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| The Goodwin Collection | 
Rev. and Mrs. J.R. Goodwin | Ministering at: Christ For the Nations Institute Dallas, Texas | "How Our Ministry Started" (January 10, 1971 Afternoon Service) Rev. and Mrs. J.R. Goodwin Copyrighted Recording Total Recording Length: 66 Minutes Sample Length: 5 minutes Purchase: CD: $5.00 Digital Download: $2.00 | | Recording Description: (I think this is one of the most interesting recordings in the Goodwin Collection because both Mom and Dad Goodwin speak more about their early years of life, marriage, and first entering into ministry, than in any other recording I've come across). This is the first recording of several services the Goodwins held at Christ For The Nations Institute in Dallas, TX in 1971. It begins with an introduction by CFNI Founder Gordon Lindsay. In this recording, Dad ministers and then Mom teaches awhile. Sister Goodwin tells some accounts of the early days of their marriage and ministry. She tells of accepting the Lord as her Savior through a revival campaign held by Rev. James Hoover in her home church. Mom also tells of how she later urged Dad to accept the Lord, and while he was smoking a cigarette, he told her that he had known the Lord since he was little. She pointed out the contradiction between his words and his actions. Mom also relates an experience she had with an angel directing her to attend a certain church, and how she first experienced the Holy Spirit in a strong way there. Mom and Dad both make a number of comments about Brother Hagin, indicating how highly they thought of him. And in a humorous story, Sister Goodwin tells how Kenneth Hagin Sr. aggravated her one time when she and Dad were praying with him. On a historical note, let me point out something that is said in this recording, for those of you who were not around back then. Something Sister Goodwin says in this recording sounds strange by today's standards. This was recorded in 1971. I was 12 in 1971, so I remember first-hand the accepted norms of the time. At that time the term "black" in reference to African Americans had not become commonly used. The courteous term used at that time was to refer to African Americans as "colored people." Sister Goodwin tells of ministering to "a colored fellow" who was from Haiti. Although this term has fallen out of usage today, and it therefore sounds strange when you hear it used in this recording, it was not considered to be a deragatory term at the time, and the Goodwins certainly had nothing in their hearts of an unloving, unkind, or discriminatory nature. |
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