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Dexter Jones is from Cartersville, Georgia. His grandfather bought 15 farming acres nearby and bought more land later. Dexter’s father worked for the Department of Labor for 30 years, painting and farming on the side. Dexter’s father coached him in baseball and was a good male role model to Dexter and other kids in the community. Dexter got to know all his grandparents and uncles. They all farmed and they were good influences on him. He spent summer days with his grandparents while his father worked. Dexter didn’t push his grandfathers’ “buttons.” He had respect for them.
Dexter tries to be an influence on his nephew as his uncles and grandparents were. Dexter played ball and his uncles were at every ball game. He felt like a rock star. For the past 10 years, Dexter has committed himself to mentoring kids that don’t have fathers or male role models in their lives.
Dexter grew up hunting with his grandparents and uncles. It was a special fellowship he had with them. Kids need to have a dad or male role model to be with them.Jim talks about what defines a man and the characteristics of Jesus.
Dexter gave his life to Christ in 1993, after a seven-year battle with drug addiction. He could not stop the addiction on his own but he remembers praying on November 6th of that year, that if God took the desire away, he would live for God. He looks back on the life he missed and that’s why he mentors kids now to help them navigate their way through the teenage struggle and insecurity. He helps others with recovery. He never says he did it on his own. When Dexter allowed God to come in, God delivered him. Dexter never went back to drugs. Restoring his life was a process but quitting drugs was instantaneous.Dexter recalls how he got involved in addiction. In his sophomore year, he saw all the popular kids trying marijuana and he wanted that popularity. He went wild. He lost his sports eligibility. He went to summer school and got back on track and was back in baseball his junior year. But he still had insecurity issues. He was always trying to fit in somewhere he didn’t belong. He dropped out of the baseball team for the last two games of his senior year. That summer, 1989, Dexter went “wild-wild.” On New Year’s Eve going into 1990, he tried cocaine. For four years after that, he was on cocaine. When he saw how it was ruining his life, He turned to God.Dexter quotes Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Dexter’s mother and grandmother had taught him the word of God, and the word of God lived in his heart, even in his addiction. When he had had enough of addiction, he felt to call on God for deliverance and give himself to Jesus Christ. God delivered him from addiction after seven years of drug use. That was on a Friday night. He had continued to go to church, so that Sunday, he went up to the altar, cried, and confessed he wanted to be saved. He was filled with the Spirit. That same day, a drug-using friend called him to come over. Dexter said, no, he was done, and not to call him to do drugs again. That friend respected him, but is still on the “merry-go-round,” struggling with drugs.
This past month, Dexter has been saved, filled with the Holy Spirit for 27 years. In the beginning, he was the youngest person of his acquaintance who was saved. Dexter had always had a great relationship with his mother, but when he got saved, they became comrades. She continued teaching him the Word that he still uses today.Dexter got a new job in 1995 and is still friends with his coworkers from then.Dexter talks about the first time he heard God, as a teen. He was smoking behind the gym and he heard God tell him, “I am going to use you.” Dexter was not ready for that and he spiritually ran from God toward more drug use. He had to find his way back to God through loss. He lost his mother in 2004 and his father in 2014. Dexter started looking for his purpose before God. He had started mentoring kids five years earlier. In 2014, he realized that was his purpose. He started a non-profit geared to help young men who have no father or male role model, navigate the teenage years.
Dexter says people run from God because of fear. But the only way to defeat the Goliaths in your life is by facing them with a sling.Jim admires Dexter’s courage in coming on the podcast and talking about his failures. He has had men back out of talking on the podcast because of fear. Everybody makes mistakes. Let’s admit it. Dexter quotes Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Use the word of testimony. Your failures are a bridge for someone to get over.
Dexter says now that he is older he misses his grandparents and uncles, but he says, “once they put those seeds in you, they will never fade away.” You will hear them, what they would do. His uncle Jimmy taught him to love all mankind. The more you get to know a person, the more you love them. Get to know a person for who they are, not the skin color. The older you get, the more you know who your friends are. People who stay with you for years, those are your friends.
