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A look back

What personal strengths do I presently have due to positive experiences and good people in my past?

Love for God and the Church. I went to church as a lad at 7 years of age and enjoyed it. I went to vacation Bible School and loved to answer the questions to the lessons. The Sunday School teachers were also Boy Scout leaders so I attended the troop also. I became a faithful attender and continued to go to this church until I went away to college. I went on Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, Wednesday evenings for supper, visitation, prayer, choir practice, and boy scouts.

Leadership - Children attending schools that I went to also attended the Boy Scouts, so we became good friends. I was also an achiever at school and when I went to college I continued to stay involved in church life and Christian Student Life. I was on the Baptist Student Union committees and spent summers as a Christian Missionary and Youth Leader for area churches.

Academics and early work - I graduated from college and was called to ministry so I enrolled and graduated from SWBTS with a Masters in Divinity. I did an internship at the Baptist Hospital as a chaplain and saw social workers involved there. I married my high school sweetheart who I met at church and we served together at our first job at a homeless ministry at First Baptist Church San Antonio, Texas. The minister there encouraged me to take Social Work classes and when I was prevented by the school to continue part-time education, My wife and I moved to the Baptist Children’s home to work and live and I finished my Masters in Social Work. While I worked as a music minister on Sundays at Central Baptist Church, one of my choir members introduced me to financial planning so I became licensed in Insurance and Real Estate. Eventually, an opening became available at the Bexar County Hospital so I became a Social Worker on the medical floors and emergency room. When my wife enrolled in her doctorate in Denton, I continued to work in rehabilitation at the county hospital in Dallas until I received the advanced clinical practitioner designation as a social worker. I continued to work as a social worker while I applied to law schools. I was accepted at South Texas College of Law and became an attorney in 1995. I married my second wife in 1993 and I adopted my son in 1996 when he was two days old.

A family man-I developed a pattern of spending an hour with my son every morning when he woke up and an hour with him prior to bedtime. I dedicated my weekends to my family all day Saturday and half of a day on Sundays. When my son was 3, I began to coach him in basketball and baseball. I introduced him to swim team and gymnastics, piano, drama, drums, guitar, choir, archery, bowling and until the 4^th grade he was always on the honor roll at school. Even after my second divorce, I volunteered at my son’s school for fund raisers, bicycle safety day, and field trips. I went to his school twice a month to eat lunch with him and once a month for breakfast. By the Grace of God, I never missed a visitation schedule with him nor a child support payment.

Self-employed Attorney- I spent my last year in law school clerking for a Christian, Judge John Devine. He introduced me to a Christian Attorney, Jack Cagle, for whom I worked for a year but when he lost his bid to become a judge, had to reduce his overhead and I began solo practice. He later was appointed to a judgeship and has been regularly elected thereafter. These men taught me that their was a Christian mission to the law practice and I have done over a 1000 hours of pro bono work for the body of Christ. I have defended Christians and non-Christians and few clients have not heard or seen the Word of God from my lips as I endeavor to live the Scriptures. Gotta Tell Somebody, Don Francisco

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