We only had one family car then and every day before my mother started riding MARTA, my father packed me and my brothers in the car and headed from College Park to downtown to pick her up after work. At the time, the building was located on Peachtree Street. ![]() When I was a little girl of about eight or nine years old, my mother worked for DFACS in downtown Atlanta. Stanley’s church before I encountered him. I’ve only encountered and or met very few people who strike me that way. Any desires he has had for success or security or family and other hallmarks of life on earth are only met through his faith in God and God’s will for his life. Stanley but the conviction with which he preaches which includes the intensity of his stance, his hand gestures, his choice of words and the piercing look in his eyes all communicate without question that faith is first in his life. Every thing he does is filtered through the lens of his faith. Stanley grew up without fathers but are outstanding fathers despite the odds! (Both have miraculous stories of God providing for their college education through scholarships when money was scarce during their childhood.) What I love about my father is how faith is the crux of his being. Stanley is because he reminds me of my father. If I’m being honest, a big part of why I love the ministry of Dr. As I was telling this to my mother last week, I felt the hot gathering of tears around my eyes, similarly to how I felt when my father announced that he was stepping down from his position as pastor of my home church Central Christian Church in Atlanta. In fact, next to my father, who is the pastor whose faith in God has most inspired my faith in God, Dr. ![]() Charles Stanley was stepping down as pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta after more than 50 years last Sunday, I could not write about it immediately because his ministry has blessed me so very much. What a blow…When I first read the news that Dr.
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