James Dotson:  

CLASS OF 1958
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Caruthers, CA

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after h.s. i floped around not really knowing what direction to take. i worked for gandy crop duster for the first couple of years. married diana cox the most wonderful girl in the world. we will be married,47 years,in june 15th. we have 3 chrildren . david 33,michale 45 and tracy 47.they all are married and have their own families. in 1963 i went to work for valley nitrogen fertilizer co. and stayed there for about 5 years until 1966.the one thing that made my life worth living was diana my sweet wife. part II my wife prayed for me when our first child,tracy,was born and low and behold,one night at valley nitrogen fertlizer plant on the swing shift,i defended our supervisor for inviting people to his church.that was my big mistake, because when i said"if he believes that is what God wants him to do then he must do it",God spoke to me in the stillness of my heart and said"don't you know what to do but you are no doing it are you jim? right there in the darkness of the swing shift i ask The Lord Jesus Christ into my life and promised to fellow Him no matter what. I've been trying to do that ever since. God has blessed me beyond measure. next..... part III my wife and i begain attending first baptist church in caruthers. we went to sunday school,worship service in the morning and service on sunday night, as well as prayer service on wednesday night,and began calling on homes on thursday night. i guess people who knew me before thought i had gone over the deep end. i had been tranformed...Expand for more
by GOD thru faith in the LORD JESUS CHRIST and i wanted everyone to know it. as i followed the LORD my hunger for the things of GOD increased and i began thinking of going to bible college. one day our pastor asked me if i had been thinking about being a preacher an evangelist, and emediatly lied and said NO. part IV coming up soon. so as time went by i began memorizing parts of the bible, as i did that i found myself thinking more and more like GOD in the bible. GOD was changing my thought process from human thinking to GODLY thinking. it did not take long to answer GOD's call to go to bible college inorder that i might better serve the LORD JESUS CHRIST everyday. and so my wife and i sold our house and new 19641/2 mustang and moved to phoenix arizonz along with our two childdren tracy age 6 and michael age 4. we started arizona bible colleg in l967 and graduated in 1971 megna cum laude, praise the LORD. during our schooling diana worked as cook at the college and i worked at night as a janitor. part V COMING UP Next we moved to bakersfield,california after graduation. we pastored grace baptist church from 1971 to 1975. what a ride. the former pastor withdrew himself from the church because he said i was living in sin. yes it is true i played a game of pool in a prospective members gargage one night and he heard about it.anyway we got booted out of the church,for reasons i still do not understand. that how God brought us to sauvie island oregon in january of 1975. EXT
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