As a young lad my dreams were to have a large family to enjoy and a home. This dream was being fulfilled with four children and one on the way when due to a corrupt and sinful life that I had been living, my marriage was suddenly shattered. I left home leaving my family no security, my wife pregnant with the fifth child, and the rent about three or four months behind. I had tried to make my marriage work but I just couldn't.

Upon leaving, I indulged more than ever in sin and even began living with another woman and drinking very heavily in order to try to live with myself. It was during this time that our first-born child, Anthony, came to spend some timy with me. During his stay, I sent him to Camp Bennett through the Central Union Mission. The year was 1976. Upon his return home, he said that the had got saved, which meant nothing to me at the time. But I do remember that my life became even more miserable after his return.

About two years later, I learned that Jesus Christ would save me and give me a new life, and Jesus did save me. Very shortly thereafter, the Lord put my family back together after four years of seperation and I shall never forget the words, "This is what I've been praying for," that our son Anthony spoke as I entered the door to where my family was living.

It finally dawned on me that God heard the prayer of a nine-year-old boy who had prayed for two years that God would bring his father back home. Therefore, I shall ever be grateful to the Central Union Mission and Camp Bennett.

I shared the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ with my wife and children and brothers and sisters and they all got saved. Also some of my relatives got saved and many others have come to know Christ as their Lord and Savior through the cab ministry that God gave me, and I attribute it all to the prayers of our nine-year-old son . God took Anthony at the age of 16, but it is comforting to know that we all shall be together again in heaven where my dreams shall at last be complete.