As a young husband and father, Kerry Messer took an active and public stand against pornography. Employed in a “blue collar” job, his employers tried to dissuade him from his righteous activity. Kerry’s response: “You do what you have to do … and I’ll do what I have to do.”
Kerry was fired from his job, lost his south St. Louis house, moved his wife and children to a rather primitive house (no indoor plumbing) on the family farm an hour south of St. Louis…and continued doing the right things. (They now have indoor plumbing!) Wife Lynn was his stalwart in support.
Motivated by the passion of a Biblical world view, in 1985 Kerry became a lobbyist in the Missouri Legislature for traditional and Biblical values. He founded the “Missouri Family Network” (www.missourifamilynetwork.net), which for years has been helpful to those concerned with righteous values, especially as they pertain to public policy and legislation. It is also a great help to legislators desiring to do the right thing.
In order that the Internal Revenue Service cannot penalize him on the positions taken by the Missouri Family Network, Kerry has refused his MFN becoming a 501©(3) organization for tax purposes.
One notable example of the impact of his life and work of Kerry Messer: during the days of the release of the famous movie, “The Passion of the Christ”, in 2006 two Missouri churches financed the rental of a Jefferson City, MO theater near the Missouri State Capitol Building, the workplace of the Missouri legislature. Kerry went to each state Senator and Representative … or to his or her Capitol office … and invited them to the special showing of “The Passion of the Christ,” providing them the time and place.
Even some legislative committees adjusted their schedules in response … and between 100 and 120 legislators attended the showing of the movie about the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ!
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