Welcome! Thank you in taking the time in visiting our website. My hope is that you will be encouraged and inspired as you read through my bio. I just want to give you a heads up, what your about to read is more about someone else than me. Its more about someone who has impacted my life,so much so, that He altered my future. His influence and counsel lead me to where I am today. He is the reason for my story, my future and my hope. Check it out...
"As a teenager, I responded to an invitation to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior at the age of 14, while attending Bensalem Baptist Church under the Pastoral Leadership of Pastor Parr. I remember having a special, unexplainable excitement in what just took place. My life was anything but normal with an alcoholic, abusive father and a mentally ill mother (God brought healing to my father and my mother is now with the Lord with a new body and mind).
Yet now, I have this incredible peace. I remember walking home from school one day, with a friend and sharing the Gospel. We talked for over an hour. He asked questions and I gave the answers. I was "fresh" in my new found relationship with Jesus Christ and His doctrine, yet He gave ME the answers to the questions! Amazing! This is where, I believe, God chose me to preach His Word to this world. He filled me with His Holy Spirit, which enabled me to speak His words to that young kid that day, and now,God continues to speak through me."
My first encounter with the Holy Spirit, at the age of 14, lead to many times where God spoke through me and too me. Times of healing and encouragement as well as times of conviction and repentance. But now in my rebellious young adult years I started down the path of "striking it out on my own" away from God. But God's plan for my life remained the same and out of His love and grace He allowed me to experience some hardships. I came from a large family of eight with little money and, as I mentioned earlier, an alcoholic, abusive, angry father as well as a mother who was in and out of mental hospitals. I married at the young age of 20 and had a child at the age of twenty one. Still dealing with hardships and now trying to build a new life with my family was a very difficult task.
Prior to this, my life was sliding away from God and more towards serving my flesh. The pressures of life, a wife, a child and running a business were building. I already had problems with anger and lacked any emotions to meet the needs of my wife, so our marriage got off to a very rocky start. I turned to alcohol and became a work alcoholic as well, to deal with the mounting pressures.
To make a long story short,God brought me to my knees and I started reading my Bible again and attended a good bible teaching church. My spiritual health was restored and the walls I had built up to protect me as a child, came down! I was a man, who did not feel any emotion and now have feelings of empathy, sympathy, sorrow and compassion. A man who never shed a tear, now weep's in brokenness and celebration. A man who had a problem with anger became gentle and kind. A man who was selfish and self-centered became a servant of others. A marriage that was heading for divorce was restored. A father who saw nothing but faults in his children began to see them as blessings from the Lord. Jesus Christ brings healing and restores lives and I am a very blessed man as He allowed these things to take place, which formed the man I am today. God's presence is truly around my family and I see Him in everything, when I am walking in the spirit. And, when I'm not, His grace is more than sufficient."