The Moon Brothers

By Minister Bandit One Glove

I asked God to fulfill the words he spoke to my heart long ago as a 5 year old child. Before I was revived from drowning, God said:
When you are older and come to me asking for Father John? If I cannot get you to him, then I will get him to you.
Sure enough, the day came when I asked God to get me to Father John and the Church in the feed store.
Soon after, I heard Joel Osteen tell of a woman asking God for a rainbow on her wedding day and he gave her not 1 but 2.
I asked God.
If this is really Father Johns Son and you really are doing all of this then Please God. Sometime in the next couple of days, would you give me two rainbows?
2 days later I pulled over and took this picture from the truck I was driving, just before the 2nd rainbow faded away.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: May 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504354066

Minister Bandit One Glove

Ordained Minister, Bandit One Glove; is a child of Almighty God who traveled America from Lakewood International Outreach Center, leaving in 1962, whose parents Fostered children for witness protection, he has aided Victorious Recoveries of countless people affected by Human Trafficking, Spousal and Parental abuse, Attempted Suicide, Drug Addiction, Alcoholism, PTSD, Depression, Etc. after working as a teenage Runaway Counselor in his own Mother’s Halfway House from 1970 to 1980. As the Grandson of a Texas Ranger in John Osteen's Church, he detested cruelty and violence. Finding when he was protecting children from bullies, God either sent him an Angel of mercy or gave him power surpassing understanding. One fateful day in 1966 God gave him both. This Angel of mercy later became THE KING OF POP. God uses Ordinary People in Extraordinary Ways!

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Balboa Press rev. date: 05/19/2016

CONTENTS

Epigraph

Opal's Epigraph

Bandit's Epigraph

Epigraph

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

One - You Are Exactly Who God Made You To Be

Two - Keep Your Eye On Your Dream

Three - When The Enemy Attacks

Four - Be Kind Especially To The Enemy

Five - Waiting For The United States Of America's Year Of Maturity

Six - Love Never Dies

Seven - Let Adversity Excite You And Live To Help Others

Eight - Make Your Dignity Your Legacy

Date August 9th 2015

Dear Dodie,

Please may I have your permission to use your names in my book?

I would greatly appreciate suggestions or endorsement on me and my mother's true legacy's.

My mother and father left Houston in the very early 1960's

I spoke my first sentence inspired by Pastor. John Osteen who I knew as Father John.

I still remember him putting his hand on my shoulder so gently and saying how much faith he had in me.

Telling how he could see in my facial expressions that I understood him even though I had not spoken a full sentence.

That story and more is in my book.

I was especially happy to see you still alive Dodie, last night at the AT&T center.

I will always feel like you are all a connection to my late mother and father.

God Bless you and I love your whole family.

Sincerely, MEH

Dear Bandit-One-Glove,

Thank you for your letter regarding your request to mention Dodie Osteen in your book. We are able to grant permission for you to reference the name, Dodie Osteen as it pertains to the story you described in your letter which we have attached above.

Thank you again for your request. Congratulations on the progress of your book! We pray with you that it touches many lives for His glory!

Copyright Department

Lakewood Church/Joel Osteen Ministries

3700 Southwest Freeway

Houston, TX 77027

EPIGRAPH

This book is dedicated to my Mother Opal,

Who had a way of getting the best a person had in them to come out.

She was gentle and kind to everyone and always knew just the right thing to say.

She was the wind beneath the wings of everyone she came in contact with.

Her memory guides me to this very moment, like an ever lingering presence.

I believe that from the time her Mother Nellie left us, Opal was this families

deepest connection to God, until she went to be with the lord.

I feel honored for God to have blessed me with her as my Mother.

OPAL'S EPIGRAPH

T his is an excerpt from the book written in 2006 for Opal's family descendants in reflection of her memories of events involving the ancestors she knew. She hoped it would get me started writing my autobiography. That I would someday be able to add it to my series of books and many of our descendants after me would continue in suite. Thank You For Your Faith In Me Mom! Thank You For Your Faith In All Of Us! Her book is yet to be published at the time of this publication. I hope to publish it soon after my first successful publication.

"Show this to your children and grandchildren. This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1906. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906: ************** The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower! The average wage in the US. was .22 cents per hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200.⁰⁰ and $400.⁰⁰ per year . A competent accountant could expect to earn $2,000.⁰⁰ per year, a dentist $2,500.⁰⁰ per year, a veterinarian between $1,500.⁰⁰ and $4,000.⁰⁰ per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000.⁰⁰ per year. More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at HOME. Ninety percent of all U.S. doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as substandard. Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee was fifteen cents a pound. Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.

The Five leading causes of death in the US were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke. The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't! been admitted to the Union yet. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was only 30!!!! Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea, hadn't been invented yet. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. Two out of every 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6% of all Americans had graduated from high school. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health. (Shocking? DUH!) 18% of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic help. There had been about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A. !

Now I forwarded this from, someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you and others all over the United States, possibly the world, in a matter of seconds!

Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years. ?? IT STAGGERS THE MIND, EH...."

