Full Gospel Businessmen's Training

With my education and my military active duty commitment completed, I launched my business career and started my family in 1966.  My life was committed to my business and hobbies.  By world’s standards I was a success.

For 39 years I worked for Blue Chip chemical companies developing sales and marketing strategies to solve industrial corrosion problems with composites. This market was huge as over one billion dollars were spent per year in the USA on corrosion. Our products saved industries millions of dollars with low maintenance fiberglass process equipment.  My technical expertise, experience and excellent track record for solving corrosion problems in the chemical process, pulp and paper, semiconductor, power, oil and gas industries gained industry recognition and respect.

However, there was a price to pay. My 84 hour work schedule destroyed my relationship with my family.  On July 2, 1984, my wife of 18 years said, “I’m leaving. You can have the kids and the farm.”  And she left.  I didn’t know how to be a father, but I was going to try.  The stress in my life caused my first stroke in 1986.  I began to seek God for help.  My life was in shambles.   

While attending a meeting in October 1987, I was experiencing my second stroke.  The pressure in my head was so great I thought it would explode all over the back of the room.  
In my desperation before I thought I was dying, I called out to Jesus and said, “You can have all of me!”  Immediately Jesus spoke to me and said, “Do my will.”  He was calling me to obedience.  The pressure in my head left as I was standing in the presence of a Holy God.  Never in my life had I felt such love and forgiveness.  By mental telepathy I heard, "As I have forgiven you, so must you forgive others."  Then I saw a film strip with a picture in each frame of a person I had not forgiven.  My dad was on the first frame.

He washed away all my corrosion and gave me new life and spiritual gifts.  
I did not know the purpose or how to use these new gifts. I asked God for help and the Holy Spirit instructed me to pray with a man at a men’s breakfast. This man was the local FGB president and he mentored me for the next 10 years.

As I made Jesus savior and Lord, he restored my health, family, and business.  Jesus changed my direction in life.  He taught me to love him with all my heart, mind and soul, and to love my neighbor as myself.  Then I wondered if there was someone to love me, a helpmate, and in November of 1987 I asked the Lord to show me my future wife. In April 1988 while attending a Wednesday evening dinner, I saw the glow from angels surrounding a lady.  Was she the one Lord? And instantly He put love in my heart for her and we were married in September.  My wife's prayer was "Lord, send to me a suitable husband even if you have to raise him from the dead."

Local university students started coming to me asking to be discipled. They wanted to know how to experience God in the lives. This small beginning became my passion to take the message of hope to our community, state, nation and world.
I wanted to make spiritual investments in our future generations.

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