Early Life
Stair was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was ordained a Methodist minister, but left organized religion, stating "I just call myself a Christian." He moved to the South in the 1950s, saying that God had told him to move there because it would be "the safest place for Christians in the end time."
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