BANDIT'S EPIGRAPH

Y our Purpose is Greater than your Pain. Don't let your Pain distract you from the Purpose that God has on your life. There is something greater in you, a Destiny pull that is calling you to emerge out of your pain into your Purpose.

"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is achieving for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:17-18)

Now the year is 2016. My mother who wrote that book for our family passed away in 2009 two months before her first undocumented Foster child, my Foster Brother, who later became world famous. He was raised by a religious family. His parents believed in roots. However, they had a dream of making it big in show business, which in those days meant they had to do whatever it took to be where the show was. This is the reason, when I met him before his 8th birthday, his early childhood was already filled with memories of traveling from show to show, leaving friends behind. He told of how the only pet he had ever had, was a pet rat. A few years later he was fortunate enough to Star in a motion picture I believe was tailored after this childhood memory of his pet.

The adventures in this traveling had made him learn to cherish peace and detest violence which he had seen too much of already. However, the first time he was forced to use his own fighting skills learned from Karate and Ballet lessons, was the day after we met. He fought to save my life, because he knew I was standing up to save his life and to stop the terror of him and many other children by a vicious pack of bullies.

Expelled from school to cover up the teaching staffs denial of any knowledge pertaining to the prior violence, the two of us took the blame, to save those teachers families from Gang retaliation by the parents of the pack. There had been a history of people disappearing, who had stood up to these bullies in the past.

Literally overnight, my soon to be Foster Brother, had become a child soldier to save my life, and then was exposed to secrets I had recently discovered about my parents covert double life as undercover agents in law enforcement. This Foster experience led to our eligibility for witness protection. Yes there was another, but you'll have to buy the next book for that! Ha Ha Ha.

The trauma we endured, brought us closer to God and was felt by children who clung to him just like they did to me all of our lives.

Our adventures were kept from the public and our families for their safety. But, many who knew my mother, father and myself as well, have known the truth about my Foster Brother and I for several years. Especially after the conspiracy made up against me in the 1990's by a School district where I worked, when scared Bikers flooded their office personnel with false propaganda trying to prevent my past leading to discovery of their crimes. The waves of time have washed away their lives like homes in the sand While I stand sturdy with my house built on the rock.

God stopped them all in their tracks when I befriend the local president of the largest Gang on earth/my Cousin In Law, by calling him out to a fight. I think that I had God and the spirit of Joan of Arc on my side that day, just as me and my Foster brother did when we met.

By the 1960s, things were changing much faster than they ever had before, but this country was still far from where we are today. The changes that happened every year, showed a pattern of increase that was easy to see if you had a reason this kind of thing was important to you.

In 1961 The original Lakewood International Outreach Center was still holding services back at the building which had been a feed store.

On the Andy Griffith Show entitled Mayberry Goes Hollywood First aired on 01/02/1961, we learned that the character Floyd the Barber, first started cutting hair by practicing on cats in the neighborhood as a kid and that Orville, the Local Mortician was also the local TV repair man. I for one, was hopeful that he wouldn't get mixed up about which box he was supposed to be working on. I loved seeing his TV antenna's arrive special delivery in that long black Hearse. I couldn't help but wonder if those antenna's got any extra sensory reception.

The cost of a first-class stamp had leaped to a whopping 5 cents and from what I was hearing said by the adults and teachers I knew, it was an outrage.

By 1966 we were sending people into outer space. Low and behold, it was just a matter of a few years before we sent a man to the Moon.

The first Star Trek episode, The Man Trap, was broadcast on September 8. The plot concerned a creature that sucked salt from human bodies. Considering the content of what is on our store shelves today? Our Cardiologists might call him a miracle creature! Bless his Salt sucking Heart. LOL

The Record of the Year was: A Taste of Honey, By Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. The Album of the Year was: September of My Years, by Frank Sinatra (Reprise)The Song of the Year was: The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme From The Sandpiper), Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel, were the songwriters.

On January 13: Robert C. Weaver became the first African American Cabinet member, by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

On January 18: About 8,000 U.S. soldiers landed in South Vietnam; U.S. troops now total 190,000.

On March 4: The Beatles: In an interview published in The London Evening Standard, John Lennon commented, We're more popular than Jesus now, Eventually, sparking a controversy in the United States. The public got upset when you made fun of Jesus back then. For a while recently, the public got upset when you said his name in schools. Personally, I'm glad to see he is making a comeback.

On March 8, in 1966, the U.S. announced it would substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.

On March 26th, Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War.

On April 29, there were a total of 250,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam and By this time, I was Homeschooling my way through the third grade to protect my teachers and school from gang retaliation along with my parents first, of two witness protected and undocumented Foster Children. This first one however, would eventually become 3 times as rich and famous as Elvis Presley.

On May 16 - In New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his first public speech on the Vietnam War.

On May 28 -- Fidel Castro declares martial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.

On June 2 -- Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.

June 5 -- Gemini 9: Gene Cernan completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes).

June 13 -- Miranda v. Arizona: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them

June 29 -- Vietnam War: U.S. planes begin bombing Hanoi and