Kevin Ryan was about 120 in the world in the world tennis profession. He was a professional of sorts. He was the highest ranked tennis player I’d ever met. I never saw him play, but understood him to be good. He was nice looking, curly hair and a bit shorter than me. He was smaller. [...]
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Alethea was the oldest daughter of Hector and Alma Henriquez. I really liked her. She blew me away with her personality and life. I had never met anyone quite like her. I was a very lonely man and she was a young lady full of life. She was cute, sassy and lots of fun to [...]
The first time I met Hector Henriquez was our first Sunday morning at the church meeting. I went through the door and met him quickly thereafter. He is Puerto Rican. He was raised hard. He was a bum of sorts hooked on crack and probably a few other things. His story was very similar to [...]
Without question some of the most gracious people I have ever met in my life were in NY. One time we stayed with Vivian Williams in Flushing. We arrived at her very small apartment. She was a short ½ black, ½ white lady about 40 years old, maybe 35. She had a son named Vinny. [...]
It was surreal. I engaged God. I felt like one very large hypocrite. I felt like I had never known God. God was different in New York. I was learning him all over again. When God said he loved the world I then realized the world was not all white and starchy with lots of [...]
The Bowery Mission is on the lower eastside of Manhattan. It is near the World Trade Center. I don’t know how close it was to the WTC and if it is in existence today. This is the Mission where Fanny Crosby supposedly played for a portion of her career. I think she had a ministry [...]
We were standing outside a restaurant early one evening looking for a place to eat. I went to NY thinking that I was going to eat some authentic food from many different cultures. Boy, was I in for a shock. We were standing in front of this restaurant and the only question that seemed to [...]
I fell in love with New York City. I felt as though I belonged there. It was my place. I was in love immediately. It was a full sensory experience. My expectations were immediately altered. I went in thinking one thing and was nearly catapulted to another way of thinking. The people were not mean. [...]
David, myself and about 6 other guys went on that first NYC mission trip. I don’t remember the other guys altogether. It was Shannon Harrell. I think Jess Revis went with us as well. There were some other guys, but I can’t remember at this time. We drove a couple of cars if I remember [...]
Somehow the Assistant to the Dean of the Bible College David Roth got in contact with a pastor in New York named Paul McCardel. His son Bruce was the assistant pastor of All Nations Bible Baptist Church in Queens, NY. Paul was from Florida I think and he moved to NY to pastor. His son [...]
