Excerpt From The Forward

Posted by winjaw on May 26, 2010 in Excerpts/Media | 0 comments

Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to be running excerpts from the book, “Everyone Needs A Sam.”

The Little Black Dress and I always seemed to attend big churches, from 3,000 members and up. The smallest we ever attended regularly had about 500 members.

One Sunday, while living in Georgia, we visited a small church – Jones Chapel. On a good day, maybe 75 people showed up. We loved the people, we loved the pastor, and we never left until the pastor – John Freeland – left to take another church.

I asked John, who is now the senior pastor at Skyland United Methodist Church in Atlanta, to write the Forward to Sam, and he graciously agreed.

Following is an excerpt from his Forward: