THE INSPIRING STORY OF NFL DRAFT PICK
"So she trusted the Bible she read every day and prayed she was doing the right thing."
When Javon Kinlaw was about 13, his mother sent him to live with his father in South Carolina. Leesa James-Exum did not want to do this with her youngest child. But some things hadn’t worked well since coming to Washington from Trinidad and Tobago in 1995.
The construction company she worked for had lost a contract, and the house where she lived with her two sons had become uninhabitable. Money was scarce. They moved through a series of basement apartments, some without electricity, some without water. Sometimes they had nowhere to stay. Many times they had no food.
She knew the neighborhood around 4th Street NE, where they lived most of the time, was no place for a child. She heard the gunshots, saw the fights. She worried that life wasn’t much better near Charleston, S.C., where Kinlaw’s father moved after their relationship ended years before, but at least the pace would be slower and maybe safer. So she trusted the Bible she read every day and prayed she was doing the right thing...READ MORE
Update:This feature was written prior to the NFL draft. Javon Kinlaw has since been signed by the San Francisco 49ers pro football team. We congratulate Javon and his family and praise God for the bounty Javon's success will provide.
