Because it’s audio, children over the years have imagined what each character might look like. Our organization produces a children’s theatrical audio series called Adventures In Odyssey. What a peaceful experience! How has PRS benefited you, your organization, and others? Everything else seemed to get tuned out as the words from the bible clearly resonated through the conference room. Then, the scripture readings began, and it was as if we were in an “oasis” in the middle of what is normally a chaotic city. People from many different offices began to show up in the conference room to participate in PRS. We were meeting in the New York Times building on a top floor where you could see the busyness of New York City all around. He is also a regular panelist for The Washington Post/Newsweek blog, “On Faith.My “a-ha” moment came the very first time I attended PRS in Manhattan. weekdays on Liberty’s Victory FM.ĭaly is the author of two books, “Finding Home” and “Stronger.” He has been a guest on several television programs, including “Larry King Live,” Fox News Channel’s “America Live with Megyn Kelly” and “ABC World News Tonight,” and has been featured by Newsweek and USA Today. He is the host of Focus on the Family’s popular daily radio broadcast, which has more than 2.9 million listeners tuning in on more than 1,000 radio stations nationwide. He cares for you, He loves you and He wants you to succeed.”ĭaly lives with his wife, Jean, and two sons in Colorado Springs, Colo. “I think children show us God’s love in his heart for us, like a father for his child. He said God told him, “I have given you every family type to experience.”ĭaly encouraged students to “yield to God” their will just as a child would go to their parents for help. James Dobson named Daly as president.ĭaly said originally he did not feel worthy of the position because he did not come from a “perfect family.”īut after spending much time in prayer, he realized that by God’s grace, what he had endured prepared him to lead one of the largest ministries that reaches out to families all over the world. He served as vice president of the division from 1997 until 2004, when he was appointed to chief operating officer. In 1992 he was promoted to field director for Asia, Africa, and Australia in the International Division. He said the Bible tells us: “God is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18).Įventually all his brothers and sisters came to know Christ he learned later that his mother had received Christ just 24 hours before her death.ĭaly worked in the private sector for a Fortune 500 company before joining Focus on the Family in 1989 as assistant to the president. It was during high school, when his football coach sponsored him to go to a Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp, that he began a relationship with Jesus Christ.ĭaly said although he did not have trusting adults in his childhood, he learned his loving, Heavenly Father would always be there for him. After some time he knew that this environment was too much for him, so when he was 12, he went to live with his older brother. Overwhelmed by grief, hardship and dysfunction in that home, he said many times the school nurse would find him outside crying.ĭaly eventually moved back in with his biological father who continued heavy drinking. “My mom was my everything to me.”Īfter his mother’s death, Daly went into foster care. “I did not have a Christian family, but my mom taught us the Golden Rule,” Daly said. When Daly was 8, his mother died of cancer and, during the funeral, his stepfather sold all of their furniture, then left. In his first visit to Liberty University, Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family, shared with students at Wednesday’s convocation about how God brought him from a tragic childhood to become the leader of a global Christian organization that ministers to families.ĭaly, the youngest of five, was 5 years old when his mother left his father due to his father’s alcoholism and abuse.
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