My name is Dennis Spencer and I was born in the small town of Lexington, Missouri in 1948. At 2 years of age my parents moved to Arizona on their doctor’s advice that the drier climate would be better for my older brother, George, who was suffering from polio. Unfortunately, I remember very little about my brother as he passed away when I was only 4 years old. What I do remember is growing up in the mining town of Superior, Arizona and attending the First Baptist Church there. I remember learning about Jesus in the Sunday school classes and being baptized at the age of 10. Shortly after that, we moved from Superior to Apache Junction, Arizona, then back to Lexington, Missouri, and finally to Mesa, Arizona during my freshman year of high school. After leaving Superior we stopped going to church for some reason and didn’t start attending church again until my junior year of high school. This did not last long as my parents seemed to always be arguing and threatening to divorce one another, which they eventually did 3 years later.