I didn’t draw any new cartoons for a few years. After a while, I became discouraged with drawing the cartoons, and they all went into a box under the bed in our guest room. I was only able to tell a few churches about the cartoons. I tried contacting other churches through the mail, but that proved to be very difficult. I then thought of sharing the cartoons, which by this time were called Joyful ‘toons (so named by my wife Marilyn), with other churches, but I didn’t know how to do it. After that, ideas for other cartoons started coming to me, and they became a regular feature of the church bulletin. I noticed that the back page of the weekly bulletin at my church was often blank, so I approached the pastor with the idea of using my cartoons to fill that space, and he agreed to my proposal. Not long after, an idea for a second cartoon came to me. I have always loved drawing cartoons, and one day the idea came to me for a cartoon that would illustrate the relationship between faith and grace. I began drawing cartoons based on Bible verses in the 1990’s. Today I live in Keystone Heights, Florida with my wonderful wife Marilyn, to whom I am very grateful for all of her help and support in this cartoon project. The Lord has been with me every day since then. I became a member of God’s family that day. My parents, Duane and Karen Waters, attended Riverview United Methodist Church when I was a boy, and it was there, on a Fall morning in 1970, in a Sunday School classroom, that I accepted Jesus as Lord. I was born in 1961 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
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