Return HomeI was blessed to be raised in a Christian home by loving parents. My mother and father were Baptists all their lives. My father was a deacon at Park Cities Baptist Church at the time of his death in 1986. My mother died in 1957 after a series of illnesses. She survived breast cancer to die of stomach cancer at the age of 53.
I wandered from active church life and religion during school and while I was in the Air Force. I became active again during my training in Dallas at Parkland Hospital. I joined the church of my wife, Oak Cliff Christian. I attended the Christian church until it became apparent that I was becoming more conservative and this church (Disciples of Christ) was becoming more liberal. I sought a church that met my spiritual needs and found Trinity Fellowship on Greenville Avenue in Richardson.
I moved to El Paso in 1994 and worshipped at Coronado Baptist Church. When I returned to Dallas in 1997 I returned to Trinity Fellowship.
I have been blessed to participate in several small groups. I helped start a small group at Trinity and the Gray Panthers are still meeting every Thursday night since 1985.
I organized a group of physicians that met every Monday morning for a number of years between 1986 and when I moved to El Paso in 1994.
I participated in a small group in El Paso that forever changed my life. I was introduced to the benefits received from daily prayer and Bible study through a group called FAT (faithful, accountable and teachable). It was a group led by pastor Mike Woods. I had been an intermittent Bible student for 30 years, but never on a daily basis. I have been spiritually renewed several times during my life, and this was another episode that was wonderful. A group of guys met every other Saturday morning at 7:00 AM. I made some wonderful friends and relationships. I developed a new and fresh relationship with Jesus Christ yet again!
I am blessed to be able to begin each day by spending time in the Word and in personal prayer. It is the best part of my day!
I believe in Jesus Christ, the Messiah, son of the living God as my personal savior. I am grateful to be chosen by God to receive salvation through Christ's finished work on the cross.