Love Lines

JUNE 1973

From time to time I would stay over at Ray's house for a day or two, just to hang around. On two occasions one of Ray's other friends also came over for the night. His friend was in charge of taking local calls for a national program called Love Lines, so for those two nights he transferred Love Lines to Ray's house.

Love Lines was a national program that featured Rock and Roll music with an anouncer who would preach the gospel and invite people to call in. Everybody calling in from Jacksonville would actually call into Ray's house on the 2 nights Ray's friend hooked up his phones at Ray's house. In other words, people would hear a program originating in New York, but when they called in from Jacksonville, they called into Ray's house.

The three of us took turns answering calls. When it was Ray's turn he got a call from a woman on the verge of divorce. Telling Ray about one problem after another about her relationship, Ray interupted her and asked her point blank, "How are you doing with the Lord?" After some thought she told Ray she wasn't doing too well so Ray focused on that for the rest of the conversation and led her to the Lord that night.

One year later, the second night we had the Love Line phones at Ray's house, when it was Ray's turn to take the phone, he got a call from the same lady he talked to a year previously. She called for the first time since she talked to Ray a year ago just to say she was thankful that since she gave her life to Christ, her life had turned around and her marriage was doing great.