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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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1993

Attended the Florida Evangelism Project, Daytona Beach, FL

"The blizzard of the century occurred in March, 1993. A few hours before the snow started falling in Cookeville, Tennessee, my friend Barry Winn and I started driving to Daytona Beach, Florida to attend FLEP (the Florida Evangelism Project), a mission of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship to college students on Spring Break. God was with us, because we narrowly made it through the State of Georgia as Interstate 75 closed at several points behind us just minutes after we passed through. We made it, though, and joined about a hundred other IVCF students from other college campuses around the country. The beach was quiet that week, because even though no snow fell in Daytona Beach, the skies were overcast and the temperature was about forty degrees all week.

Several memorable things happened during FLEP that week, but I will share only one story that goes along with the picture below. That is me in the picture with the long hair, but you must understand that the hair is fake and attached to the Ron Jon's souvenier hat that I bought in Florida and am wearing in the photograph. Don't you agree that it matches the color of my beard very closely? Well, one very intoxicated young man thought so. We passed him on the sidewalk as we were headed to a Large Group meeting with the other FLEP students. He stopped us, looked at me with the long hair and carrying my guitar, and asked what music I played. When I told him we were Christians and that I played gospel music, he said (slowly and slurred) something like, 'Hey man, would you play Amazing Grace for me?' I played it, the other students with me sang to the young man, and together we all witnessed to him. This picture was taken after Barry and I returned to Cookeville and I was telling the students in our chapter of IVCF this story and about the other things that happened during our week in Florida."



Singing at the Church of God of Prophesy, Dyersburg, TN

"For part of the time I was enrolled at Tennessee Technological University, I attended church services at the Church of God of Prophesy in Cookeville, Tennessee. The pastor moved to Dyersburg, Tennessee, and on one weekend in 1993, Ruby Lea and I visited him at his new church. We sang during the Sunday morning service. On the same trip, we also found time to drive to Reelfoot Lake to spend part of the afternoon with the Pastor's family. Pictured below is the church building, Pastor James Lawson and his wife, Brenda Lawson, and a scene from Reelfoot Lake."



Preaching at the Algood Church of God, Algood, TN

"I was introduced to the Algood Church of God by one of my college friends, Tara. As part of my voluteer work with Spirit and Truth Ministries, I sang at this church and visited a nearby nursing home. For part of the time I was enrolled at Tennessee Technological University, I attended church services at the Algood Church of God. On a few occasions during that time, I preached the Sunday services at the church. The second picture below was taken of the church members in attendance during one of the services in which I preached."



Officiating My First Wedding in Maryville, TN

"Two of my college friends, Michael and Sonja, decided to get married after they graduated, and they asked me to perform the ceremony. The wedding took place at the historic Seventh Day Adventist Church building on Highway 411 in Maryville, Tennessee. At the time these pictures were taken, I had no idea that after my own graduation I would be moving to this part of the State, less than fifteen miles from where this church is located."




[1980s] [1990s] [2000s] [2010s] [All Years]
[1980] [1981] [1982] [1983] [1985] [1988] [1989]
[1990] [1991] [1992] [1993] [1994] [1995] [1996]
[1997] [1998] [1999] [2000] [2001] [2002] [2003]
[2004] [2005] [2006] [2007] [2008] [2009] [2010]
[2011] [2012]




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