Spirit and Truth Ministries
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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"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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