In a way, I was the classic Forest Gump that would sprint between classes in the hallway because I thought I was going to be late. One time I ran the wrong direction in an official school basketball game when I had the ball and motioned to my whole team to go the wrong way when we had just got back from halftime and were supposed to go the opposite direction, yet I beat our star point guard in a pick up game on the side during an all day three on three tournament. In grade school I was put in title one which is for struggling students. When I was a child I fell off the side of the stairs because my grandparents hadn't put a railing on it. I smacked my head on a metal bed frame once while jumping on the bed. My brother threw a piece of firewood directly at my face once while we were stacking wood. I was in and out of the hospital multiple times between the ages of 18 and 29. I would sprint past everyone in football practice and everyone would say to slow down because it's all about technique yet the only game we won my senior year was the only game that I was ever in the starting line up. I had multiple sports injuries and played multiple sports. I maintained a B average. Was in drama club. Was in choir. I took guitar lessons. Was a lifeguard. Was an editor and contributor to the youth group newsletter. I was a peer youth leader and helped lead a regional youth rally called Nitro Happenings. I have gone to multiple Bible camps and Christian concerts and music festivals and revival meetings and retreat centers and resorts throughout my youth and my life in general. I started prayer and Bible study groups in my local public high school and college. I graduated high school and college with honors. I majored in liberal arts, Bible, and design technology. I had an internship in land surveying and worked in Engineering firms for a season. I then got laid off in the housing crash and started working retail sales and management. I went on three missions trips to do kids club at a Native American Reservation.I went on a missions trip to Mexico. I finally got a job as an assistant manager at a Christian coffee shop where we hosted a hip hop and break-dancing nights, open mics, concerts, prayer gatherings, introduction to Christianity, and a recovery group, then that ministry moved a couple times and changed into a neighborhood revitalization ministry. During that time I was going to a different coffee shop where there was a prayer room where I would pray for the city. I also had a printing business for about 8 years amidst all that and beyond. Then I had a summer internship at a Christian art center. It was a campus spread across a neighborhood where there was a famous art college and museum nearby separate from the art center campus I worked for. The art center ministry has art galleries and music venues and art studios for rent, community meals, a church, community housing, intern housing, transitional housing, open mics, concerts, prayer gatherings, a prayer room, a art festival with live music, and summer kids club. After two years there I went back into layman's work and got multiple promotions. During that time I was helping with a 24/7 prayer church with a worship open mic and prayer gatherings. Prior to that I was a prayer captain for a 24/7 phone prayer chain. I also helped with the Twin Cities House of Prayer as a back up guitarist, etc, and helped with other prayer rooms. Then I got called to Nashville for my music and was there for a short time but got called home for a family emergency. I got a job in sales at a music store, and also I was the executive secretary at a different art center and doing freelance videographery. I was eventually on the board of directors at that art center.
I helped host open mics and played concerts at local venues and at art events in my hometown area there. I was also on a missions media committee. I visited my girlfriend in Kenya and did missions there and played concerts there at a church and an orphanage, and I proposed to my girlfriend in front of a waterfall on a coffee plantation by her parents house. I had known my now fiance for about four years prior to our engagement. When I got back from Kenya I got called back to Nashville and was a volunteer support staff for a music tour out of Nashville and I have now been invited to record with a producer who has worked with Chris Tomlin and Charlie Daniels and The Swampers out of Muscle-shoals. So God does do miracles and I am living proof. All glory to God! All thanks be to God! Thank you Lord God Almighty with all that I am and have!
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