The Family That Doesn’t Exist by Grampa Lamb

The first Social  Security numbers were issued in mid-November 1936 near the end of the Great Depression to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. They were assured that the welfare system was a drastic but temporary measure to end the economic crisis, and that the numbers would not be used for identification purposes.

Truman Lamb, father of thirteen, would have benefitted from the extra financial help. But he knew better than to believe in government promises. Instead he entrusted his family’s well-being to God. He packed his family into a bus, began homeschooling them years before it would be legalized, and preached the Gospel to any church that would receive his family.

This collection of stories is about his children, renegades and outlaws, who endured through doubt and disbelief. While some thought them to be in a niche bubble, they felt as if they were in the hand of God and witnessed miracles. They were gifted with courage and creativity, and found that  anything is possible if you sincerely believe and walk in faith.

And so began the legacy of the family that doesn’t exist even to this day.