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Q3: Hawthorne, FL (just outside of Gainesville, FL)
Q4: Senior Pastor Hawthorne First Baptist Church
Q5: widowed (Karren Claiborne McKinney- Liberty '72-77)
Q6: Joshua-24- grad. student at San Diego State
Adam-20-at Palm Beach Atlantic Univ.
Jarred-18-senior in Gainesville High School
Q7: Every thing rises and falls on leadership!
Oh fats!
My most cherished memory is Gordon loving my boys and me when Karren died.
Q8: I will always be thankful for meeting Gordon in Jersusalem while he was chasing Barry Jennings around the pool with a metal chair. My life changed forever. When Gordon asked me to be a part of the ILA team it allowed me to complete college and experience ministry in a way no class room could teach. Through the years as a youth pastor and senior pastor many of those life lessons learned while serving under Gordon's leadership have carried me through some difficult experiences. Jerry Falwell and Gordon Luff are the two men who most dramaticly impacted my life.
Q9: When Karren was diagnosed with colon cancer in Sep.2000 then dying three months later my life was forever changed. My boys were 16, 12 & 10 at the time. Gordon did a memorial service for us in CA. Upon our return my baby boy became very ill. As he was vomiting his guts out late one night he cried out,"I want my Mommy!" We all did. I became bitter at God and my situation. In May 2006 God broke my heart and I cried out in repentance for my sin against Him. I now see life with different eyes and have a softer heart for people. You never know why someone does or says what they do until you walk in their shoes.
Q10: I thank God for sending me to Liberty and then opening the doors for my involvement with Youth Aflame. I was drifting through life with no clear direction when I met Dr. Jerry Falwell and Gordon Luff in Israel. They among many other godly men and women shaped my thinking and trained me for Christian service. I think I am just now begining to understand so much of what I was taught. I am thankful for all the life long friends which were made at Liberty. For some of you, you know so little of how you have contributed to my life and have given me encouragement over the years. Just knowing you were out there and you cared made a difference in choices I made. It is wonderful to be able to unite once again in a common cause with a desire to proclaim Jesus Christ to a country and world more confussed today than in the days we were in college. Youth Aflame is needed to reach a generation that has no knowledge of God or His love. I remember the thousands to whom we ministered. Now, perhaps we can do it again...just older and wiser in what we do!
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