From Rags to Righteousness is the true life story of one young preacher and his family's desperate struggles to obey and serve the Lord. Their first of many betrayals came when their home church pastor sent the young family off to Bible school with promises and lies. You will read of their struggles to keep shelter over their heads and food on their table. And how, by modern-day miracles, the Lord provided their daily needs day by day. The sins of the author are not hidden from the reader. As the miracles are provided and victories, the preacher turns back to his old life. He takes you with him into the darkness of wasted years. You watch his fall and the depth of it. You cheer and laugh at the way the Lord brings him to repentance and back into the holy calling of the Lord. When the Shipmans invited a stranded twenty-year-old woman with a nine-month-old baby into their home, their lives changed forever. Within these pages, you will find the gripping account of this family's unselfish rescues of homeless women and their children. You also read of the wolves in sheep's clothing and their opposition and their determination to fight against this preacher tooth and nail! You will be shocked by the well-known pastors who, motivated by jealousy and envy, stood against this ministry. You will see how the betrayal, deceptions, and revenge try to destroy the family and the mission it represents. You will read how one of America's first and most powerful megachurch became involved with disbelief. You will wonder at the rich and powerful foundations, two of Chattanooga's chief of police, and prominent civic leaders, and for good measure, an assortment of mentally ill come together in a garbled maze with the motive of bringing about the downfall of one preacher!
At the age of seventeen and three weeks, Don Michael “Mike” marries his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Michelle, in a shotgun wedding. Being a high-school dropout, Mike struggles with his role as the sole provider, and his relationship with Michelle deteriorates. They divorce after seven years of marriage. Mike moves to Houston from Fort Worth, Texas, and after five years’ experience in the glass business, he makes a living as a glazier. Dissatisfied with his construction job, however, he eventually moves back to Forth Worth where he becomes a taxi driver for the Fort Worth Yellow Cab Company and encounters characters of all sorts on the job. One fateful July day, he takes a call on the two-way radio to pick up two men, Donnie and Lefty, on HEB Boulevard. Soon after, Mike’s life takes a tumultuous turn as he inadvertently becomes caught up in one of the most highly publicized FBI-Mafia sting operations.
Dedicated to everyone who has ever asked where the road will take them and then taken that first step towards the unknown. However, it takes an extremely strong person armed with a sense of humor to laugh at adversity and challenge. So now I have described the "Diana" series in totality: one is the writer and the other is the reader. Just remember to keep the dreams alive and let no one put them aside, they are way too important.
I truly thought my reports and journals might be of interest to GM to be used as a training tool for new officers. But the idea was rejected due to security personnel being hired by outside agencies. So I put it in book form. Some will find it degrading and others may find it interesting. Most have no idea what takes place in a manufacturing plant, (up to now). Whichever, category you fall into I'm sure you'll feel you got your money's worth." Enjoy, Don Montie
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