Part of what I like to do is make an introduction of myself, tell you a little bit about who I am and what God has done in my life.

And so let me just start out and give you just a short history.

I grew up in Nebraska in Omaha and still even though I live in Texas

and I'm really Texan by heart now. I've been here for 27 years. I still root for the

cornhuskers. I saw I saw one hand back there that's yeah come on. I love

Texas. I love being in Texas. I love being in Texas. I tell people, used to tell people all the time in Amarillo, I got here as quick as I could.

And God just sovereignly moved us. I graduated from University of Nebraska with a degree in accounting and went to work for my dad. My dad and some business partners had a wholesale distribution operation that had

warehouse locations from Montana to Lubbock, mostly in the Midwest and I

went to work for them and took business transfers kind of in a training program for what I thought would bring me back to Omaha to our corporate offices and to head up the company for my dad.

I had all kinds of desires to be a member of the Young Presidents Club and things like that

and operating and not long after we arrived arrived in Amarillo which was in 1977

we became involved in a sunny school class at a church and a and a Bible study that

met out of the Sunday school class and nine months after moving

Damarillo, that Bible study came together with two other Bible studies to start a church.

And that church was named Trinity Fellowship.

We were so excited thinking that we're just going to be there a couple of years and that

God had enabled us while we were there to be a part of planting such an alive work.

And four years after the church started, they approached me about coming leaving business coming on staff as business administrator and I

I wrestled through that process and decided well I'm you know kind of like the peace corps I could go and give a couple years of my life and then I'll go back to business and that was 22 years ago and God kind of snuck up on my life and a call, vocational call to ministry was a part of that.

But I do remember one thing. When I was 16, I committed my heart to the Lord and it was at a youth for Christ rally and there was a guy that gave his testimony at the rally and it was the first time I had grown up in church. My parents were Presbyterian. I grew up in the Presbyterian church. I'd been through Communicants class, I could say the Apostles' Creed, I knew the Lord's prayer, I knew religious stuff, and I'd never been involved in an altar call.

Never heard that Jesus Christ had a personal interest in my life.

And that night at the Youth for Christ rally,

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