During his forty years of unsaved living, he was a truck driver who became involved in organized crime which led him to become head of a very large drug organization in 1975.

He became a multi-millionaire in the drug business, but his life was shattered in 1980 when he was arrested for first degree murder and was under the threat of the death penalty for two years. God intervened and brought him from the death penalty to one year in prison. You wil be challenged and encouraged by these brief excerpts from his life story...

Bill Saye's Story

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I was born very poor. My dad made $12.50 a week when I was born. We lived on a 65-acre farm in the very southern part of Fulton County. I was born in 1942 and back in those days the only ones who came to visit us were the Jehovah’s witnesses because we lived so far back. The Mormons could not ride their bicycles that far.

We literally had cracks in the floor. We lived in an old slave home and when we moved there, Mother would go out and cut broom sage down and tie it together to make a broom. She would just sweep stuff out the cracks and the chickens would run under the house.

For the first six years of my life, I didn’t realize we were poor. We did not have anything, so how can you miss it? I was a happy kid for six years.

Listen to me, there is nothing more important on this earth than your family. But don’t you let Satan deceive you into thinking that you can just make one good deal and get out, everything is going to be all right. That is exactly what he tried to do to me. I thought I would make this one deal, but what happens is, there is a vacuum that sucks you down the tubes with it. Your idea is, I will pay off my bills and everything will be okay. We will live happily ever after. Let me share with you how happily ever after I lived.

I made that one deal and our intentions were to pay off our car, buy us all new clothes so we would have decent clothes, but it didn’t work that way. We enjoyed the outdoors, so when I made that first deal, I bought a boat. We didn’t even have bathing suits to wear. So, I had to go make another deal, and before I knew it, I was engulfed in being an organized crime member.

My empire came crashing down around my feet in October of 1980. I was arrested on First-Degree murder charges and was told I would die in the electric chair. I lived under that threat for over 2 years. You can’t imagine what it does to you. You know that one day they are going to sit you in a chair, strap you down, throw a switch, your eyeballs are going to pop out of your head and it is over with. All the money in the world is not worth that. Don’t you think for one minute that it is and if you play with that snake you are going to get bit. You can count on it.