Dexter loves the Yankees because their players are so diverse. He doesn’t think there will be divisions in heaven. Some politics annoys him now, but he doesn’t let it overcome his love. In 2021, we’ve got to work on our love.
Dexter reflects on COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic his community faced in 2020. He says God showed us we can’t do anything without Him. Dexter had COVID-19. He lost an uncle to COVID-19 in March, a cousin to a drug overdose, and an uncle to COPD. He knows God has strengthened him. He has a cousin battling alcoholism, who is working to get things right.Dexter started a nonprofit, Gap Fillers, to mentor boys and young men without a father or male role model in their lives. He sees young men who are great athletes and could have been scholar students if their dads had been there to push them. Kids need their dads. The absence of a father leaves a significant wound in a young man.
Dexter is on a couple of boards. Diversity on the Diamond works to get more minority and poor kids involved in baseball. Recovery Bartow/The Arena Recovery Community Organization (RCO) works to help people battling the opioid epidemic. A lot of people have been showing up to meetings for heroin users and met users. Dexter encourages believers to pray for people suffering from addiction and to get involved. We can make 2021 a better place.
Jim invites listeners to be selflessly intentional in service and sharing God’s word. We need to reach out to each other. If you’re a man that needs help, realize you need to ask for help. Men have a hard time discussing their troubles. Don’t be afraid of help. Don’t be afraid to help others.
Call to Action: Jim invites listeners to get out there with great intentionality, moving forward to rectify some of the things that can be corrected. Stop having a defeatist mentality. It’s not too much to change things and they need to be changed.Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and all major platforms, hit that five-star review, subscribe, share it, and help get this word out and look for the next episode.
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Diversity on the Diamond
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Dexter Jones is from Cartersville, Georgia. His grandfather bought 15 farming acres nearby and bought more land later. Dexter’s father worked for the Department of Labor for 30 years, painting and farming on the side. Dexter’s father coached him in baseball and was a good male role model to Dexter and other kids in the community. Dexter got to know all his grandparents and uncles. They all farmed and they were good influences on him. He spent summer days with his grandparents while his father worked. Dexter didn’t push his grandfathers’ “buttons.” He had respect for them.
Dexter tries to be an influence on his nephew as his uncles and grandparents were. Dexter played ball and his uncles were at every ball game. He felt like a rock star. For the past 10 years, Dexter has committed himself to mentoring kids that don’t have fathers or male role models in their lives.
Dexter grew up hunting with his grandparents and uncles. It was a special fellowship he had with them. Kids need to have a dad or male role model to be with them.Jim talks about what defines a man and the characteristics of Jesus.
Dexter gave his life to Christ in 1993, after a seven-year battle with drug addiction. He could not stop the addiction on his own but he remembers praying on November 6th of that year, that if God took the desire away, he would live for God. He looks back on the life he missed and that’s why he mentors kids now to help them navigate their way through the teenage struggle and insecurity. He helps others with recovery. He never says he did it on his own. When Dexter allowed God to come in, God delivered him. Dexter never went back to drugs. Restoring his life was a process but quitting drugs was instantaneous.Dexter recalls how he got involved in addiction. In his sophomore year, he saw all the popular kids trying marijuana and he wanted that popularity. He went wild. He lost his sports eligibility. He went to summer school and got back on track and was back in baseball his junior year. But he still had insecurity issues. He was always trying to fit in somewhere he didn’t belong. He dropped out of the baseball team for the last two games of his senior year. That summer, 1989, Dexter went “wild-wild.” On New Year’s Eve going into 1990, he tried cocaine. For four years after that, he was on cocaine. When he saw how it was ruining his life, He turned to God.Dexter quotes Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Dexter’s mother and grandmother had taught him the word of God, and the word of God lived in his heart, even in his addiction. When he had had enough of addiction, he felt to call on God for deliverance and give himself to Jesus Christ. God delivered him from addiction after seven years of drug use. That was on a Friday night. He had continued to go to church, so that Sunday, he went up to the altar, cried, and confessed he wanted to be saved. He was filled with the Spirit. That same day, a drug-using friend called him to come over. Dexter said, no, he was done, and not to call him to do drugs again. That friend respected him, but is still on the “merry-go-round,” struggling with drugs.
