Dear Reader�My name is the Rev. Luke L. Chapman. I haven�t always been a preacher, quite the contrary. When I was a young teenager everyone always said: �Boy what a good kid Luke is. He is a wonderful young man.� Because of a stepfather that had no love for me, my clothes were packed for me and placed on the front porch on Christmas morning. Arrangements were already made for a near friend to pick me up to take me to my real dad�s home. This became a cycle unto me. I learned soon to take flight in life, realizing I�m on my own. I was kicked out of school for truancy, failure to want to go to school and to learn. This started a foundation for my life, for my ongoing future. My… new friends taught me how to smoke, drink, and cuss and to tell lies. I graduated to smoking weed and using cocaine. I never drank or used cocaine on a regular basis. I just started on weekends or invited parties. I got married and had a child when I was 21 years old. But, with a lifestyle of drinking, spending money in bars and not on bills or in my home, I soon went through a divorce. Does this sound familiar, like today�s youths? At this time, now I�m remarried my wife and I are both cocaine addicts. My wife smoked weed? I sold weed and cocaine to supply our habits. My wife left me one day. I was arrested the same day and put in jail.In jail, I bowed my knees on the floor in my cell. I was the only one there that day. I called upon Jesus and was saved and sent to North Central Correctional Institution. I never thought anyone cared. But I was so wrong. What was meant for evil for me, God changed for the good. Prison became my Bible college. Prison was where God counseled me about my morals. God taught me about being a good husband, a good father unto my children and how a preacher must live and act. Your Friend, The Preacher Man... Luke L. Chapman, Gods Vision� A Ministry of Fire. For information contact THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES and PUBLISHING HOUSE, PO Box 1, Ludlow Falls, Ohio 45339 USA or see TheVillageCarpenter.info
You may be wondering... The Village Carpenter! Who is He? What is He? Why is He here? Let us start by telling you that the name The Village Carpenter comes from about 2011 years ago. Jesus was a Carpenter! He lived in the village of Nazareth! Thus came the name The Village Carpenter! For information contact THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES and PUBLISHING HOUSE, PO Box 1, Ludlow Falls, Ohio 45339 USA or see TheVillageCarpenter.info