There: Red Top Prison to Mt. Nebo

There is a place we all have been in life or already in that place or Getting to go into. There is a circumstance that puts in a life or death situation and a survival mode. You can either stay there and die or by the Grace of God with His guidance you can come out. This story about a young boy at the age of seventeen who was put in that There situation. We will call him Johnnie. Johnnie was with his two cousins who had not been town long when trouble broke out concerning them. Because of Johnnie's trouble childhood and early problem teen years he had made up his mind that he was not going to get in any trouble anymore in life. In fact Johnnie had decided he was on the straight and narrow path. Life has a strange way of turning itself around. The two adult cousins shot one of the Big Hustlers of the community over a woman causing them to have run and leave the state. The year was 1937 in Tennessee. The law was not going to let this rest so they found them in Alabama and shipped them back to Tennessee for trial. After the trial they received 393 years and Johnnie received 93 years alone. Johnnie was seventeen sent to Tennessee State Penitentiary known as -RedTop- with the repetition of being one of the worst prisons in the United States. Johnnie's tells of the horrible things he saw go on. But through it all Johnnie became the 1st Documented Ordained Pastor of the Prison and started Mt. Nebo Church housed in side the Prison. God favored Johnnie after 23years Johnnie was released from prison.