The Promise That Outlasted Three Generations
In 1943, a sharecropper named Hattie Mae Roberts in Kosciusko, Mississippi, made a quiet promise to God. She couldn't read, owned nothing, and picked cotton...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Acts 13:22-26.
In 1943, a sharecropper named Hattie Mae Roberts in Kosciusko, Mississippi, made a quiet promise to God. She couldn't read, owned nothing, and picked cotton six days a week. But every Sunday she walked her granddaughter to Faith United Mississippi Baptist Church and whispered the same prayer: "Lord, use this child for something I'll never live to see." Hattie Mae died in 1963.…
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