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I'm 57 years old . I have a wife and 4 kids and 6 grand children . I found the lord about one year ago . Back in the 70s I played in a rock band . I had not played in 30 years when the praise team leader ask me to play bass . The lord took a hand full of dirt and made a bass player . As long as it is Christian music I'll play . I prefer CCM . I spend most of my time in the word or playing bass . Anyone close to me that looking to play come on . I'm retired so time is something I have a lot of . Thanks for reading Doug .

Computers, Guitar Playing, Service, Ministry/Callings, Theology, Parenting, Restaurants, Church, Music - Listening, Music- Playing

Jack Bruce, New song, Ron Carter, Third Day, Audio Adrenaline, Freddie Washington, In no special order . Everyone that taught me spiritually or Musically, Just made me feel closer to God, Nathan East, Paul Baloche, Todd Agnew, Norm Stockton, Stanley Clarke, Ray Brown

My first memory is seeing my father in a casket . I was four at the time . Over the years my mother married three more times . Each stepfather was just a little worse than the last . The last one liked to beat on me just because he thought that my mom saw my dad in me . He had a very bad jealously problem . As I got older the beatings got worse . Between the ages of 14 and 17 I was a run away or in jail . The week before my 17th birthday a judge gave me the choice between the army or the Columbus institution for boys .

I went in to the army on my seventeenth birthday . First I went to Germany then to Viet Nam . It is said that there are no atheist on the battle field that’s probably true . I didn’t find God on the battle field I just learned to hate him .It was then that I started doing drugs .

When I got out of the army I became a homeless vet . Doing drugs was a part of my every day routine . Some of the churches in the major cities would rent space for a meal for the homeless , The only catch was you had to listen to them talk about God and being saved . Then they would let you eat . One night I felt the presents Of the Lord . I talked to the people their and they invited me to their church . They gave me a little money to get cleaned up and gave me a new testament called Good News for Modern Man . When I got to the church they ask me to speak so I did . I told them that I was a recovering drug addict . I was ask how long I had been clean I said one day and they ask me to leave at once . Back to the drugs .

I went to work at what ever until I had enough money to buy a large quantity of drugs to start dealing . I had only one rule I did not sell to kids . All of a sudden I had money lots of money . No longer did I live on the street I had a nice apartment and things I wanted . It was then I bought my first electric bass . All I did for the next two years was play the bass four or five hours a day . I made a deal with Satan to play his music and follow his ways . This means that I broke all 10 commandments , was a racist , Womanizer , and all ways looking to hurt some one . Found my first band and went on the road . I was still doing drugs but not dealing any more . Music was my life for the next seven years .


Marriage was some thing I wanted , It pretty well stopped my music . I led a bikers life style for a few years . In that time my first son died . He was three days old . I didn’t go to church at the time and the funeral home contacted two pastors to speak . The last pastor said that if I had lead a Christian life my son would not have died . My friends caught me just before I would have killed him .

After a divorce I fell into a deep depression . The people I was around were all Viet Nam vets . One night they got me drunk and stoned . When I woke up I was in a Veterans hospital . The doctors said I had post traumatic stress disorder . The next two years I was in different mental wards as the doc’s feed me more pills . When I told them I was hearing a voice in my head they found a drug to stop it .When they let me out I was so drugged that I had no feelings . Numb body mind and soul .

The V.A. rated me 100% disabled . Still on drugs this time legal . I married Sherry my wife today . I was her body guard and she was my nurse .After a few years our son started going to church with his wife . When He started to preach we went to listen to him . I was still too out of it for anything to happen .

For some unknown reason I started to stop taking the drugs from the V.A. . Slowly my mind and body started to come back . I started to read the Bible . God gave me so much . First I realized the many times that I had tried to kill myself He had stopped it from happing . You could not call these attempts a cry for help no details but I tried . The doctors told me I had hepaticas C ,three months later they could not understand why they could not find it . Next they told me I was going blind , four months later it was gone . Some how I lost 50 lb. quit smoking and drinking . Then I had a tumor on my brain . The doc’s ran four test and told me maybe they could operate . The fifth scan it was no longer their . Then the voice that the doctors made go away with drugs came back . He gave me back His music . The best gift that God gave me was my family . Isn’t God Great . On Aug 3 , 06 I went to the alter to ask for help with my finances . The words that came out of my mouth were of excepting Jesus Christ as my Savor being reborn not of money . Theirs been so many little things that it would be hard to list them all . I’m just a humble sinner . I don’t know why God loves me , just that he does .
Your Brother in Christ . Doug

Anyone who will put up with me