My back story

I converted to Christ from hippiedom in 1977, under a mesquite tree in an Arizona desert. At 27, I thought I was dying and wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to hell, so I called out to God in repentance. Six weeks later I got baptized in the Holy Spirit and experienced the glory of God. Six years later, married, with two children, I was ordained and sent to plant a church in Toronto, Canada.

After two years and a handful of converts, my wife Lynn lost her battle with cancer and so I returned with my two small children to my home church in Tucson. Three years later, I married Laurie, and now with a blended family of six, we packed up for Edmonton, Canada to plant another church, leaving it self-sustaining after five years before leaving again to become missionaries to South Africa. We planted a tent church in the African township of Zwide, Port Elizabeth, and saw many conversions and miracles. We built the church to about two hundred and left after seven years, believing it was time to return to the States. Some of the men from that church are pastoring today.  After evangelizing for a few years we returned to South Africa to plant another church in Tembisa township, Johannesburg, but that ministry was cut short when we had a home invasion at gunpoint and I  returned again to Arizona as an evangelist.

We eventually took over a small church in Idaho. After gathering a few new people, we discovered the church was involved in the Kingdom Now heresy, so we resigned and took another small church in Oregon. After seeing some church growth, we discovered that the church board, prior to us coming, had confiscated some of the church funds and had planned on splitting and joining a Kenneth Hagin-type ministry. Again, we resigned the church and decided to take a break from full-time ministry.

Since then, Laurie and I have taken secular jobs and have been waiting on God for what He would have us do next. Laurie took up floral arrangement, managing one floral shop and starting another.  I’ve written and published four novels: “When Elephants Fight” based on our missionary years in South Africa, and the Immortal Blood trilogy, a time-traveling,  End Times saga about the power of the Blood.

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Author: Changing from Glory to Glory

I was saved in the "Jesus People Movement". We were the last revival America has seen, other than the recent one that broke out at Asbury University in Kentucky. Many of us "Jesus People" converts became preachers, including myself. In 30 years, my family and I planted churches in Canada and South Africa. We saw many conversions and healing miracles, especially in South Africa. Before salvation in 1976, I fought in the Vietnam War, a bronze star, and then like many disillusioned young people of my generation, I became a hippie. Vietnam wasn’t just about giving us hippies an excuse to get high and medicate our anger, but it was an attempt at stopping Communism’s aggression in Southeast Asia. We failed, and millions of innocent Vietnamese and Cambodian people died, the eventual result of all tyrannical takeovers. Now, in my latter years, I find myself fighting again, here at home, only this time it’s a global takeover, where even our own nation is against our freedoms. God impressed on me as a young convert that I would see the Rapture of the church, and now we are very certainly living in those days just before the Tribulation Period, also called “Daniel’s Seventieth Week,” and “Jacob’s Troubles,” a time when God’s wrath will be poured out upon the unbelieving world. This judgment is not for the Church, the Bride of Christ. We’re going up in the First Resurrection. Paul says to “encourage one another with this hope.” In these final days of the Church Age, the Age of the Gentiles, where there's been a big uptick in Jewish conversions and a diminishing of Gentile conversions, the Rapture seems more imminent than ever.

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