History Of The Ministry
A few months later the Spirit told me that we needed to move to a bigger home. This I could not understand. We could hardly make it where we were. Besides, who would rent to a little ministry that had nothing? But when the Spirit says to do something, I do it. My mom and I went looking for a place and found a mountain cabin in Arrow Bear, about 20 minutes from Big Bear Lake.
It was nice having a larger place. It was here the Spirit of God returned, dictating and directing volume two of "Change Your Life Biblically". Again, it was accomplished in about one week.
The requests for the book began to arrive in ever larger numbers. I was amazed at how inmates from all over the country learned about this little book. Requests were coming in from inmates from every state in the Union. After being in our mountain home for about a year, the Spirit instructed me that it was time to move again.
I was disappointed at this. I liked the mountain home. I was not looking forward to having to move all the equipment. However, we did find a little home for rent in Yucaipa, California. This was nice in that it was close to my parents who were in their early 80’s. They loved the work I was doing and helped out as much as possible. After moving in the Holy Spirit was sent to me again and He dictated and directed volume III.
During this time of the ministry I was printing, collating, folding and binding the books by hand. The work was beginning to take more time than I had all by myself. One day I received a letter from a young man in Youth Authority by the name of Jeff who had read volumes I & II.
After several letters and getting to know each other, he asked if he could come to the ministry upon his release from Y/A. He explained to me that he had no family and no place to go. I thought it over and decided that God must be providing the help that I needed. I invited him to come.
When he arrived, at the age of 18, we began organizing the ministry into a "two-man" operation. We had a large table in the middle of the room with lines and lines of shelving around the room. The pages were printed on our copier and then we would run around the table collating them. I had purchased a folder which made the work a bit easier.
Jeff made a commitment to make the ministry his life. Fortunately for him, he did not realize that God would hold him to his commitment. Jeff was given up by his mom into the California foster care system at the age of seven. He lived in group homes and Y/A all his childhood life. Living at the ministry was so different that he was not able to control himself to stay.
Over time he would run away and them come back when he had no place to go. Then he ran away and got into trouble with the Law. I went before the judge and Jeff was placed in my custody.
Another inmate, Juan, who had read the book, contacted me. He also was a God-sent. He could read, write and speak Spanish and English. When he was released he began translating the book into Spanish for the ministry. Over the years we have learned that those who are involved with this little ministry are truly blessed.