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I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us.

Welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute.

I'm Gary Bauer, the senior vice president of the Dobson Policy and Culture Center, and host of

Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom Podcasts.

You know, in Proverbs 272, we read this verse,

Let another praise you and not your own mouth.

Let it come from the lips of someone else and not your own.

We're going to hear today from another one of our everyday heroes of the faith,

but we're not actually going to meet him.

Instead, we've invited his oldest daughter to the Family Talk Studio to share with us about her father's legacy.

His name is Mike Tennant, and his love of the Lord and his passion to minister to others

has essentially revolutionized city planning and community engagement in the Pacific Northwest.

After moving from Portland to Ben, Oregon in 1979,

Mike began selling real estate.

He met and married his bride, Adele, a few years later.

They began a family ministry, raised three daughters,

and enjoyed a good life.

But Mike felt called to do more for the Lord and his

community. In 1992, Mike launched tenant developments. Now, I think 1992, pretty sure that was a year

of a recession. And yet it says something about him that he thought that was a good year to start a new

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