INTERVIEW: Joel Engle Growing Through Change
September 2nd, 2006 | 
Interviews | Source: Brio Magazine (14)
With the shaky beginning Joel Engle experienced in life, it’d be easy to imagine him living on the streets or involved in crime by now. You see, Joel didn’t grow up in a two-parent home. His dad left when Joel was a month old. So when his mother died of a massive stroke when Joel was 11, he had to leave all that was familiar to him in San Francisco and move to Oklahoma to live with his grandparents — his only immediate family in the United States.
“My mom would stand over my bed each night and say, ‘I love you more and more every day,’ ” Joel says. “She’d kiss me on the forehead, and I’d go to sleep. We did that as usual one night, and the next morning I woke up at 7:27, walked in the kitchen and found her lying facedown. She’d told me if anything ever happened to call the ambulance. I called, and she was taken to the hospital.” [ …read more]
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