This is the brief, touching story of J. Lloyd Tomer, a former pastor who was fired from his church in the early 1980s for busing in black children to his church. Now he's helping other "losers" who are sick and tired of losing.
Date August 10, 2006. Time: 2 a.m. After driving all night thru clam-chowder fog, we finally saw St. Louis Arch. . . .Gateway to the West. Symbol of Opportunity. Silver monument of dreams-come-true. And we were going to be with at least 8,000 more sick and tired people at, off all places, The America's Center on Washington Street, downtown St. Louis. It was the right place. But little did we realize that this time, it was truly "our time."
But my husband Kenny and I, along with our soon-to-be-college graduate son Roger, were just like most Americans who've been kicked around by life. We thought dreams were for those who were born into it. We didn't believe that anyone really cared about people of color who wanted more out of life. . . .until we met this white 73 year old who has a 7 year old daughter. . . .and we affectionately call him "The Coach."
If J. Lloyd Tomer needs a book, then I'm going to ask him if I can write it. And in as few words as possible I'm going to tell you why.
J. Lloyd Tomer lost his wife to cancer when she was just 39 years old. His son Scott Tomer blamed God for 25 years until Scott's best friend lost a battle to cancer, but not before his dying friend introduced him to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Coach was a preacher who loved people, not just white people. An influential big wig in the church he ministered called Coach to the carpet so to speak, and said that there is no way he would allow any preacher, especially J. Lloyd Tomer, to bus in anybody's child that was darker than his own skintone.
In fact, Coach recalled the conversation well (for a man who looks like he's in his late 50s). He said this man told him, basically (paraphrase) "This is a church for white children, and if you keep bringing in (the n word, non-whites) they you won't have a job here anymore.
So, when Coach kept bringing in God's rainbow coalition, the promise was kept. He got fired.
The same year, he lost his wife to cancer. She was only 39. He lost all of his "white Christian" friends. He lost a WHOLE lot of money and made less than $11,000 that year. Yes, Coach needed a coach. He was depressed, but he did not give up. Even when his sons Frank and Scott gave up on him, Coach DID NOT GIVE UP!
That's the message of countless people in the Success at Home Magazine coming out the end of this year. I can't tell you the entire story about Juliet St. John, (page 98) a single mother sleeping in her car now making millions because of YTB; I can't tell you the full story about Kevin g-g-g-g-Giguere, (page 110) a former grocer store manager who commuted more than 100 miles one way to work, stocking shelves and bagging groceries who was a skeptic of YTB but after 10 months is making more than $100,000 a year with free full medical insurance and $100,000 FREE life insurance for his family.
I can't tell you all of the stories of black, white, brown, yellow, homeless people, people who already had money, people who wished they could provide for their elderly parents, people broken up from divorce who found YTB to be a Godsend of a business for them. Coach even took the nation's top attorney, Ted Lindauer with him to to Macon GA during convention week to help Jerome Hughes in a critical situation for his family. And Jerome Hughes is a black man whose son was in drug and legal trouble.
But Coach respected Jerome enough to tell the judge who was ready to lock up Jerome's teen age son into prison for at least 3 years, that the boy deserved another chance and that he'd give him a job at YTB, as well as be responsible personally for his drug rehab.
(How many multimillionaires do you know who would hire your drug-addicted child and support your family, not for show, but out of unconditional love? J. Lloyd Tomer did. And he does not discriminate!)
There is story after story like this of people who life had just kicked in the teeth, and YTB gave them the strength and the support to kick back and say "How ya' like me now?!"
So I guess you're just going to have to wait for the magazine, or send me your address so I can mail you an advanced copy that has the dual disk DVD/CD explaining everything, along with how you can make $20 for every copy you hand out if you want your own travel website. One person can't do it all. That's why we're a YTB team, all over the world. You see now y'all, this YTB is not just a business. I ain't just another "deal". . . .YTB is family. YTB is for real! And they promise all of their member $6,000. No one else has the guts, and the love that the rest of the business world forgot.
So come join us if you're ready for a change. Because we're ready to show you the world, and teach you how to take a PAYcation. . . .all, over, the world.
As of 8/11/06: YTB Guarantees every RTA makes $6,000 in 12 months! If you don’t, then YTB PROMISES to pay you the difference. GUARANTEED FAMILY INCOME! (www.whyIfiredmyboss.com). If you haven’t guessed yet, 99 percent of authors are broke.
Note from cynth'ya: As a powerteam leader in YTB, (the highest earning level after just being in the business since March 2006, it would be wrong for me not to tell those about something life changing and history changing. As of December 2006, bookstores all over the US and Canada will be graced with magazine after magazine talking about other Beverly Hills and movie stars, except for one.
This one very special magazine called "Success from Home": Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2007. What's so special about this is you'll see on the cover, three guys who've been kicked around by life by people who made promises who never kept them, and they set out to change that when the rest of the world say they were crazy. It's accompanied by articles by Les Brown and Robert Kiyosaki.
But mostly, this magazine is about how Americans can make it again in a world gone selfish and corporate. These men of YTB are about supporting "the losers" and helping the little guy to finally win! Opportunity Knocks. Anyone Home?"
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