Founder’s History – Part 4

 The doctor gave me some prescriptions for some medicines. I didn’t get them filled, I knew that Jesus had done the miracle for me, praise the lord. But Jesus had spoken to me about the full time ministry hallelujah! So I told my wife as we were heading home, I said, “honey I’ve got to go into the full time ministry but I’m going to have to change what I am doing, I’m going to be on the road traveling. Jesus said he would open up for me what he wanted me to do.” So I told the lord, I said, “lord if this is really you, give me the one to go to, to start with hallelujah. There’s a pastor up in Savannah ,Georgia the very next day called me, and as we were talking she said Elder Martin, they called me Elder back then, and said I want you to come to preach a revival for me. I said okay, I said tell me the date and the time you want me to come. She said how about 2 weeks, now come and we will prepare for one week revival I said alright we will be there. Well, at that time I was planning on taking my wife and children with me because they were out of school on a summer break during that time so she said ok I’ll have a place for you all to stay. Well my mother lived in Savannah, Georgia at that time. We went to my mother’s house and stayed; me, my wife and 5 children. As we began the revival, God moved in a powerful way, the anointing of God, people was blessed and souls were saved. She had a small church onLouisvilleroad there in Savannah, Georgia, hallelujah. The Miracle Deliverance Center.

Hallelujah, and we just obeyed what God said to do, praise God. Before I got through with that revival, I had somebody else wanting me to come to their church. And there was this preacher there from out of state. He approached me about setting up a revival meeting a month or so ahead at his church. So I began in the full time ministry traveling, preaching and my family when they could, they went with me. But I could not take them all the time because it was too expensive, praise the lord. So after the revival was over at the first church I went and took my family home because the children had to go back to school that next week. We went back home. My wife that I was married to then, we were married for 25 years before God took her out (she had an attitude problem sometimes so God had to work this thing out to keep her in line with the ministry). But as I began to preach and minister, God began to give me different ones to travel with me in the ministry. 

God gave me 4 different people to travel with me in the full time ministry but God had a way of doing things that we didn’t understand, yet he always brought it to a head. So as I went into the ministry, we set up a revival in Crestview, Florida and set a tent revival in Andalusia, Alabama, it was about 50 miles from Crestview, Florida. We closed out the revival in Crestview, Florida from where we had the tent stored. We put it on the back of an open flatbed trailer, the tent and the equipment, with the Hammond organ and Leslie speaker. The sun was shining when we left Crestview, Florida. While we were picking up the tent, the devil decided that he would try to kill me again, but you know I serve a God, that is really awesome. I was bitten by a ground rattle snake, he bit me once, and before I could move to kick him out of my way he bit me again. I didn’t tell anybody that I was bitten by a ground rattle snake, but I went on took deathly sick and began to run a fever, I died for 14 minutes in back of the van on the sofa I was laying down. Mother Ware was one of the women that God put within the crusade team and she traveled with us. She had known me for many years and she worked with me when I was in revival in Palatka, Florida. She knew what I was in God and she knew I was a real man of God, I lived what I preached. Hallelujah! We also at that time had a young woman, which is now my wife but her name was Evangelist Willie Lee Jordan, at that time and she was a part of the ministry, my musician, secretary for the ministry, and my wife. She helped me drive. She also was taught how to work the computer for the ministry.