My head in the jaws of a mountain lion.

"It launched with force. It slammed into my chest. The top claws, the front claws were all up by my face and by my neck.......... I was twenty four years old. I didn’t want to die."

Shacked up at 14, but now we lead marriage classes.

"I was raised in the church. But through my teenage years, I got a little wild and did things I shouldn’t have done."

Illiterate, lived in a shack, but still found success.

I was illiterate. I couldn’t read until the seventh grade. I had a speech impediment. I was mocked through school. I wore hand-me-down clothes. But in the seventh grade .....

Reach the world

Volcano erupted as we prayed by the crater.

These rocks that fell on us, some of the rocks were about the size of my fist. Some of the rocks were the size of a bowling ball. They began to pelt us. ...