These losers and vagrants and misfits of all sorts lived together in fellowship at Rooms of Grace, and Jay Turner became their leader. He helped them with recovery, led them in Bible Studies, and helped them find jobs and get vehicles. Jay hosted a fellowship dinner on Thursday nights, and started doing church services on the second Saturday night of every other month. The inaugural service was August 9. We had a baptism in a horse trough, under a carport during a heavy rain.

My friend is emancipated-- liberated of the veil of human flesh and suffering and now gets to know God face-to-face.

The big picture is that my mission is the same as that of every other believer- to Love God, and to make him known.

Pastor Jamie completed his mission with excellence, and so he got to go home early.