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Biography of David Spakes



This web site contains a scrapbook and condensed biography of David Spakes, Pastor of Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville and founder of Spirit and Truth Ministries. In most cases, you can click on pictures to see an enlarged photo in a separate window.

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1980

Accepted Jesus Christ as Savior

"The most important day of my life was the day that I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. It was Sunday, March 2, 1980. I remember that morning like it was yesterday. It was early. My mother, Ruby Lea Spakes, was sitting in front of her make-up mirror getting ready for church. On the other side of the room, the television was playing a sermon by the Reverend Jerry Falwell. I was eight years old at the time, and I wandered into my mother's bedroom and sat down on the edge of her bed to wait for her. I had heard the story of Jesus many times before, but that morning I prayed and accepted him as Lord of my life. The picture of me below in my bedroom dressed for church was taken at approximately the same age I was when I first became a Christian.

One of my most treasured possessions is a letter that I started to write to the televangelist that day, probably right after my mother stopped crying (although I don't remember). I didn't finish the letter, apparently because I made a mistake and the letter was written in pen. My mother rescued this fragment of the torn page out of the wastepaper basket and gave it to me some years later. Click on the letter to enlarge and read."




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