Listen now to Stories podcast season 2

I learned something from Dewayne Rembert this week that still has me shaken — in the first 30 days after he became a follower of Jesus, he led 30 people to make the same decision he did.

That’s challenging.

So is the rest of his story — a story of a young man who grew up without a father, a young man never exposed to the true gospel of Jesus even though he attended a church as a child. The Father found him and turned his life around, and he started investing his life in pursuing young, fatherless men with the gospel. And then his story crossed paths with a small, aging church in a part of Montgomery with a lot of brokenness. Since then, the redemption story has only multiplied.

It’s challenging to hear Dewayne share his story of how he grew up. It’s challenging to hear how he immediately knew that the gift of the gospel was meant to be shared, and shared constantly. And it’s challenging to hear the story of an older congregation who decided to partner with him to reach their changing community.

You can hear the whole thing on the Stories podcast, season 2 — The Flatline Story. Over the three episodes — told serial-style with narration and featuring the voices of Dewayne and others — you’ll hear amazing stories of how God redeemed Dewayne and restored him and then began restoring a church that thought its best days were in the past.

And if you’re a church that finds itself in the same spot, or you can see that on the horizon, you’ll also hear from the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions how your church can have a story like that of Chisholm Baptist Church, Montgomery, led by Daniel Edmonds, and Flatline Church at Chisholm, led by Dewayne.

The first two episodes of season 2 are out, with the third coming May 28.

And if you haven’t listened to it yet, you can also catch season 1 — The Sammy Gilbreath Story. With that one, you’ll journey through the twists and turns — and risks — of the life of Sammy Gilbreath, longtime state evangelism director.

Check out Stories at tabonline.org/stories or wherever you get your podcasts.