by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 6, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I was a volunteer at Metro Jail before I became the chaplain. As a minister, God gives you an assignment and I started out as an evangelist and working in the prison ministry at my church. Kenny Davis was the chaplain before me. He passed away and they asked me to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 5, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I walk Bama twice a day. We go about three city blocks. Everyone loves him and thinks he is pulling me. They have to meet him. He is always telling me, ‘I am ready mama.’ He was born in my dining room and I have raised him from the time he was born. My...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 4, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“Addiction began in my parent’s basement when I was eight years old. I found a bottle of booze. They never found out. I started sneaking something every once in a while. I was hiding from something. I was adopted at two. I think they got me out of a pretty...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 3, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I started hearing voices in my head that said, ‘Get gas pumps.’ There is always room for more gas pumps. They are long gone from gas stations and I found most of these from farms and ranches that had their own. I have warehouses of things. The dream is to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 2, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I am 38, have five kids, and just became a grandmother. My oldest son recently became a father at age 17 and the mother of his child was 15. I became pregnant at 19 and had my son at 20. I wasn’t prepared, but I wasn’t as young as the teenagers having...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 1, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I am a Native American. Cherokee and Seminole mixed. I am from Key West, Florida and traveled across the United States. My 95-year-old mother and two older brothers were killed in a bad car accident, but I survived. I have big scars in me because I did flips...