Baker's Chapel UMC experienced significant growth during the 1-year student pastor assignment, grew in membership, and launched an ambitious building program. The church today is one of a limited number of rural UMC congregations with an active and vital membership and leadership.

Ebenezer UMC was a very small church with a very old congregation. Several years later, most of the members had died off, and the church was closed and torn down.

Lay Minister for Garrison Chapel and Tennyson UMC in Warrick County, IN 1976-77

Tennyson UMC experienced rapid growth, a spontaneous move of God regarding salvation, baptisms (21 total), and several notable miracles, including the instantaneous disappearance of a large cancerous mass off of a woman's back with dozens of people watching. The move of God continued until several church leaders decided to come against what was happening in the church, resulting in a church split. Within two years, the church was a plowed field.

Garrison Chapel UMC was a congregation of 13 members, all over the age of 70, and on fixed incomes. At the
beginning of my pastorate, they only met every other week. Based on a personal appeal by me, offering to preach every other Sunday without asking for any more salary, the church voted to open its doors every Sunday. A rapid and spontaneous period of church growth occurred, with several new families coming back into church for the first time in years, without any attempt on my part to evangelize them. The church doubled in size, developed an active youth program and continues to be active and vital as of the last report which I received.

Lay Minister for Fletcher Chapel and Folsomville UMC in Warrick County, IN 1979-80

Fletcher Chapel UMC and Folsomville UMC was a two-point charge. Both churches had limited congregations, and still survive today as far as I know. Most of the members of the congregations were elderly and very kind to us. We enjoyed our ministry there. No significant events occurred during my ministry there.

Co-founder of Jasper Chapter of Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship 1982-86

The FGBMFI is an international organization dedicated to promoting the infilling of the Holy Spirit to Mainline and Evangelical Christians. It provides a mechanism for those individuals whose personal commitment to Christ and whose personal depth of experience with the Holy Spirit exceeds that of the local congregation of which they are a part. The FGBMFI Jasper Chapter and the international organization itself continued to be a powerful factor in helping people come into a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. Many notable healings and miracles occurred during that ministry period. Unfortunately, leadership problems at both the local and international level have significantly diminished the effectiveness of the fellowship in the last decade or so.

Founder / Pastor of House of the Lord Church in Jasper, IN 1982-87

The House of the Lord Church was a non-denominational full-gospel church which had a membership varying from 10 to 35 during its lifespan. A number of significant healings occurred during that period.

Local Co-Chairman of Billy Graham "No Longer Alone" Film @1985

The BGEA film enjoyed moderate success at the local theater. A great deal of planning and work went into the
project. Since my other co-chairman was present in title only, I handled 100% of the workload. It presented
a marvelous opportunity to create bridges across multiple denominations. Friendships were build with many pastors, priests, and other committed believers in other denominations.

Itinerant Evangelism at multiple locations in Kentucky 1989-1992

Active, powerful ministry occurred in Madisonville, Central City, Lancaster and surrounding areas. As always, a
significant number of healings and miracles occurred during the various services, including several prophecies of remarkable accuracy which came to pass exactly as spoken with one year of the event.

Founder / Pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Jeffersonville, IN 1993-2001

Founded originally in Depauw, IN and later relocated to Jeffersonville, IN, the church experienced membership varying from a starting number of 17 to a high of 58. It was involved in cooperative ministry with other congregations, either as host or guest regarding building facilities during most of its lifetime. Although plagued by the moral instability of many of the individuals who attended church there, it was nonetheless the site of several hundred documentable healings and miracles, including over 70 in one year. A spontaneous move of God occurred, resulting in a single baptism service held at Graceland Baptist where 27 individuals were baptized, and a nearly legally blind 14-year-old boy was spontaneously healed as he came up out of the water. The final few years of the church were plagued by a lack of finances and no stable place to hold services.

Interim Pastor for First Christian Church in Charlestown, IN @1999 (3 months)

During the period when Cornerstone Christian Fellowship was without a stable meeting location, an opportunity to be interim pastor at First Christian Church arose. First Christian, despite its name, was actually a Full Gospel church, having made the transition from the Evangelical camp to the Word/Faith Movement some decades ago. The interim pastorate was enjoyable, and there was some interest in retaining me as the full-time pastor, but they wanted me to relocate my family to Charlestown, and accept a rate of pay which would not have begun to pay my bills. At that time, the congregation was only 35 to 50 on any given Sunday. Since my two youngest children were both firmly established in the Jeffersonville School system, and active in music and sports, it was not appropriate for me and my family to relocate at that point in time.

