He makes us new.

It's not like we have to get.

We

Speaker 2: don't

Speaker: do a

Speaker 2: thing for ourselves.

It's all Jesus.

Speaker: Yeah.

So it starts with just trusting Him.

Right.

Yeah.

that's the best advice I
think anybody could hear.

Well, is there anything else you
want to add before we wrap things

Speaker 2: up?

That's just a kind of overview of my life.

I, I just thank the Lord for saving me.

I can't wait to get home.

Go to heaven and see my wife.

Speaker: Yeah.

that's going to be great.

That's

Speaker 2: what I think
about in the morning.

Yeah.

Speaker: So you've been without
her for two years and, you're just

looking forward to seeing her again.

Well, you're not, you're not
just sitting around waiting.

You're doing things.

You still go on to your, to church and,
fellowshipping and being with your family.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

I'm involved in a good church.

First Baptist in Dillon.

I'm still enjoying going to church,
getting a good Sunday school class.

I've been on the Deacon Board
several times but I haven't

I'm not on that anymore.

I'm too old to be anything
that, but a nuisance.

Speaker: But you still get out and hunt
and you still do things around the house.

You still keep yourself pretty busy.

Speaker 2: That's, I can
eat as good as I ever could.

Speaker: Still eating good.

Speaker 2: That's about the whole thing.

Speaker: Well, would you mind praying
for our listeners before we wrap things

Speaker 2: up?

Father, thank you so
much for this day, Lord.

Just thank you for all
you've done for us, Lord.

Thank you for it.

This time of the year we thank you for
Jesus Christ and what he did for us.

We thank you that he had to come as a
babe before he could come as a savior.

Lord, we just for this.

My prayer for everybody, for
people that unloaded and up saved

and Turn your life over to Jesus.

Just ask Him to come into your heart.

And He'll, if you mean business,
and ask Him to come into your

life and save you, He'll do it.

If you'll promise to live for
Him the rest of your life.

Thank you so much, Lord, for saving me.

Thank you for the wonderful life
I've lived, that you've given me.

I didn't do anything.

The life you've given me, and thank
you for the wonderful wife I had, and

thank you for giving me the shorts, and
I know I'm gonna see her again one day.

In Jesus name, amen.

Amen.

Speaker 7: We hope you've
been blessed by today's story.

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It may encourage them to tell their story.

That person may even be you.

Our only criteria is
that Jesus be glorified.

Most Christians don't share their
faith because they mistakenly think

their story is not interesting enough,
or that it's self centered to talk

about themselves, or that they are not
competent to explain the gospel correctly.

But none of that is relevant.

If Jesus has changed your
life, you have a story to tell.

All of our stories are completely unique.

No one has a story like yours, and you
may be the only one who can reach someone

else through telling your experience.

So don't be intimidated.

A story is just that, a true account
of your own experience, and no one

can disagree with your experience.

When we tell what Jesus has done in
our lives, we are being obedient to his

command to go into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature.

It's not about theology, and it's not
about how interesting or special you are.

It's all about Jesus.

So when you're ready to tell how Jesus
has impacted your life, you can let Jesse

know at his ministry website, jesseduke.

net.

There you can download guidelines
that will make it easy to

prepare to tell your story.

Thank you for listening today and Shalom.