God blessed me in giving me a Christian family. I grew up going to church and learning a lot about God. For as long as I can remember God has been a very integral part of my life. As I was approaching my high school years I began the quest of deciding what was going to be my life’s work. I looked and thought but I could not find anything that I wanted to spend my life doing. I wanted to be able to look back over the life I lived and know that I had honored the Lord in the way I had spent it. As time went on my desire to serve the Lord grew, but how that would look in a career was a mystery to me.

Meanwhile, my family moved to a new church where the pastor was teaching a Sunday School class on the objective vs. subjective gospel. Basically he was teaching about the difference between a life lived in dependence on God for salvation and the life lived striving to be accepted by God. The things he taught were revolutionary to me. For years I had been trapped in the “subjective” mindset thinking that I had to “say the prayer” the right way and thus, never feeling confident I was saved. But the truth was that my saying a prayer or doing any other thing didn’t affect my salvation. I began to understand just how complete Christ’s atoning work was and how that was to affect me and how I live. Christ did everything to save me, all I need to do is believe. I knew this, but the practical aspect of living it is what I struggled with for so long. Beginning to fully understand these truths in a practical sense was a turning point in my Christian life.

As we continued to attend this church I was exposed to missions and to New Tribes Mission. It was on a mission trip in Mexico that I was heavily challenged by a New Tribes Missionary to consider being a missionary myself. The following spring I heard the same missionary speak again at a men’s retreat and at that point I was convinced that God was directing me to be involved in taking the Gospel where it had never gone before. If I was going to go to a foreign land as a missionary I was determined that it would be to take the gospel to tribal people who have absolutely no way of hearing the message of the Cross unless we go tell them. Many countries today have some kind of witness of the Gospel, but I wanted to go where no one has gone. I knew that this was what I wanted to spend my life doing. I wanted to be able to look back on my life knowing that God had used me to make an impact in eternity.

Today, now with a wife and two boys, our vision remains the same. We are dedicated to taking the gospel where it has not yet been proclaimed. Pray for us. We are walking into Satan’s territory knowing that there is a battle being waged for the souls of lost men and women.