Farmer Receives Seeds of Faith to Become Pastor
The year was 1925. A time when the roaring twenties were in full swing and baseball was America’s favorite pastime.
It was also the year Ray Logan was born which was not only the beginning of his life but the starting point of Ray’s faith story.
Ray says, “My parents were both Christians. We didn’t get into church very often because of the cost of things.”
It was a much simpler time when farming was a way of life and to believe in God was the only way to eternal life believed and cherished by most.
“Bible school was an important time in my life. It was 1935, I was 10 years old, of course, going to Bible school and receiving a little plaque that says, ‘I must be about my Father’s business’.
I played with that and have had it all my life. It still sits in a very prominent place in my study,” Ray recalls.
It was also about the time Polio was claiming countless lives especially among children.
It is a turning point in Ray’s life, one that he is convinced God used to get at this young man’s heart.
"When I was 19, the epidemic of Polio came through the area. One of my friends died from it, I was taken ill, and that was a very serious moment in my life," said Ray.
“They wheeled me down the hallway down to the quarantine area and placed me in quarantine with polio.
They expected that this would be it. I was in that quarantine room where no one would seldom come in. I couldn’t let the quilts touch the floor. They didn’t know what to do. There was no medicine, they just came by once in a while to check and that’s where the Lord really became very special. I said ‘yes’ to the Lord and that I would do what He wanted me to do.
Five days and five nights there, just all alone with the Lord,” he said.
He had a new girlfriend at the time, Lorraine remembers waiting for word, any word that Ray was still alive.
"We had only dated two or three times but I knew it was very serious because there were people dying everyday from polio,” Lorraine remembers.
When asked if she ever thought she was going to see him again she answered, “I had my doubts.”
Ray says, “And so, after that the Lord raised me up and after five days they said, ‘You’re fine.
You can go home’. They checked and my tonsils were gone. Doctors since, they will still ask look in and they’ll ask me where my tonsils are.
I don’t have any scars and you can’t feel my tonsils. And that’s the evidence of God healing me from polio.
And that’s the evidence that I’ve carried with me and have been able to be a witness for Christ.
So, I know that God can heal.”
Soon after, Ray and Lorraine were married. Lorraine was ready to be the wife of a full-time farmer but God had different plans for this newlywed couple.
“Lorraine didn’t know I was wrestling with these things, with full-time Christian service.
As she says, she thought she was marrying a farmer,” Ray admits. And then he prayed, “Lord, before the boy leaves this farm you have to get the farm out of the heart.
The Lord did.”
Ray was a young man, a new husband and embarking on the unknown but ready to follow his Lord and Savior wherever He was about to lead.
"These are special times. I have a hard time talking about it. That’s kind of the building of our faith, of my faith, I don’t question what God was, and He is.
I only question, do we allow Him to be as big as He wants to be? He is a big God and He can meet our need, every need,” Ray concludes.
THIS HAS BEEN A STORY OF PASTOR RAY LOGAN AND HIS WIFE LORRAINE. RAY IS THE FOUNDER OF FAITH SOUND INCORPORATED, WHICH OWNS KFSI RADIO
AND STARTED THIS INTERNET MINISTRY. WE WILL BE DOING MORE SEGMENTS ABOUT THEM AND THE ENTIRE MINISTRY OF FAITH SOUND INCORPORATED.
