Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Unfortunately, many of the people were small too. In those churches, factory workers who ran plant machinery by day came to board meetings at night and tried to become executives. It didn’t work. Even in my early teens, I could sense the ineptness. As employees, they had no experience in good management, and they were incapable of offering anything better for the church. They assumed places of leadership without having leadership training. I watched day laborers