All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never

too late to start, and we're in this together. This is the Join the Journey podcast.

Thanks for joining Hannah Stabs here with the Watermark Institute, and today we're jumping into

Psalm chapter 38, and today I'm in the podcast studio with a faithful watermark member

and the founder of R calling Wayne Walker. Well, thanks for having me. Really appreciate it.

Wayne, we are so glad that you're here. Friends, I wish you could see Wayne physically. He is

wearing the brand, the R calling hat, the R calling quarter zip. Is that what you would call this?

Yeah, that's what it is. So Wayne Phyllisand, tell us a little bit about how did you come to know Jesus, and then where

are you at today with our calling?

You know, my parents tell me that I came to Christ at an early age.

Okay.

I'm like nine or ten years old, maybe even before then.

But I had a traumatic brain injury in school, so when I was 14, and so I really kind

of lost everything before then.

And so I kind of pursued everything that you shouldn't pursue after that age, got deep in depression, became an addict, tried to kill myself, all the normal stuff where life just kind of runs into a wall.

And really, the Lord and His grace and mercy called me back. I was his and didn't know it.

And he called me back to his own and started walking with him really through college, through Campus Crusade.

And then, you know, as far as working with the homeless community, when I was a child, my parents also were foster parents.

And so we had almost 70 different kids come in and out of our home.

And so I grew up with kids,

brothers and sisters that had been living in chaos, really the worst days in nightmare kind of stuff.

Yeah. And so when I went to seminary, went to DTS, I really just fell in love with people on the

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