BTTBM MAY 2017 UPDATE
WELCOME ELLA ANN MULLINS
Introducing Ella Ann Mullins, born on May 4, 2017 at 10:36 a.m. at 7 lbs. 5 oz., 19.5 inches. Parents Megan & Brandon Mullins; Big Brother Brantley Mullins; Our 3rd grandchild & 2nd granddaughter
YOU DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IT
This past Monday (May 15) Jack Goodman passed away. He took an interest in me when I was in my late 20s and helped me start a non-profit ministry in 1980, right about the time Wanda and I were married. He put Wanda in a nice job as the receptionist at the company he owned. Not long after I met Jack, he actually offered to pay for me to make a Christian record album. I was a member at the church he and his family attended, I sang solos occasionally at church, and was a volunteer worker with the youth. After church on Sundays when I sang, he would mention to me often, when everyone would visit in the hallways after church, that I ought to make a record album. I told him I didn’t have the money to do so, and he would say that he would pay for me to do one. I thought he was kidding, but he later told my dad how much he was willing to pay for me to record an album. If I had known Jack was that serious, I would have done it!
Jack did financially help me to form a non-profit ministry back in 1980 known as Celebration Ministries, which we promoted as an evangelistic music and youth ministry. After a few months I was asked by a church, where I had sung as part of a Celebration Ministries booking, to be their part-time youth minister, and I accepted. A year later Wanda and I made a move to a larger church for me to be their full-time youth minister, so I was not able to travel anymore to different churches and events as a music evangelist. So, the vision I had for Celebration Ministries, which was really out of my league at the time, was put on hold for about 30 years.
What I have been able to do through Back To The Basics Ministries since it was formed in July 2009 is similar to the vision I had for Celebration Ministries back in 1980. I had the privilege within recent years to thank Jack Goodman for the investment of time and money he made in me from 1977-1981 and how it helped to build confidence and self-esteem in me as a minister with a vision way beyond my abilities at the time. His wife, Dianne, was a side by side partner with Jack then and throughout their 53 years of marriage. I have had contact with Dianne and their son, Jeff, through Facebook for several years. When I contacted Jeff last Monday to express my condolences over his dad’s death, Jeff sent this reply to me:
“Dad would watch you on TV while he was bedridden and mom tuned in when he was unconscious during last week. You were a calming voice and ministered to him and you didn’t even know it.”
Praise the Lord! That is what A Fresh Start TV Program is all about. It allows me to minister to people I will never meet or unable to be with to bring salvation spiritually to the lost and to provide spiritual encouragement and uplifting to Christians in the good times and in their times of need.
Thank you to the financial supporters of Back To The Basics Ministries for partnering with me to make a difference spiritually for many whom we don’t even know we are reaching out to in the name of Jesus.
You may send a tax-deductible donation to: Back To The Basics Ministries; P.O. Box 32486; Knoxville, TN 37930 or go to www.drbobbymullins.com , click on the Donate link and follow the instructions. The “donations lean” summer months are almost upon us and your financial help will be greatly appreciated.
Blessings,
Bobby Mullins
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