I was saved as a 9 year old boy at the old Lockland Baptist Church in 1954.  We attended church just on Sunday mornings so I never really grew as a Christian.  I quit high school at the age of 17 and didn't go to church more then 3 or 4 times until I was almost 23.

God begin to deal with my heart and the way I was living, and in spring of 1967 I surrendered my life.  Went to a revival at FBC where B.R. Lakin was preaching. It was the first time ever that I remember being in church every night of the week.  It wasn't long before I was teaching s.s. and singing in the choir.  God called me to preach that summer, and I left that August for Midwestern Baptist College.  There I met my wife Becky and we were married in August of 1968.  In my 31 years of ministry I have pastored 4 churches taught in Bible College.  I surrendered to missions in 1986.  I join BPS in 1994. Becky had taught 18 years in Christian schools before joining the secretary staff at BPS.