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My mother had me dedicated to Christ after I was released from the hospital and things began to change from that point on. My legs and feet were surgically broken and turned around to face in the right direction and I had to learn to walk with walking cast up to my hips. I stumbled and fell often trying to overcome the odds. Finally it happened, my mother stood me up to walk and I took a step, then another, and another. I got so good at walking in those walking cast that my doctors graduated me to a pair shoes with a bar between my feet. I began to get interested in sports and although I had work 100 times harder than everyone else, I knew what it felt like to hit a homerun in baseball and to sack the quarterback in football.
I received Christ as my Savior and Lord at the age of 13. I started a chapter of a Bible club in my high school called FCA ( Fellowship of Christian Athletes ) along with my brother and a teacher. By the time I graduated, we had over 50 students athletes attending every FCA meeting.
I come from a long line of singers, musicians, and preachers in my family. I began to get interested in Southern Gospel music when I was introduced to the music of The Hinsons, The Hemphills, The Singing Cookes, and The Perry Sisters.
I prayed for the gift to play the piano and I was playing the following week. God has blessed me with the gift to play anything that I hear and to write songs. Along with my brother Tim, I've written, produced, and recorded 5 Singing News Top 80 Hit Songs. I've been blessed to have had other artists record my songs as well. I've enjoyed the privilege of co-writing with Ronnie Hinson, Steve Chaney, and Zane King just mention a few.
Over the years, God has blessed me with the honor of sharing the stage with almost every major Southern Gospel artist short of Bill Gaither. More importantly, of all the experiences I've had, I have witnessed literally thousands of people come to know Christ and that is the measuring stick I use to drive me to do more. At the end of the day the only thing that matters it what we've done for Christ.
