Life went on and I had no one to tell me what do as far as what following Christ looked like. As I got into highschool I started hanging with the wrong crowd, experimenting with alcohol and drugs. I got out of highschool, started work, and later on went to Spartanburg Tech for welding. I had been dating this girl, whom I later married. The drugs and alcohol continued as well as a lack of church involvement. At different times in my life over the years God’s quiet voice spoke to my heart in the strangest of places (in a bar for example). He would say, “What are you doing here in this place? You don’t belong here.”

I got to a point where I was ready to settle down and get right with God. She didn’t want to do that. It just got worse and worse with the drugs and alcohol and the cheating on her part. We ended up divorced. It was at this point that I began to look to the Lord, and I recommitted my life to the Lord at the age of 24-25. Since then I have been all over the world for Jesus on short-term missions trips. During this period I met the girl who 8 years later would become the love of my life and then my wife. I also serve in the student ministry as a bible fellowship teacher/drummer in the worship band. My life has been turned upside down by Jesus, but when the world is upside down, it takes Jesus to turn it right side up.