Most testimonies are the story of one life turning. This one is the story of four generations of a family that would not stop reaching for the next one.

This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a man whose ministry has now spanned fifty years — and every one of those years traces back to a brush arbor meeting in a field in Indiana almost a hundred years ago. Two great-grandmothers who came home full of the Holy Ghost. A grandfather who built a church in his own garage. A mother who prayed for a hardheaded son for twelve years — and then, when that prayer did not bring him home, quietly began praying for a wife who would.

Hers is not the only prayer God answered.

What follows is a life shaped by everyone who bothered to build a relationship with a man who did not yet know he needed one — a pastor who asked one honest question at a peeling-paint door, a congregation that made a stranger feel like a son, a bus route he ran the first weekend after he received the Holy Ghost, and a Bible study his wife started with a sixteen-year-old girl who answered the door with a toddler in diapers on her hip.

The toddler grew up.

He is pastoring a church of his own now.

And the man who was once the hardheaded son, at seventy-seven, is still the first one at the door of the sanctuary he serves — greeting strangers the way strangers once greeted him.

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The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV.

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