‘The Church will never die’: Convert evangelizes through his YouTube series

If you had told Jonathan Cheek when he attended his first Mass that in a few years’ time, his whole family would be Catholic and he would be filming a YouTube series about the faith, he wouldn’t have believed you. Cheek has worked at Arkansas Nuclear One since 2008, the same year he married his wife Jessica. Together, they have two daughters, Presley, 12, and Peyton, 10. Jessica grew up Methodist, and Jonathan began attending church with a friend in college. But growing up, Jonathan didn’t attend church. “One of the reasons we didn’t go to church on Sundays was because Dad wanted to work in the yard, work on our race cars, work on other stuff. Work was how I made it through college. I didn’t have a backup plan. I didn’t have anybody paying for it,” he said. As Jonathan and his wife started a family, he realized he wanted to lead his family in faith — but that meant he had a lot to learn. “As soon as I had a break from a shift at work, I would wake up at 1 and 2 in the morning to study the Bible for hours before work,” he said. Jonathan was determined to figure
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