Hi, my name is clay, I am the lead singer for the music ministry "ABOFA (A breath of fresh air).
My testimony about becoming a christian is a typical experience, you know the story, boy goes to church, boy sees beautiful girl, boy keeps going to church and every other church function in hopes of what he's not sure.

MY REAL TESTIMONY begins in Feb 1997 after becoming a christian and marrying the before mentioned girl.
While at work I feel this pain in my legs and I report it to management. They in turn send me to the company doctor. After many tests I hear the dreaded words "you need back surgery", (lower back). A "simple" procedure I am assured.
I wake up from surgery to a full hard cast from neck to hips. What the? I ask "camly". They tell me, blah, blah, blah. At least thats what I hear after the word "oops". (thats the way I remember it anyway).
So after 6 months of rehab trying to learn to walk again I find my own doctor who does many more and might I add painful tests, (lots of needles & poking). I hear "failed back surgery, you need another to fix it".
When they woke me up they tell me that the doctor was "stone cold drunk" while operating. Huh? (this all came out during depositions and was indeed true).
Basicaly, I was cut almost in half, cutting through some pretty important nerves and things. The doctor tried to then fuse my spine by removing the discs and alot of "unnecessary" bone.
But the fusion did not take and now I am informed that I have a "floating" spine, again I say "huh"?
Then my new doctor adds, by the way "we don't know why you are able to even walk" wit the amount of damage and all the scarring wrapping around spinal nerves. (things go black, I smell "smelling salts" which by the way smells nothing like salt.
Workers comp retrains me ironicaly in the medical field as an X-ray technician and medical assistant.
Ten years and tons of pain killers later its now 1997, February if you can believe that, 10 years to the month. My right leg goes out and done I fall. Three days later, yep, I'm being cut on again, but don't worry this time hes a "specialist". HA! 6 weeks after tht surgery I can't walk without help.
I see another doctor, world famous this time and after many more tests, the doctor tells me and I will never forget those words, "even if you were my own mother I would not touch your back".
This surgeon is flown all around the world to fix backs and he won't touch me. Strangely enough I hear those haunting words again "I don't know how your even able to walk" & " I better not even bend over to tie my own shoes or I could be paralyzed. Huh?
Ok, Lord, now what. To this day I have not worked since Feb 1997. (Pray for my wife), God  spoke to me when I was 16 years old, 27 years ago, and said, "Clay,you will be in a music ministry, singing and playing for me". Yeah right, I thought, I can't carry a tune in a brown paper bag. So like a strong willed man I ignored him finished high school, got a job and never gave it another thought.
Fast forward, God gets His way, even if like Moses, you have to travel around in circles 40 years.
The group "ABOFA" (A breath of fresh air) is now in unfamiliar waters, with our fan base growing and reaching the world, 150 countries now playing our music on radio. Winning awards like, best new band, best band of the year, and get this best vocalist of the year, (Huh? I can't even sing). well God either touched my voice or he's touching everyone else's ear's cause its happening just like he said it would.
Now I now why God doesn't give you all the info right away cause there's now way I could have handled it let alone believed it.Your bro in Christ, clay, lead singer for ABOFA. (God is awesome)