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These ARE My Church Clothes - Church Planting In The Appalachia (Paperback)
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These ARE My Church Clothes - Church Planting In The Appalachia (Paperback)
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Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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Set in the heart of Appalachia, where his stories about shootings,
baptizing in icy creek waters during a snow storm, people living in
an old school bus with no electric, a drunken hero God used to save
the preacher's own family from the unthinkable and even the best
way to eat the head of a squirrel-Jerry Rice, in his own special
southern vernacular, takes us on a journey with him deep into the
mountains of Clay County, Kentucky. It is here we discover how he
went from being a wheeling-dealing factory worker who would sell
"chances" on a knife, then buy the same knife back and make money
on it all over again-to becoming a born again Christian. After
leaving his drinking, fun-seeking and anger filled life behind,
Rice answered the call God placed on him to go and minister to the
low-income families in Panco-a town where some would rally to help
build a youth center and where some would bring shot-guns to a
ballgame. Rice's stay here would prove to be a rough and
challenging experience but one that was blessed. Learn how (in
these backwoods where the unemployment rate was sometimes as high
as 65%) God used the willingness of one dedicated man and his wife
to change the lives of those around them with the message of Jesus.
With every nail he hammered and every mile he drove in the church
van to pick up the youth-every time they opened their home to their
community and with every meal they served-Jerry and his wife,
Brenda worked hard as they gave of themselves with the goal of
making life better for the citizens of Panco. See the myriad of
pictures that chronicles their work and lives-from the small church
they started with, to building a full court gymnasium for a youth
center, running ball leagues and even building a company from the
ground up that served as a place of employment for some of the
people in the area for fifteen years. Jerry Rice is not a "man of
letters" nor does the country-drawling, people-loving preacher from
the Appalachia dip his pen into the same inkwell of the great
writers of our time but the sheer "story" of what he and his faith
in God were able to accomplish makes for fascinating and
soul-stirring reading. This account of Brother Rice's life is a
faith builder and may speak more deeply to your heart than many
other volumes of eloquent theological prose as it tells the very
real story of what God can do with the life of one wise man who
simply dared to trust in Him. Christian Author Regina Russell
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