EARLY FAITH

“Like most young boys, I dreamed of adventure. I knew what I wanted to do with my life: I was going to become a stunt pilot,” seven-year-old Bobby Hoskins decided. His skyward aspirations soon landed, however, when Bobby’s parents took him to a special church meeting. The visiting evangelist shared the gospel, talked about the Holy Spirit, and invited people to come forward for prayer. Though Bobby had come to faith in Jesus a few years prior, he wanted more of what the speaker described and asked her for prayer. He clearly recalls the vision he received: “As I rose higher, somewhere into the heavens, Jesus appeared to me. He told me that He had called me to be His messenger and that I was to be a preacher of the Gospel…I explained to Jesus that I couldn’t become a preacher be

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