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  books:
    - 'King Me'
    - 'The Heart of a Warrior'
    - 'Search and Rescue'
    - 'The Screwtape Letters'
    - 'It’s Your Call'
    - 'Wild At Heart'
    - 'Mere Christianity'
  birth_day: '15'
  birth_month: October
  birth_year: '1963'
  call: "After 2:30 PM.  I'm off work by then."
  email: brian.d.rudd@gmail.com
  experience: 'I have attended two "Heart of a Warrior Encouter" weekends, I have led a small men''s group using the book of the same name and I am still readining "King Me".  My wife Martie and I have joined a new church aand I feel God is leading me to be more invoolved with their Men''s Ministries.  '
  family: 'It is my wife and I and a cat.  We find ourselves, more often than not, associating with younger couples.  As we have both managed teams of younger adults, we woould often have them over for dinner or just to socialize.  We want them to know there is a safe person that is interested in them as a person.  We love to see them succeed in life and to be happy.'
  first_name: Brian
  heard: 'Martie and I bought our first house in 2017.  Rather, God dumped it in our lap as we thought we''d never own property.  Well, you know Him, he likes to show off.  Not only did we get a house but some decent property with it.  Enough so that I could name it.  So our place is known as "Bhennaigh le Dia"; Irish for "Blessed by God".  We bought in February of 2017 and that Spring, I took my first real walk on the property.  We have two creeks that meet at a waterfall.  I walked down there and was enjoying the warmth of the day and the new life sprouting everywhere.  It was then I heard "Do you see that tree?"  I said "yes".  I then heard "Do you see that other tree?" "Yes, Lord".  "Well, do you see that OTHER tree?"  "Yes, Lord"  (Mind you, I''m standing in the middle of a dense forest.  Of course I could see the trees)  "This land I give to you.  You are to use this land and this house to allow My love to rain down on others".  Ever since, we open oor home to any and all.  There is ALWAYS rooom for one more and we have a guest room just for those who need to get away with God or need a safe place.'
  last_name: Rudd
  listening: |-
    I was trained in active listening.  I know to ask questions andthen shut up.  
    We mn have been so wounded that it is almost impossible to be vulnerable.  Most times in their past, when they have opened up, a family member, significant other the world has reached in and stabbed his alredy wounded heart.  It is my task to create a secure environment where a man can be vulnerable.  Sometimes, a simple "me too" is all it takes.

    The beginning of friendship starts with "What, you too?  I thought I was the only one:. - C.S. Lewis
  mobile_phone: '16786145263'
  story: 'I taught skydiving for 21 years.  Once while ridiing to altitude a guy saw me covering my mouth and eyes closed while sitting on the floor of the plane.  He could tell "somethinig" was going on and asked loudly if I was ok.  One of the other divers told him to leave me alone as he knew I was praying for out safety, our jump and our landings.  Later, around a campfire he asked me if I was praying, was I praying for him too.  When he asked why, I explained I wanted ALL of us to make it into heaven and that this sport can arrange it really quick.  I told him of my faith and how I found it.  It is the one time I lead another to Yeshua.'
  terms: 'I am very familiar with each as I learned about them in "Heart of a Warrior".  Funny how you never know something is wrong until it''s shown to you.  Most of my wounds came from my father and most were "you''ll never be enough".  I agreed with that lie and that was easy as I was both small and sick with a chronic illness.  However, I made a vow that I would do the things that scared ohters and that would "prove" I was good enough.'
  testimony: 'I was raised in a church that never gave and altar call and never talked about salvation, damnation or anything "real" when it came to the Holy Trinity.  I was sent to a Christiian Middle School and there , at the age of 12, accepted Yeshua as my Savior.  I was baptized, to my parents ire, soon after at the school.'
  warfare: "I have found myself in spiritual warfare not only for myself but for others.  It ain't over and it won't be until Yeshua comes for us.  I have prayed for the spirit of fear, addiction and rage to be broken off others as well as a some for myself.  This is something not to be entered into alone either so I always gather other fellow warriors to assist."
  why: |-
    One realizes the value of a mentor when there wasn't one when growing up.  I would like to offer a younger man those things I did not have in hopes of avoiding many of the wounds, both worldly and self-inflicted that I suffered.  I would like leave a legacy of helping God to heal hearts and then set them on fire for Him.
    Nothiing to prove.
    Nothing to hide.
    Nothing to fear.
  wound: 'I was 18 and was biding my time until I turned 21, going to college and workinig part-time.   While running errands on a Wednesday with my father, he asked me "Son, what do you want to be when you grow up?"  I replied that I wanted to be a Dekalb County Police Officer.  Before I could tell him the reason was because when I was a kid, I watched my father render aide to someone and that inpsired me to help others, he replied "You have to be a man to be a cop and you''ll NEVER be a man"'