Founder / President of School Of School of the Prophets / E-Church Ministries 2001 - 2003

E-Church Ministries had multiple outreaches: In the Louisville area, we aired our weekly School Of The Prophets hour-long broadcast for several years on Sunday mornings on WLOU, a black Christian radio station based in Louisville. Recording sessions often ended in extensive ministry periods and many wonderful healings and prophecies originated both during the broadcast and afterwards during times of personal ministry. On Friday nights, we acted as overseers and ministers at A Place of Love, a food, furniture and clothing distribution and helps ministry located in New Albany, IN. The Assistant Pastor, Owen Wilson, handled the helps ministry and also had an active prison ministry into the Floyd County Jail. We also had a web site, www.schooloftheprophets.com. We sent out periodic internet E-Pistles, which were teaching articles on current events, coupled with a Microsoft Word document dedicated to our Unrolling the Scroll series, a comprehensive series of articles which walk the reader through the Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ in a logical, methodical way. An additional book entitled Biblical Biorhythms and the Coming Crash, an analysis of economic cycles and the enormous probability of another crash similar to that of 1929, is also in the rough draft stage and being developed as time permits. The first volume of Unrolling the Scroll is ready to go to press. Six more volumes will follow.

Outside of the Louisville area, we were engaged in active evangelism and outreach ministry. We played a major role in the Women at the Well conference in New Albany several years ago. As a result of that conference, we were asked to be the keynote speakers at a special three-day revival in Seymour, IN. In the Cincinnati area, we partnered with Ammons United Methodist Church, a Spirit-filled Black Methodist church pastored by Dr. Fred Heath. We were members of Ammons, and hosted A Gathering of Eagles every Saturday night at Ammons. This service was targeted at the Spirit-filled community, particularly those who had been disenfranchised by hurtful experiences with other churches, and those who desired more of the Holy Spirit than their local congregation offered. We witnessed multiple healings and miracles at these services, and many powerful prophetic words, many involving circumstances and events known only to the person being ministered to and God Himself. In some cases, prophetic words came to pass in a matter of weeks or even days. On Sundays we ministered in a number of other Spirit-filled Black churches, notably Faith United Methodist Church and Calvary United Methodist Church. The Cincinnati and Ohio area outreach increased dramatically during the next few months, and led us to the next step in our journey.

Pastor at Calvary United Methodist Church December, 2002 - May, 2005

After preaching at Calvary United Methodist Church in Milford, Ohio, on a week-to-week basis for several months, we accepted the pastorate of the church in December of 2002. We then commuted back and forth between Milford and the Louisville area, where we were living, for several months. Church growth was so rapid that by June 1 of 2003, we were able to move to Milford and live in the church parsonage. During 2003 and 2004 the church experienced dramatic growth, adding 60 new members in two years, more than doubling the attendance, and set modern-day giving records, almost doubling the previous high. Two services were formed, a Tradition Service for the older, mostly non-Charismatic members of the church, and a Contemporary Service for the new, younger members of the church who were largely new Christians, and who were also filled with the Holy Spirit, and had received multiple healings and deliverances.

Unfortunately, as with any church experiencing significant revival, problems arose. Some of the older members grew weary of the revival, just as they did with Rev. Smales at Azusa Street, and began to lobby to shut down the Contemporary Service and force a single, unified service with more structure and ritual. This caused considerable tension between us and the leadership of the church, who were all older and more conservative. Then a series of tragedies struck. My wife's mother became terminally ill. My wife had to go to Evansville, IN to help take care of her and was gone for several months. While her mother was actively dying, I also became ill, suffering from agonizing pain in my right ear and constant infection, which stubbornly resisted all medications and defied all diagnosis. Then, one Sunday evening in November, 2004, I had to be rushed to the hospital with chest pains. An 80% blockage was discovered in one of the arteries of my heart. While undergoing an angioplasty to open the artery, it collapsed without warning and I suffered a heart attack on the table. While I was in the hospital recovering from that, the ear pain became much worse, and I was referred to a new ENT doctor. He ran tests on me, and the results were not good. In December of 2004, I was diagnosed with an inoperable, malignant tumor in the Naso-pharynx region near my right ear. The tumor had grown sufficiently to block the Eustachian tube connected to my right ear. Since surgery was impossible, I was scheduled for a combination of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. I endured 35 radiation treatments, which totally destroyed the tumor (along with fervent, effectual pray from friends all over the globe), but which also scarred my throat and the upper palate of my mouth, and also severely damaged my salivary glands and taste buds. I had terrible reactions to some of the medications, and began to throw up as many as five times a day, and lost 80 pounds during the entire treatment process. In addition, the pain medication I was on caused terrible constipation and blockages which resulted in a painful tear in the rectal wall lining causing me excruciating pain every time I went to the bathroom. On top of everything else, the chemotherapy I was taking caused terrible side-effects, stripping the lining from the nerves in my hands and feet and causing such significant pain that I almost suffered a nervous breakdown because of the constant, unendurable pain. Often, I would walk the floor at 2:00 in the morning, crying out with pain, with my wife walking behind me, laying hands on me and praying for me. The pain would also spread into my legs, chest and even my face. It was like being stung constantly by a thousand bees without ever being able to gain relief.

