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I was 28yrs. old when I accepted CHRIST in my life. Before then I had lived a life of sin, chaos and hopelessness. I was raised by alcoholic parents that divorced when I was a young boy & I was also informed when I was 5 years old that I was adopted and my biological mother didn't want me and was adopted out at the age of 6 months. Then came the feelings of abandonment and rejection as well. I was raised as an only child. My adoptive parents couldn't have any children of their own and they always said that I was enough for the both of them. I was raised believing that my biological mother was an aunt and her 3 sons were my cousins. Come to find out that I am the oldest of 4 boys. My youngest brother right underneath me is a talented artist and musician. He is a tatooist and he is the base player for the band called Fight. Fight was formed when Rob Helford from Judas Priest broke away and started his own band. My brother plays for him. I am praying for my brothers salvation and for him to serve GOD the way he is serving the devil. My next brother owns a tatoo shop and is married and just had his first baby girl. He has two step children as well. I am also praying for his salvation as well. My youngest brother is married and has a little boy and a little girl. He drives for Budweiser company. I am also praying for his salvation. I have had contact with my brothers off and on thru the years. My desire is to have a lasting relationship with them and that we would ALL serve GOD all the days of our lives. My adoptive parents both remarried after the divorce. My father remarried a girl 7yrs older than me and my mother remarried another alcoholic. My step dad was very abusive towards my mother and beat her often. There were many times when he would kick the both of us out of the house during one of his drinking binges. I lived with my mother and step dad in the mountains of West Virginia and would go and spend my summers with my dad and step mom in the city in Ohio. I had the taste of both worlds. I started to get in trouble at a young age. I was stealing things and selling them just to have money in West Virginia and that progressed when I went to stay in Ohio. My dad spent time in the bars with his new wife and I spent my time running the roads. my dad would give me money to try and buy my affection. Living this cycle of chaos and sin, I left home at a early age. I had gotten my mother drunk and had her sign emancipation papers so I could get married at 15 years old. My dad begged me to not get married, but I didn't listen. I just wanted to get out of the mess that I was raised in. Every time I would tell my mother when I was little that I was going to live with my father instead she would play a guilt trip on me and say that she would commit suicide. So that's why I had to find a way to get out of my world as I knew it. I married my best friends older sister. She was 5 years older than me. I dropped out of school in 10th grade to get a job and support my newly wed wife. We were married for about 6 years. We never had children together and things didn't work out. I married her because it was convenient and a way to get out of my problems or so I thought. I moved to Ohio with my dad and started a world of searching for something that I didn't even know what IT was in all the wrong places. During this time is when GOD and placed a good friend in my path to help me get on the right path. She had called me and said that the woman that GOD had specifically created for me was in Ohio and she worked with my friend. I thought okay! I'll go check this girl out. She worked at a resturant and I sat at a table next to her section and thought how beautiful she was but thought she is so out of my league. My friend talked me into getting a job at the same place this girl was and to try and get to know her. I started working there and worked very hard at getting her attention. It paid off and i knew that this was my soul mate and the one that GOD created just for me and I for her. She was a single mother with a little chubby cheeked girl. I feel in love with the both of them. I knew that this was what I would do with the rest of my life. We married and had 2 more beautiful girls. When I realized that I had a big responsibility to raise a family and started to search as to how to do this. I didn't have the best examples in my life. One day my wife's cousin had invited us over for supper and began sharing about Christ and the things that HE has done for him and how GOD filled that void in his life. I began to ask questions and by the end of the conversation I accepted CHRIST in my heart and before I could even finish the conversation I blirted out that I needed to get baptized right away. I don't even think that I really even knew what I was asking for at the time. But that same night I was baptized out behind my house in a pond by the head lights of my truck. I had never had a feeling of wholeness before and knew that I would serve GOD all the days of my life with a passion and serious sincerity. God has shown me his awesome power and HIS love. He had placed a desire within me to work with youth that were dealing with real issues in this life. God allows us to go through things in our lifetime to grow us for HIS Kingdom purpose and to share with others to build and edify the body of CHRIST.
