Saved at age nine, Tommy dreams of a baseball career but God has other plans. He becomes a paramedic and firefighter at age 23. God puts suicidal people, drug addicts and other desperate people in Tommy’s life, and he witnesses to one and all, including a former neighbor who brought fear to Tommy as a child. He even recounts one instance of failing to witness to a dying man. All the vignettes are examples to us of God’s grace and love and our responsibility to tell others.
2990 Tommy Neiman
Firefighter, Paramedic, Fear
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