John Gwin:  

Life This "life" bio is in the works--click my "school" bio link for that one. School My sophomore year, I was invited by some friends to attend Bible Club, which had only that year been kicked out of the gym and off campus because of the Madelyn Murray O'Hair ruling. The Christian church across Kanawha Terrace had opened its doors to us, and by my senior year, every Wednesday over 500 SAHS students took sack lunches there for singing, praying, and listening to the Word of God. According to a Sunday Gazette-Mail special feature sometime in 64-65, we had the largest Bible club east of the Mississippi River! I joined the Bible Club Quiz Team, and once a month we'd quiz against two of the dozen or so other BCQ Teams in the valley on a Sat. night at the Youth for Christ Rally held at the Salvation Army Citadel in Charleston. Mr. Danny Fisher was the YFC leader, and Jim Jeffords was our club president our senior year. Meanwhile, LeRoy Keeney, the pastor of my home church (Highlawn Baptist, a block down Jefferson Ave. from SAHS) and Betsy Gillian, our youth director, kept faithfully preaching and sharing every Sunday. With the combined exposure at YFC and especially at my home church, to the gospel of our Lord, it had become clearer and clearer to me what I had to do. It was like the devil was in a struggle with the Lord Jesus, the two of them having a tug-of-war with me in the middle! And in the spring of my junior year, at a youth function of our church, I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ. We had put a little "rally" together ourselves for that weekend, and there were 50 or more of us listening to the guest speaker talk about what it meant to be a "real" Christian. He said that having Jesus be Lord of your life was sort of like driving your truck down one of the back roads in Putnam County at night, not sure where you w...Expand for more