Another Special Life in Christ:
These testimony lives are not stories of "role models". Jesus is the role model! These are lives wonderfully touched & changed by Jesus!

Robert K. "Butch" Galloway:

His Life Before Jesus Came In:

 He was born with severe cerebral palsy (CP) in Sumter, S. C. (my birth town) in about 1934, to a Sumter family, having two older brothers and a younger sister (she was crippled). The family was connected to the Julius and Mary Chandler family who lived on Harby Street behind my Brown grandparents. He was not very old when his mother died tragically.

He was taught school at home by home-bound school teacher, Mrs. "Will" Plowden (nee. Martha Shuler) who also taught my first cousin, R. T. Brown, III.

"Butch" and family were regularly in Sunday school and church as members of Trinity United Methodist Church (where my family worshipped & my mother is still a member). He was baptized and confirmed there.

 My mother asserts that it was Mrs. Plowden who paved the early way for Butch to have a miraculous outcome by insisting that he learn manners, that he control his speech so that "spit" didn't spray on those in the conversation, and that he be involved in Sunday school activities.

His Life Since Jesus Came In:

Butch got his first job as a boy at the Watchman newspaper on Main Street...which transitioned into Sumter Printing Company. Butch married Evelyn, a lady with as bad or worse case of CP. They had one son, Rob, who now manages the company. Butch has been active in the Chamber of Commerce and Trinity United Methodist Church all of his life and sits behind my mother in church.

For other God-engineered victories over CP, check out Rev. Dave Ring's [testimony & his website], and Julie Reagan's [testimony], and Ruth Sienkiewicz (whose book is, I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes ). And check out the comedian Josh Blue...see his routines on YouTube and Kyle West's amazing story. Also, J. P. "Jack" & Margaret Pratt (West Columbia, S. C.) finished over 50 years of amazing parenting to their son, Anthony J. "Tony" Pratt, an identical twin and the one who had CP so bad that he could only be taken to church lying in something like a baby stroller. Tony died at age 53 on January 6th,  2010.

What is the Gospel...the "good news" of Jesus?