John Kershaw has what he considers five diplomas; one from Olympic College, one from Central Washington University, one from The Evergreen State College, one from a four-year Boilermaker Apprenticeship and last but not least an Honorable Discharge from the United States Army as a combat medic. John does not want to be remembered as a "man of letters" but as a Sunday School Teacher and when he runs out of the twenty-nine Parables of Jesus Christ, he says he will write his own to get the point across; to help our teenagers to learn how to dream and he refuses to accept the word quit in his vocabulary.