From depression to ministry

From The Enterprise Ledger in Alabama: Tom Moates spent 40 years doing coaching, teaching and school administrative work. After retiring in August 2004, he spent the next year in a deep depression. . .until God spoke to him:

In 2005, God told me to get off my back-end and that He and I together would form a ministry using me as a speaker. As I drove through Enterprise one beautiful day I received a picture in the mail of a beautiful rainbow. This rainbow reminded me of the beauty in the sunrise I saw when God spoke to me about my seriously-injured son. He gave me peace then as I looked out the emergency room window. My son had just been in a terrible accident and God spoke to me of peace.

Moates' son, Pat, had to learn how to walk and talk again, but recovered and eventually graduated from Auburn University. And Tom Moates exited depression to form the "Beyond the Cross" ministry with God.