Matthew 28:18-20
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The Beginning
I should have been gone along time ago as little boy that did not know my real father although I had step father for a moment.
I can remember at the age 7 there was a major disconnection between my stepfather and I in which he started whipping me with a drop cord. I started running away from home and as soon the police would bring back I would run away again.
I was running away from home during the time of Atlanta Abduction of children being being killed and kidnapped. This was two hours from where I lived which was in Greenville S.C., by time I was 9 years old my stepfather was lock up and out the house, however I still kept running away from home.
My mother couldn’t do anything with me she would send the school but I wouldn’t go. I got expose to drugs and alcohol but never did any of it. I got involved in gang at that early age and started having sex way before I really knew what I was doing.
I know what it was to be locked up I was more of a risk of someone hurting me then me hurting someone. I was in out of foster homes because I would run away from there as well.
I would run away for weeks at time and I would Panhandle and ask people for money and when they would catch me always had new clothes and a pocket full of money.
I knew God had his hands on me but I really didn’t really have a relationship with God because I really didn’t go to church at that time of of my life. I can remember something went down between me and another gang I was inside of course with ladies.
I really didn’t do much fighting because I was so small and very young and shouldn’t have been even allowed to be in the club knowing I was a minor however being in the gang had its perks as well as this downfall.
That night I witness one of the gang members who I was really close with get stabbed in the chest and that was the turning point of my life of running away from home and in the streets.
That was first time I ran back home, I got home about 3:00 am in the morning by time I’m 11 years old going on 12.
My mother ask me a pivotal question “how you are going to spend the rest of your life”. I went back out the house around 3:30am I went on the next street over and I asked God to take my life I didn’t want to live anymore.
I laid in the middle street excepting him to do it however that night I stayed at home. I got up and went back in the house and went to sleep. when I woke up I truly believed that God spoke to me because I told my mother that I had to leave that environment and home where all I knew and was familiar with.
I called my social worker Mr. John Griffin and asked to go to boys home which was 5 hours away from Greenville S.C. it was called Tara hall home for boys in Georgetown S.C. my mother really didn’t want me to go but she knew that was the best thing for me.
I stayed there from age 12 to about 19 years of age. Although I asked to go I was a very angry when I went there because I wanted a change in my life. The second day there I got in a fight and front that point on I stayed in trouble.
A New Life
However, I got caught back up in school and started learning discipline. I set goals for myself and was determined that I wanted to make something out of myself.
Guess what God did? God gave me a chance to move back home to Greenville South Carolina and the opportunity to work for the Department of Social Service and to be able to give back to the community and to speak into different high schools.
And I began to work with boys in the community that no one wanted to deal with. wanted to work with or deal with and I started organization in my early twenties called Brothers of the Future which is still a Ministry to this day at the rivers of life Outreach Ministries under care of late Bishop Ernest Myers.
He was truly like a father and mentor and friend to me. Then I relocated here to Baltimore and God laid on my heart to start a Ministry called call (EMOG)which stands for Extraordinary men of God.
I was in church but really couldn’t communicate with problems that I was having that was effective me Spiritually and naturally. I knew if I had that problem other men had to be dealing with the same things as well
This when gave (EMOG) Iron sharpen Iron. Evaluate, motivate, opposed negative thoughts, Generate there way of thinking .
Teach men to be men naturally and spiritually a place where they leave their titles at the door, we keep it real and everything that we discuss stays confidential or within the group.
It started in my basement in 1999, from there to Randallstown, to 8204 Lincoln Drive, the Marriott in Hanover Maryland back to 8204 Lincoln Drive and and since the pandemic (EMOG) is now (EMOGI)
WE ARE IN Pakistan, Malaysia ,India ,Africa and in the Philippines. We have international conference call every Saturday 4:05 -5:05 and every 3rd Monday is the men’s conference call from 7:30pm until 9pm and 4th Monday is the Men and women conference 6:30pm until 8:30pm where drop our titles and allow the Holy Spirit to supersede the flow.
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