Mack, welcome.

Well, thank you for having me.

Um, I'm a little nervous.

Like you mentioned, I don't like telling my story because my past has nothing to do with who I am now.

I was alone in this world until I gave my life to the Lord at the age of 33 years old.

I was born into extreme poverty with a single mom who did what she had to do to keep us alive.

Some of those things were unspeakable, so it wasn't uncommon for me to see multiple men coming through the apartment or the shack or the trailer or the camper or the bus that we were living in at the time, every day, and especially at night.

Mm-hmm.