Everybody, Greg Laurie here. I think most of you heard my story, and if you've seen the Jesus

Revolution movie, maybe you have some questions. You saw my mother beautifully played by Kimberly

Williams-Pasley, but there were references to my dad who she was leaving, and he wondered, well,

what happened with all of that? So that's a true story. We were living in New Jersey,

and Oscar Laurie had adopted me. He was not my biological father, but he was the only man my

mom married. She married into voice seven times. He was the only man who ever treated me as a

father should treat his son, and I really loved him. So one day I was getting out of school,

and I saw that our car was loaded up with our luggage, and I said to my mom, what's going on? She

says, we're leaving. I said, where's dad? She said, he's not coming. That was the last I saw of

Oscar Laurie for the rest of my childhood. So in the film, you see a very young Greg constantly

sketching, and indeed I was an artist, and I was always drawing throughout my childhood, and he's

drawing this little stump with the word Rapula Lot under it. That's the Laurie motto. It's on

our family crest, and it means it buds a fresh. So let me now finish the story. What happened in

real life? I already told you in another post that my mother came to Christ later in her life.

So what about my dad who adopted me? So I was a young pastor. Our church was just beginning. I

was at my very early 20s. My son, Christopher had been born, and I wonder, what ever happened to my

dad? So I found someone that worked for the Bar Association because he was an attorney, and she

tracked him down. This is before Google. So I get his number, and I call his office in New Jersey,

where he's now living. He's remarried. Has a new family, and I called his office. I said,

hi, I is Oscar Laurie and in his secretary said, no, he's out at lunch. Can I ask who's calling?

I said, yes, it's Greg Laurie. And she said, how do you spell your last name? I said the same

way he spells his, this is his son. I quickly got a call back, and Oscar said, Greg, and so good

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