Wonder if any famous preachers got a very early start?
Toledo boy is a Pulpit Powerhouse
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Toledo boy is a Pulpit Powerhouse
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Most of the time, Jacob Thomas Matthew Walters is your average 12-year-old boy next door.
A polite, soft-spoken sixth grader with short brown hair and pudgy cheeks, Jacob said he is crazy about sports - all sports, naming soccer, football, hockey, basketball, and baseball as examples.
But give him a microphone and put him in a pulpit, and Jacob is transformed into a shouting, leaping, dancing, Bible-waving evangelist.
"Ive been preaching since I was 3 years old," he said in an interview at Powerhouse of Praise, a storefront church that opened last month in South Toledo.
"The Lord, when I was 3 years old in this big cathedral, my Daddy was preaching and I felt led to run up there," Jacob said. "I tugged on his suit coat and I said, Let me preach. I have a message from God. And I started saying scriptures that God put in my heart."
Jacob said he doesnt know how or why, but he is convinced that God called him to be a preacher.
"Once he starts, you cant shut him up," said the Rev. John Starrett, Jacobs stepfather and pastor of Powerhouse of Praise. "He didnt get this from a school of theology, he got it from the school of knee-ology - getting on his knees and praying."
