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Well let's get started! I was born and raised in New Mexico, Belen to be specific. I grew up loving the old traditional cowboy way of life and still love and miss it. I became interested in the sport of rodeo and started riding bulls at age 13 and rode off and on for 13 years. I worked for a major cattle company and auction outfit until I graduated from high school. I also dabbled at my own sign painting buisness and also worked in a small tortilla factory in my home town. After high school, I joined the Marine Corps and spent 5 years working as a jet engine mechanic in support of our countries freedom.In 1995, I left the Corps and moved to southwest Virginia where I began a career as a welder/fitter for Longwall Associates, a major mining equipment manufacturer. I am still employed there, but I am now in the plant operations maintenance department. I met my wife Sheri in '91' at Cherry Point, N.C. during part of my training as an aircraft mechanic and married in'92'. We've been together for almost 17 years. She had two children from a previous marriage who at the time were 4 and 6. Scott, now age 19, is at Army boot camp at FT. Leonard Wood , MO. and Jessica is now 21. My how time flies! I love them both dearly and would do anything for them. They always have been and always will be MY KIDS!

I've always had a thing for classic cars and hot rods. I enjoy hot rodding, going to car shows and rod runs, and just about anything involving fast cars or custom street machines. I've even done some Drag Racing at a local dragstrip. I also enjoy painting, sculpting, drawing, and any other kind of artsy/craftsy stuff I can get my hands on. I've even dabbled in silversmithing and jewelry design. About three years ago, I took up the lost art of free-hand, old school pinstriping. It keeps me busy and keeps me close to the local Rod And Custom community. I own a 58 Buick Roadmaster and I am planning on continuing the restoration on it as soon as money allows. I hope have it on the road by the end of next summer, just cruisin' for Christ!!

I love going to church and living for the Lord. In August of last year, I was saved by the grace of God and have been going to church and worshiping through music and prayer since then. I love Jesus and the new life he has so graciously blessed me with. I really don't know how I ever lived without him in my life.( I wasn't really living) Now, being an avid musician, I can put my talents to work for the Lord and minister to those who have yet to know him. Praise The Lord!!!!!!!!!!!



As you can tell, I play music. It's been a huge part of my life and it always will be. I've been playing since I was 12 or 13 and play at least an hour every day. My biggest influences have come out of the "Blues"genre. Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Chuck Berry, and Eric Johnson are just a few that I have studied. Now that I've been saved, I have a strong desire to write praise and worship music with a bluesy feel to it. A couple of friends and I have formed a contemparary Christian group and are now in the proccess of composing new music and writing new songs. We hope to be up and playing for fund raisers and youth rallies soon after the hollidays. I plan on starting a band profile for us on this network
as soon as we get under way. Our mission is to reach out and touch people with the word of God through our music. Keep us in your prayers as we set out on this new path that God has called us to travel.


If this is your first vist to my profile, I'd like to invite you to check out my Blog. It pretty much defines the reason I am on this network. Every word is sincere and heart-felt, and by the grace of God, I will live up to them 100%!

Animation, Video Games, Computers, Drum Playing, Movies - Creating, Worship Leading, Service, Songwriting, Guitar Playing, Ministry/Callings, Singing, Concerts, Painting/Drawing, Church, Photography, Music - Listening, Music- Playing

Kutless, Shane and Shane, Brian Setzer, Nick Curren, Otis Redding, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, John Lee Hooker ( I'm total music freak!), Mercy Me, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Casting Crowns Micheal W Smith, 50's and 60's rock n roll, Third Day WAY TOO MANY TO LIST HERE!!!

After years of struggling with alcohol, depression, and marriage problems,I struggled with myself and my identity. I was quick tempered and my wife and children suffered because of it. I wasn't physically abusive, but I often found myself dangerously close to crossing that line. I drank to cover up guilt and resentment towards myself, I drank to escape the reality of life and it's problems and people I didn't like, and I drank because I loved it. I was a binge drinker. I wouldn't drink much during the week, but when Friday night rolled around and I loaded up to go and play a gig, THE PARTY WAS ON. I played music in bars and night clubs which gave me direct access to my drug of choice, adding fuel to the fire and further complicating matters at home. I didn't like who I was and wondered what I had done to deserve such a cruddy life. I hated my job and I hated everyone I worked with. (Back then the feeling,I think, was mutual among my co-workers.) I even went so far as to cuss out a preacher that I worked with for trying to introduce me to the Lord. Yes you can say it; WHAT A JERK! I was a mess to put it lightly, a shell of a human being that no one liked and no one wanted to be around. One morning, after a night of drinking, I was working on my old 58 Buick and feeling terrible. I was hung over and feeling sick along with feeling guilty about what had transpired the night before. Soon the guilt was overwhelming. I couldn't feel anything but pure guilt and shame of years of hate, neglect, anger, and just outright demonic behavior. That's when it happened. I heard a voice calling out to me, some where from the depths of my mind ,saying that it was time I changed my life for the better before I ended up losing my family, what few friends I had, or my life all together. My ears rang and echoed those words until I couldn't think of anything else. I went inside to my wife and told her that I thought it was time for me to start going to church. After picking her jaw up off of the floor and she finished wiping the haze of disbelief out of her eyes, I asked her to call her sister and inquire about the local churches. Back then,I had a reputation as a person who hated church, church goers, and anything that resembled church. I considered people who went to church uppity, Bible-thumping hypocrites, so all of this was quite a shock to my wife, my kids, and all of my wifes family. I quit the band I was playing with after realizing how it it put me in bad situations.( One member was into drugs and we all drank heavily at gigs. Some nights we were so wasted, I wondered how we played at all.) We started atttending a local church that my wife's sister had recomended and began a life I never knew existed. We learned a lot of things about me, my addiction, and why I was such a jerk and how God had a plan for all of us here on earth. I have been going to church regularly ever since!!!! MY life now is AMAZING! I never knew what real peace was ! The people I work with still haven't gotten used to the new me, but they can see a genuine change for the better. The love and joy I feel serving the Lord could never be expressed in words. Yes, I still deal with life and it's problems and I've had a slip or two with the alcohol, but I now have the Lord to show me the way and he never leaves my side. I will never go back to that kind of existance again. I'm a completely different person now and I owe it all to GOD! I love playing music in church and praising his name! My wife and I have grown closer than ever before and we share our love for God togther on our church's Praise and Worship Team. I have come a long way in just a little over a years time and have so much more to learn, but learning and serving the Lord has never been more exciting. Here's a bit of irony: The preacher I cussed out the week before I got saved....
He's the pastor at the church I currently attend! He has been an inspiring teacher, mentor, and friend. I love him and thank God for him each and every day. I'm still learning and have a lot more to learn, But all the words in the dictionary could never express the love, joy, and peace I feel knowing that I am a child of God and that in my daily walk, Christ is with me every step of the way and he will never forsake me.
THANK YOU GOD FOR YOUR MERCY AND GRACE!!!

Hot rodders, customizers, former military, cool people, funny people, musicians, animal lovers, peolpe with the same intrestets, And most importantly, people who love and serve the Lord!