EP 207 ”From Bars to Babe’s” Gene McGuire, Chaplain for Babe’s Chicken Dinner House

In this episode, Jay Dan and Jessa take their time with announcements and have some fun. They do shout outs, show baptisms pictures, talk about breakfast Bible study, the ranch, the new truck, the new grill, and we show a video of Shannon Marshall, who was released in November of 2024, skydiving.

 

We address the recent “call out” from Real Vida podcast and their challenge in the corn hole tournament coming up.

 

Jessa tells some dad jokes and Jay Dan share a small devotion “The Screw in the Shoe”

 

Then we sit down with the current Chaplain of Babe’s Chicken Dinner House.

 

In 1977, at only 17 years old, Gene McGuire’s time living in freedom came to an end. He was one of three people that took part in a late-night bar robbery. His cousin, one of the men, fatally stabbed the bar owner. On the basis of a second-degree murder charge, Gene received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Nearly ten years later, Gene had a Christ-transformation after becoming influential in the prison culture.

 

Then after serving almost 35 years, a shocking miracle happened. On April, 3, 2012, at Wyoming County Courtroom in Pennsylvania, Judge Russell D. Shurtleff had made the decision that Gene was wrongfully convicted. With his life sentence reversed, he was released a free man – no parole.

His inspiring journey from being imprisoned for life to being set free by the power of God’s love, forgiveness, and freedom gives everyone hope. He is an advocate for the community, a speaker, and the author of Unshackled: From Ruins to Redemption.

 

Gene serves as Chaplain for Babe’s Chicken and other restaurants owned by Paul Vinyard. He shares with his testimony and the gospel of Jesus, with all the staff for the Vinyard family, as well as the other two restaurants they own, Bubba’s Cook Country, and Sweetie Pie’s Ribeyes.

 

Check out Gene on Facebook for all his latest speaking engagements.

 

Visit his website:

https://genemcguire.org/

 

Order his book:

https://a.co/d/golLUUk

 

Order Forgiven Felons or Background Check Merch:

https://www.forgivenfelons.org/shop

 

To learn more FORGIVEN RANCH we are developing now:

https://youtu.be/za53kDdhQlY?si=8UelY6l3_ykLwf0I