This past month, Dexter has been saved, filled with the Holy Spirit for 27 years. In the beginning, he was the youngest person of his acquaintance who was saved. Dexter had always had a great relationship with his mother, but when he got saved, they became comrades. She continued teaching him the Word that he still uses today.Dexter got a new job in 1995 and is still friends with his coworkers from then.Dexter talks about the first time he heard God, as a teen. He was smoking behind the gym and he heard God tell him, “I am going to use you.” Dexter was not ready for that and he spiritually ran from God toward more drug use. He had to find his way back to God through loss. He lost his mother in 2004 and his father in 2014. Dexter started looking for his purpose before God. He had started mentoring kids five years earlier. In 2014, he realized that was his purpose. He started a non-profit geared to help young men who have no father or male role model, navigate the teenage years.
Dexter says people run from God because of fear. But the only way to defeat the Goliaths in your life is by facing them with a sling.Jim admires Dexter’s courage in coming on the podcast and talking about his failures. He has had men back out of talking on the podcast because of fear. Everybody makes mistakes. Let’s admit it. Dexter quotes Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Use the word of testimony. Your failures are a bridge for someone to get over.
Dexter says now that he is older he misses his grandparents and uncles, but he says, “once they put those seeds in you, they will never fade away.” You will hear them, what they would do. His uncle Jimmy taught him to love all mankind. The more you get to know a person, the more you love them. Get to know a person for who they are, not the skin color. The older you get, the more you know who your friends are. People who stay with you for years, those are your friends.
Dexter loves the Yankees because their players are so diverse. He doesn’t think there will be divisions in heaven. Some politics annoys him now, but he doesn’t let it overcome his love. In 2021, we’ve got to work on our love.
Dexter reflects on COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic his community faced in 2020. He says God showed us we can’t do anything without Him. Dexter had COVID-19. He lost an uncle to COVID-19 in March, a cousin to a drug overdose, and an uncle to COPD. He knows God has strengthened him. He has a cousin battling alcoholism, who is working to get things right.Dexter started a nonprofit, Gap Fillers, to mentor boys and young men without a father or male role model in their lives. He sees young men who are great athletes and could have been scholar students if their dads had been there to push them. Kids need their dads. The absence of a father leaves a significant wound in a young man.
Dexter is on a couple of boards. Diversity on the Diamond works to get more minority and poor kids involved in baseball. Recovery Bartow/The Arena Recovery Community Organization (RCO) works to help people battling the opioid epidemic. A lot of people have been showing up to meetings for heroin users and met users. Dexter encourages believers to pray for people suffering from addiction and to get involved. We can make 2021 a better place.
Jim invites listeners to be selflessly intentional in service and sharing God’s word. We need to reach out to each other. If you’re a man that needs help, realize you need to ask for help. Men have a hard time discussing their troubles. Don’t be afraid of help. Don’t be afraid to help others.
Call to Action: Jim invites listeners to get out there with great intentionality, moving forward to rectify some of the things that can be corrected. Stop having a defeatist mentality. It’s not too much to change things and they need to be changed.Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and all major platforms, hit that five-star review, subscribe, share it, and help get this word out and look for the next episode.
See our Website: MenBuildMen.comEmail: [email protected]
Marks of a Man on Facebook
Jim Nicklas on Instagram
Dexter Jones on Facebook: @dexter.jones.75
Diversity on the Diamond
Recovery Bartow/The Arena RCO