 In 1982, after resigning from a 22-year banking career, Mary and I set out to seek the Lord's will for our lives. Subsequently, we moved from Ohio to Pensacola, Florida, in order that I might enroll in Liberty Bible College.
After graduating from LBC in 1984, the Lord opened a door of service and ministry with the We Care Prison Ministry in Atmore, Alabama.
It became evident within the following year that the Prison Ministry was something the Lord used to get us to Atmore. Meeting at first in our home in 1985, by February, 1986, the Liberty Church of Atmore was founded.
For over 15-years we pastored Liberty Church in Atmore where the Lord used us in multiple areas of service and outreach opportunities. Such as: Served on steering committee and original Sav-A-Life Crisis Pregancy Center Board; helped organize and establish Watchman United For Christ a multicultural inter-denominational group of pastors; established a local campus for Logos Christian College & Graduate School; initiated Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Program providing Christmas gifts and ministry to children of prisoners; served on the steering committee and original Hospitality House Ministry Board an outreach to families of prisoners; and made seven Mexico Mission trips with men, women, and children from Liberty and other Churches.
During the years we spent in Atmore, we continued our education in order to provide those we pastored and mentored with as much spiritual and practical wisdom that we were able to acquire, so that they might become all that the Lord desires them to become. Both of us graduated with doctoral degrees from the Logos Christian College & Graduate School in Jacksonville, Florida.
We then began to sense that the Lord wanted to move us in a new direction in ministry and location. Several years before we turned Liberty Church over to a younger couple, the Lord began to birth His vision for Restoration Ministries Fellowship.
In April, 2001, we moved to Ellerslie, Georgia, to be close to our daughter and grandchildren and to begin to walk out The Lord's plan for these latter years of our lives.
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