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Growing up Pentecostal: Foreword
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My Spiritual Beginnings in a Family of Fourteen. Thursday, October 15, 2009. Our Family in 1956 - Ten Children and Two More on the Way. When I was a teenage evangelist, traveling and preaching in the Church of God, people seemed to enjoy hearing my childhood stories more than they did my sermons. I traveled during weekends, school breaks, and summer vacations to churches over much of the United States, from South Dakota to South Carolina, and from Washington State to Washington, D.C. In Cleveland I atten...
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Growing up Pentecostal: Chapter 1: Born Again
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My Spiritual Beginnings in a Family of Fourteen. Saturday, January 24, 2009. Chapter 1: Born Again. First grade was the watershed year of my life, and a rainy afternoon in April, 1952, was the divide. All the seven years and three months I had lived before that turning point, I had been a horrible sinner. But then, I was born again. It happened when my brother Paul and I found ourselves locked up all alone in the Cleveland, Tennessee, National Guard Armory. Finding our way back to the front lobby, we sat...
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County Counting: 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007
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Visiting each of the 3,142 Counties in the United States at least Once in My Lifetime. Sunday, July 29, 2007. Discovering America County by County. Editor Bruce Farrin at the Rumford Falls Times. He interviewed me, and his article appeared in the local newspaper. Here it is:. DISCOVERING AMERICA COUNTY BY COUNTY. RUMFORD - Particularly during the summer months, many interesting people from all over the world travel through Rumford. Last week, one of them was J. Stephen Conn of Loveland, OH. Conn, a freel...
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County Counting
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Visiting each of the 3,142 Counties in the United States at least Once in My Lifetime. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Entering Wahkiakum County, Washington. The finish line is almost in sight. With the two new counties I collected yesterday, Wahkiakum and Grays Harbor in Washington, my grand total now stands at 3,105 counties, with only 37 to go. A couple of those we hope to get today, along with Olympic National Park. So great youve almost made it! July 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM. July 17, 2013 at 10:09 AM. Dave Sch...
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County Counting: 03/01/2007 - 04/01/2007
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Visiting each of the 3,142 Counties in the United States at least Once in My Lifetime. Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Seeing ALL of America. I must concede that my ultimate travel fantasy would be to visit every country on earth, and I have been privileged to travel to about 45 of them. However, to get to every spot on this planet is simply beyond the means and ability of most everyone - including myself. Oh," he replied with a confident air, "I saw all of it! Did you ever get outside of the inner cities?
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County Counting: 05/01/2007 - 06/01/2007
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Visiting each of the 3,142 Counties in the United States at least Once in My Lifetime. Wednesday, May 30, 2007. More News about County Collector Margaret Gates. Yesterday I posted an article from. About Margaret Gates, who had just completed her lifelong goal of visiting every county in the United States. In an email from Jessica Grant, the writer for that article, I learned that there had been an earlier piece about the same woman, when she still had 18 counties to go on her quest. Here it is:. Dad was ...
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County Counting: 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007
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Visiting each of the 3,142 Counties in the United States at least Once in My Lifetime. Thursday, June 21, 2007. Amazing Adventures in Podunk, U.S.A. Teapot Water Tower, Lindstrom, Minnesota. I have recently returned from a 9 day road trip to meet my wife Karen in Minneapolis for a romantic weekend. She flew to Minnesota on business. Since I am recently retired and have more time than Karen, I drove out to meet her. The National Hobo Museum and Home of the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. Also I s...
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County Counting: Wrapping up the Pacific Northwest
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Visiting each of the 3,142 Counties in the United States at least Once in My Lifetime. Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Wrapping up the Pacific Northwest. Entering Astotin County, Washington from Wallowa County, Oregon on OR-3 and WA-129. This post is being written from the Travelodge in Newburg, Yamhill County, Oregon, my last county in the Pacific northwest. Yamhill is the 22nd and final county of my current 10-day road trip around the states of Washington and Oregon, completing both states. Pikeville, Tennes...
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County Counting: 04/01/2009 - 05/01/2009
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Visiting each of the 3,142 Counties in the United States at least Once in My Lifetime. Thursday, April 16, 2009. 4,000 MIles and 90 Counties Across Texas. During two weeks in late February and early March, 2009, I put more than four thousand miles on this car, rented at the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas airport. On that trip, which took me on a very zig-zag route around the state, I completed visiting my final 90 of the 254 counties in the Lone Star State, and also completed several counties in Oklahoma.
