Location: United States
Member Since:
Sep. 13, 2011
Don Jeffries
Biography
As a young teenager, Don Jeffries sat on the back row when Gordon Weekley mounted the pulpit as the first pastor of the fledgling Providence Baptist Church in Charlotte. Later, Jeffries became an award-winning advertising agency creative director and board member of Rebound Christian Rehabilitation Center which Gordon Weekley headed. During his board tenure Jeffries created numerous pro bono fund-raising ad campaigns that brought a million dollars annually into the Center. As an ad writer, Jeffries won over 600 awards for creative excellence, including three first-place honors from the Ad Club of New York and a coveted Clio award. Today he continues to write as a free-lancer for a variety of clients.
Books
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
by Don Jeffries
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 83,330.
Language:
English.
Published: September 13, 2011
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction, Nonfiction » Biography » Religious biography
Gordon Weekley was a Baptist minister. Compassionate, hardworking, attentive to the needs of his congregation, holding to a vision of building a great church, Gordon drove himself to the edge of exhaustion. A doctor gave him a two prescriptions; one to give him energy, the second to help him sleep. Thus began a downward spiral that brought him to ruin from which only God’s grace could save him.