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My name is Ken Grant and I am a sinner saved by grace. Today, in the eyes of our lord Jesus Christ, I am now a servant of the most high god and a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. In the words of Paul the apostle I am a saint. In the eyes of the world though, I am an ex drug addict, ex thief, ex drug dealer, accused murderer, and an ex convict and will be till I die.
Though I was raised as a child to believe in god, and his son our lord Jesus
Christ, I chose to deny him and to live a life of my own choosing. Though I was taught by my parents to work hard and live honestly, I chose to rob and steal from those who chose to do right. I looked upon them as fools when in fact I was the fool.
In my early teens I chose to rebel against society. I grew up in the 60's when drugs and free love were the order of the day. My only desire was to get high as much as possible and have sex as often as I wished I began smoking pot as a teenager and was soon taking LSD and speed. I soon moved on to downers and from there to heroin. I was concerned only with my own self gratification, anyone who got in my way found out real quick that their needs, their feelings, and ultimately their lives, meant nothing to me. With an attitude like mine it was no surprise that by the time I turned 21 I had already served 3years in the California youth authority. After being released for the third time and being discharged from parole, I decided to join the military. Because of the lower standards for enlistment during the Vietnam war I was accepted into the Marine Corp. though because of the descalation of the war instituted by President Nixon I never got to go to Vietnam, which at the time I greatly regretted. My friends returning from Nam convinced me it was all about getting loaded and killing people over there. I thank God that he kept me out of Viet Nam for I would have sinned greatly over there. So here I was a soldier without a war, not only that, being a Pvt. I had a ton of people telling me what to do, and most of them expected me to call them sir. and so like so many other commitments in my life I quit the Marine Corp. though the
quitting would cost me 2 years in federal prison. I was sent to El Reno federal reformatory in El Reno Oklahoma for stealing a car and driving it to Oklahoma City. El Reno didn't impress me much in fact after settling in I got myself involved in a riot that ended up getting me thrown in the hole and shipped to Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution in California, which was fine with me, I lived in California. Federal prison did nothing to deter me from my chosen path, in fact I was elevated to gangster status in the eyes of my homeboys. I learned a lot in my 2 year stay at Lompoc though a lowly car thief I hung out with the bank robbers and kept my ears open. I was introduced to the new age by a guy by the name of Donny who was doing 15 years for bank robbery this allowed me to formulate my own philosophy of life that justified anything I cared to do so it wasn't too surprising that just 30 days after being released from Lompoc I was involved in a shooting in Ontario Ca. and arrested for 1st degree murder. Due to technicalities in the law I made bail. While out on bail I was involved in a drug deal in Pomona that went bad and two of my business partners were shot and killed. Years later I would run into two of the gang members involved in that killing. One, a Victory Outreach pastor. The other an evangelist for Victory Outreach. What an awesome thing the Lord had done in the three of us, who at one point in our lives Had sought to kill each other, and now through the love of God we are part of the same family. The family of God.
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