Growing up I was always the good one and the quiet one. Many people have a dream for their life. I had 3 dreams. I wanted to sing, act, and make people laugh. The only problem was that I was the shyest person you would ever have met. I was the one in the back of the class room never talking and praying. The teacher would never call on me. One time she did. I tried to read aloud in class and almost hyperventilated. This was my life…. shy, quiet Brad.One day my youth directors at church asked me point blank, did I know Jesus as my savior? I had to say no. That weekend I struggled with that question. The next Sunday I knew I had to go down and receive Jesus as my savior. But Satan, knowing my fear, tried to stop that. I could hear, “What will your friends think? You will have to stand before all those people. You will never do it.” Then I heard a very soft voice, “If you will only take the first step, I will do the rest.” To this day I don’t remember walking down the aisle to the front of the Church. When I got down there, I prayed to receive Christ. I believed that He died for my sins and that he rose again to show His victory over that sin.Since I became a Christian, my life has been a little different. God has allowed me to be in a local Christian singing group where I was able to sing and give my testimony on local Christian television. God has allowed me to act in many local plays and musicals even in our very own Passion Play where I played a leper that was healed. God also allowed me to make people laugh… just ask my friends, they think I am a riot! Please don’t misunderstand, I am not bragging. Am I the best singer? Hardly.  Am I the best actor? Not by a long shot. Am I the funniest person you will meet?  No. But do you see it? With every dream I had God not only fulfilled my dream, but allowed me to proclaim the name of Jesus in every one of them. I know being a leper in a play and a crazed Cheerleader in a skit is a stretch to leading people to Christ. But as a great and wise pastor once said….”It’s all connected.”