Then, things got even worse. Convinced that I was going to die, the leadership at Calvary voted secretly behind my back to fire me while I lay in a hospital bed. They decided to hire the young assistant I had brought in the help me with the Contemporary Service. They gave me two months to get out of the parsonage. I had nowhere to go, and no one to turn to. Outraged by these decisions, every single one of the new members of the church left Calvary, never to return. They also lost several long-standing members who simply could not go along with their ungodly decisions. People in the community were shocked by their actions. They justified them by saying it was "Just business". I had given up a $53,000 a year job as a programmer at the Hospice of Louisville to move to Cincinnati, and now I had no health insurance, and was so sick that I could not work, and neither could my wife, who had to take care of me full time.

It was at this time that God and His people showed themselves strong in a way that I had never seen before. They took it upon themselves to do whatever was necessary to make sure that Bev and I were taken care of. I was so weak that I could only pack a few boxes a day, so individuals came to help us pack. Another individual found a beautiful home for us to live in. Others provided trucks and vans for us to move in. Others moved the furniture. In the meanwhile, it had become obvious that we had a brand new church on our hands, made up of all the individuals who had left Calvary over my unjust firing. And so a new chapter was turned in our ministry.

Founder and Co-Pastor of The Fellowship @ River's Edge June 2005 - June 2007

Shortly before June 1 of 2005, supported by the members who had left Calvary, we began a new church, The Fellowship @ River's Edge. We found a storefront location, and began holding services, with a core group of about 30 to start out. Almost immediately, we began to experience healings, signs, wonders and miracles. People began to be "Slain in the Spirit" in large numbers, sometimes up to 75% of the congregation at one time. Remarkable manifestations also began to appear, some of which we have on camera. Despite my severe physical limitations, the power of God was not limited at all, and, in fact, seemed to grow stronger the weaker I was. Paul was totally correct when he said, "When I am weak, then I am strong". Despite all these clear evidences of God's grace, there were still problems, this time in the area of Christian conduct, character and morality. When I began to recover my strength and stamina, issues which I had been too weak to deal with began to become an problem. As a result, the church went through a time of purging. I had to rebuke and correct several members who had been the recipient of God's grace in the extreme, yet continued in personal sin and moral compromise. As a result, about a dozen people either left the church or were asked to leave. I had never done that in my ministry, but grace and mercy must be balanced by holiness and sanctification. The church in America is so over-balanced on the side of "It's all grace, brother!" that no moral demands are made on the life of the believer. After a rocky period of about two months, those who were not willing to live for Christ left, and the core group understands what is expected of them as mature Christians. Because of the extreme expenses of the storefront, and also because the landlord refused to fix any of the significant problems with water leakage and heating, we moved from the storefront location, and began sharing a 1.5 million dollar facility seating 300 with another congregation. They had built a wonderful new facility about three years before, and then went through a series of devastating congregational splits which reduced them to 20 people. Eventually, the financial pressures on them became so intense that the pastor was asked to leave, and we were asked to leave as well so that the church could be sold to cover the debts. As it turned out, that never happened, and a great deal of deception was involved on the part of the leadership of the congregation and their treasurer in the matters that transpired. River's Edge began to dwindle and finally devolved into a house church. We were so emotionally and physically exhaused that we decided to suspend all ministry activity for a period of time in order to heal.

President of E4India Outreach from June 2007 to October 2008

For a period of time we actively supported Good Samaritan Ministries, located in the Andhra Pradesh Province in India. They operate an orphanage of 50 children and oversee many local pastors and evangelists. Ruth and Raj became dear friends, a new orphanage was built, we traveled to India to dedicate it and many signs and wonders occured there, as documented in my Personal Testimony. Unfortunately, once again lies and betrayal rose up and ruined what the Holy Spirit had been doing, and so we suspended our India Outreach for a period of time.

President of the Ephesians 4 Center for Learning from October 2008 to the present

We have now begun the process of restarting the Ephesians 4 Center for Learning, focusing on the metropolitan Louisville area as our target market. It is our hope that by presenting a nearly-free "Free-Lance" approach to higher Christian education that we will be able to reach, teach and minister to a large percentage of the Christian community who normally cannot afford to attend institutions of higher learning. Only time will tell. We covet your prayers and your support in this effort, and ask you to remember us daily in your personal intercession times.