Book Summary

Infrequently, a compelling, heart-warming human interest story such as this one surfaces. This unique story contains a rich panorama of genealogy and history with a close-up perspective of an individual conversion to Christianity and subsequent evangelistic ministry. The Christian biography of Jack Ray Griffin inspires the emotion and spirit by revealing an unstoppable dedication to Jesus Christ and the preaching of the Gospel. With the help of Silas Griffin, the rest of the story has been told through the author's own words and it is yours to laugh and cry with. A gripping family adventure, a fine spiritual odyssey, this is the book to read from cover to cover more than once. Contains over 40- photos, artist's renditions, documents, and transcribed primary source material from the hand-written Journal of Rev. Thomas Griffin, a Methodist Saddlebags Preacher in the early Louisiana and Mississippi Territories in whose memory this book is dedicated.

Author Profile

Jack Ray Griffin was born December 24, 1914, near Grove Hill, AL. He transitioned from Alabama to the Mississippi Delta, through the Great Depression and Prohibition era in Chicago, to Florida. After marriage, Jack enlisted in the 9th US Army Air Force in WW 2 becoming a respected veteran after a tour of duty in England and France. Christian conversion was followed by theological study, inter-denominational fellowship, street and tent evangelism to mainstream audiences in the South, Native Americans in Florida, the Carolinas, and in 1958, a mission trip to Cuba. The unanticipated consequence of following the footsteps of Jesus Christ was committal to the Florida State Hospital. Jack Griffin became a survivor along with Phillip Cooper, Kenneth Donaldson, and Chris Calhoun. Mr. Cooper disappeared, Mr. Donaldson wrote his book, Mr. Calhoun’s story became a movie and Jack served as a pioneer evangelist in foreign missions for almost a half-century. www.mynewlife.info

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