Our Family
George was saved at the age of 14. My friend witnessed to me while we were out on a lake swimming and fishing in a row-boat. It shocked me that he would be concerned enough to talk to me in that way. We were just kids doing what kids do. He decided that it was right and inform me about my future without Christ. I then got on my knees and prayed that simple prayer.
After I accepted Christ, I started attending his church. My sister and I, started out as bus kids. We were faithfully picked up and driven to church each week. God used a faithful servant to invest in our lives and make sure we heard God’s word each week. My parents did not attend church at the time, but after seeing a change in my sister and me, they started to go to church with us. For the first time we were going to church as a complete family. I never knew the plan God had for my life, but He did. He knew the day that He would call me into full-time ministry.
Judy was saved at the age of twenty. Her story is a bit different than mine. She was raised Catholic and was actively attending church with her mother. Her life took an unexpected change when our paths crossed. I had only one problem, she was lost. I started to witness to her. She had never heard these things before. After hearing different verses and passages of scripture, she came under conviction. I knew it was only a matter of time before she would let go of her own understanding and trust God. She was saved just a short time later. I never told her that if she had not gotten saved, we would never have been married. I did not want to force a decision. That would have been unfair pressure. After all, I am quite a catch. I’m just kidding; it needed to be true repentance. I knew that if we were going to have any chance at a successful marriage, we could not have been unequally yoked together
Judy and I were married when I was twenty-five on August 24th, 1991 and by age thirty-eight we had three children (George, Rebekah, Julia)., a business, a house with 5 acres, etc. We were content living our lives in God’s will. I was a Deacon and the Sunday School Superintendant in our local church. My wife was involved in various ministries with the women and children. She was also a homemaker, secretary, and school teacher. We were busy with what God had given us to do to that point. That all changed when my pastor, David Craig, surrendered to be a missionary. God began to work in my heart about missions, and the more I prayed, the more I began to see how I could be useful in Alaska. God confirmed His call on my life to be a missionary at the age of thirty-eight. Since then there has been no looking back.