By Wanda Alger, IFA Field Correspondent Intercessors for America
In [Intercessors for America’s] continuing series on God-fearing leaders in government, they look at three more believers who have been called to serve our nation in the new White House administration.
Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy, grew up on a cotton farm in Paint Creek, TX. It was a small town with a Methodist church on one end and a Baptist church on the other—and his family was active in both churches. In his 2008 book, On My Honor, Perry says life revolved around school, church, and the Boy Scouts.
After graduating from Texas A&M with a B.A. in Animal Science, he became an Air Force Commander and served five years before coming home to Texas to farm with his father. Perry felt personally adrift and became desperate for God.
“My faith journey is not the story of someone who turned to God because I wanted to,” he stated in a recent speech,“ . . . it was because I had nowhere else to turn. What I learned as I wrestled with God is that I didn’t have to have all the answers . . . and that I needed to trust Him.”
After this life-changing encounter with God, he married his childhood sweetheart Mary Thigpen. He then began to pursue a call