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Testimony

I grew up in a Christian home in Quinter where both of my parents taught in the local schools. My parents were members of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, which was a rural church twenty miles north of town. It was there I made my first public profession of my need for Christ as my Savior at about eight or nine years old. In high school I lived a morally clean lifestyle thanks to the grace of God and parents who gave me a great deal of time and attention.

It was during a week of Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp in Colorado that God began to show me much more about what it meant to be a true Christian. I became aware that God was calling me into full-time Christian service. Even though I knew only some elementary things about the Bible and how to live the Christian life I sensed that God wanted me to live differently than even my closest friends from high school and pursue a college that could teach me about Christ, the Bible and helping others come to know Him.

I chose Ottawa University, which was the Baptist college my father had attended as a freshman. It was here God began to develop my life as a disciple of Jesus Christ. The first several months were very challenging spiritually as I was facing temptations I had never faced before. I realized that most of my personal righteousness had been based on respect for my parents and their spiritual beliefs.

I was involved on the Campus Crusade for Christ leadership team for two years at Ottawa. I had grown a lot in those two years but was still living a life that frustrated both me and was unpleasing to the Lord. My junior in college I became involved in a Navigator's Bible study with other students, which was led by one of the college staff. I learned how to have a time of daily worship with the Lord, to memorize and meditate on Scripture verses, to do personal Bible study and to consistently obey the commandments of Christ as my Lord.

I graduated and moved to Lawrence and worked in a secular job during weekdays while ministering with the Navigator's collegiate ministry evenings and weekends. It was while working with the Navigator's at the University of Kansas that I met Debbie Jackson, who later became my wife.

In January of 1976 we moved to Denver where I attended Denver Seminary. I worked as a youth pastor at one church and then left after the senior pastor retired and a new younger pastor took over. I then became youth pastor at another church and led discipleship Bible Study for businessmen before work. In January of 1980 I began as pastor of First Baptist Church in Newcastle, Wyoming where I stayed for five and a half years.

In August of 1985 I started as minister of outreach and discipleship at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Jamestown, NY. After another 5 years God led us into the Evangelical Free Church as church-planters in Hays. In 1994 I began with KPRD when it first started broadcasting here in Midwest Kansas.

In the last twelve hears I have preached in a number of churches in our broadcasting area. My wife and I are involved with the Wheels for the World Ministry and the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Debbie and I have two children. Mark who was born in 1978 and Sarah who was born two years later.