IN AUGUST OF 1963 WHILE ATTENDING A BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE AT THE L. A. COLLISEUM I WENT FORWARD TO RECEIVE CHRIST AS MY SAVIOR AS A PUBLIC STATEMENT OF MY FAITH IN CHRIST.

ALMOST SIX YEARS LATER, AFTER I HAD BEEN MARRIED ABOUT A YEAR, MY WIFE PRAYED THE SINNERS PRAYER WITH ME IN THE LIVING ROOM OF OUR FIRST APARTMENT THERE IN KITTERY MAINE. THIS WAS AFTER WATCHING ANOTHER BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE BEING AIRED FROM ANAHEIM, CALIF. AT THE TIME

I WAS BASED IN NEW ENGLAND, WHILE SERVING IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. IT WAS HERE, MY WIFE, CRYSTAL AND I BEGAN OUR ADVENTURE IN SERVING THE LORD. IT BEGUN BY ATTENDING A LOCAL CHURCH THAT HAD JUST STARTED UP NEAR US AND THEN VOLUNTERING TO WORK WITH THE YOUTH. WE BROUGHT IN KIDS FROM THE AIR FORCE BASE AND THEN INVOLVED THEM IN THE “NEW ENGLAND FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICALS.”

AFTER MY DISCHARGE FROM THE MILITARY, IN 1971 I WENT ON TO FINISH COLLEGE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. I HAD THIS DESIRE TO SERVE THE LORD IN ANY CAPACITY GOD WOULD HAVE ME TO BE IN. IT WAS ONE YEAR AFTER GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE A PASTOR OF WHOM I WAS TAKING CARE OF HIS APARTMENTS CALLED ME AND INTERVIEWED ME TO WORK AT HIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AS HIS ASSISTANT. I WAS HIRED AND STAYED THERE SIX YEARS AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL.

ALSO AT THIS SAME TIME MY WIFE AND I WORKED TOGETHER AS YOUTH LEADERS IN THIS SAME CHURCH.

IN 1988 I HAD BECOME CLOSE FRIENDS WITH PASTOR STEVE PRICE HERE IN THE TEMECULA VALLEY. IT WAS ABOUT 1992 GOD CALLED HIM TO BEGIN A CHURCH IN WILDOMAR, CALIF. AGAIN, MY WIFE AND I SERVED IN THIS NEW AND BEGINNING CHURCH. SEVERAL YEARS LATER I WAS ORDAINED BY PASTOR STEVE.

I THANK THE LORD FOR HIS WONDERFUL LEADING IN MY LIFE IN THE DIRECTION AND MINISTRIES THAT HE HAS HAD MY WIFE AND I IN, AND NOW TO WHERE WE ARE SERVING. IT IS TRULY A BLESSING TO BE A PART OF THIS MINISTRY OF CALVARY CHAPEL BEAR CREEK.