To Dance with the Devil's Daughter: God's Restoration of the Rev. Grady Caldwell (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"From inside the house the young boy looked out the back window and saw smoke rising into the night sky. He was not scared, but others in that house were. There was good reason to be scared. The smoke came from a field behind the house at 914 Cedar Avenue in Albany, Georgia, where a large wooden cross had been set ablaze by the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist organization. Their faces were not visible, but their hatred was. These were terrorists." So begins the first chapter of To Dance with the Devil's Daughter: God's Restoration of the Rev. Grady Caldwell. "The Story of Grady Lee Caldwell, Jr. is revealed with remarkable candor in this inspiring book. From a young boy growing up in Albany, Georgia, during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, to remarkable leadership as the first African American football player at Albany High School, and one of only three in the state of Georgia. Grady's story will touch your heart." Dr. J. Robert White, Executive Director of the Georgia Baptist Convention To Dance with the Devil's Daughter is a powerful and inspirational story about the Rev. Grady Caldwell who was addicted to drugs - and in and out of jail and prison - for almost twenty years. Grady was a young man of much promise having meant Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was mentored by other civil rights leaders in the 1960s. Grady's restoration came because of the love, faith, and devotion from his wife Kathleen. And because, as Grady says, "...I always believed in God but never really had the need to call on Him for myself until I realized I was addicted to drugs and I could not stop on my own. I had to go from a place of promise, to the problem of addiction and all of its negative consequences including prison, before totally committing myself to His purpose for me - pastoring." Today Grady is senior pastor at New Mercy Baptist Church in Griffin, Georgia.