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DEREK MOUNT (Chap Stique): I came to Christ at a fairly young age, I was nine years old. I had been going to church since I could really read, and had been trained up in the Bible by my parents and my pastor and some other people, they were the key of my life there at church. I came to know Christ at a Billy Graham crusade when I was nine. My mom had been teaching me a lot through the Bible, I had memorized a lot of stuff and everything, and I could feel inside what Christ was doing in me, and knew that I needed to make a change. There was a guy named Chip Derden [phonetic] at my church at the time that was kind of a mentor of mine, that was a guy that was a deacon at the church, he was about 45 years old at the time. He was just a guy that I could come to and ask a lot of questions about, and we used to go through different passages of the Bible and he’d explain to me what they meant, and I just kept firing questions on and on. He was a very patient man to put up with an 8-year old kid just firing at him the whole time, a very patient gentleman. He was the one that first got me my first Good News version of the Bible, which he felt like I could maybe understand a little bit better, and I did. It made a big impact on my life and made it a lot easier to understand what Jesus was saying.