Jimmy Breland, with only an eighth-grade education, never became an officer in the church and never owned a home; nor did he ever own a car. He always got a job driving a truck, because money was tight. So I went to Sunday School in a Jewel Tea and Coffee truck, an Atlantic Richfield truck and a linoleum truck. I was not the only one influenced by Jimmy Breland—19 boys in my class of 25 went into some form of full-time Christian service. When I told the story of Jimmy Breland at the National Children’s
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