Did you go to an IFB college after Hephzibah House? (or BJU?)
No I didn’t go to college Bass, at least not then. I was sent to HH at the end of my 9th grade year at BJA. I always struggled academically and had failed two grades already. HH did not help this. By the time I got home I was so behind it was ridiculous. There was talk about having me go back to BJU, but I flat out refused. My sanity couldn't take it. My mom said that it was either BJ or a GED. She was right though. I couldn’t just sit there and do nothing.
I was dumb as a rock, but Bob Jones was not an option I was willing to tolerate. In a state of almost sheer desperation, I studied at home and at the library for about 4-6 months and then I went and took the GED. I passed in the top tenth percentile that year and still do not understand how I did so well. It was a miracle that I ever made through the testing day actually. There were so many people there and I was fresh out of HH. I felt like a freak and kept having panic attacks. I finished all my tests very early, so as soon as I was done, I would run out of the building, smoke a cigarette, which seemed to calm me and then run back in again.
So no, I didn’t go to college at that time. There was no way I could have tolerated going to college at that point in my life anyway. As it is, I still tend to panic around large groups of people. I have however, managed to take a few college courses at the local technical college over the years and then when online courses became available I took more, usually in English or creative writing.
Thank you for filling me in. I don't blame you for not going (and given the quality of education at IFB colleges, you didn't miss anything). I was thinking that because you had commented on the accuracy of SECRET RADIO, that you had attended an IFB college.
Okay I’m hooked. What’s up with Lilly? Is she really 18? BTW, the description of the bus ministry was so dead on my skin crawled from the memories! Its all about the numbers, no actual souls need apply! lol
Did your former church in Greer SC have a bus ministry?
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Yes it did. Our Saturdays were filled with going door to door convincing parents to let their kids go to church the next day. The parents just wanted the kids out of the house for a day. We wanted their soul, for a prize. There was a chart that counted the number of souls led to the lord. Later when people witnessed to me I would see that chart hanging on the wall in the youth group class and imagine myself on there as a number among many numbers. No worth, just a number.
__________________ Me at Hephzibah House in 1992 holding in my hands my most precious possession at the time.
I've been following the podcasts since the Secret Radio dramas started. I grew up in a Hyles grad church so I have laughed and nodded my way through the stories. I know exactly where you are coming from.
Also, I usually laugh at the ridiculous preaching from preachers in those circles, but the clip from Jeff Owens (Foghorn Leghorn) was just disturbing. That poor boy really IS messed up!
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Me at Hephzibah House in 1992 holding in my hands my most precious possession at the time.
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