I was born in 1952 and grew up on an Amish farm in south-central Pennsylvania. A few days before my fourth birthday, a farm accident left me a paraplegic. That is where my road begins — and in a way, everything since has been the same lesson learned again and again: that God’s goodness holds, even when the way is hard.
The road I’ve walked
I’ve lived in Pittsburgh since 1976. For most of my life I’ve been an entrepreneur while serving in bi-vocational ministry — for me the two have never really been separate. Along the way I’ve made my living in professional electronics sales and service, as a recording studio owner, a recording engineer and producer, in audio and video production, and in information technology consulting. I’ve also spent stretches as a college professor and an associate pastor.
Ministry
Ministry has been the constant underneath all of it — church planting, leadership development, teaching and preaching, and pastoral work. I served as Senior Pastor of The Church at the ROCK until we handed it to a younger pastor in January 2019.
Today
I live in Oakdale, a suburb of Pittsburgh, with my wife, Connie. Health and years have slowed my pace, but they haven’t changed the center of things: Connie and I keep on living every day in honor to God and His goodness.
If you’d like the fuller road — the studios, the classrooms, the churches — it’s laid out across the Ministry, Music, Teaching, Consulting, and Education pages. But the short of it is this: I am simply a fellow traveler, pointing out what I have seen along the way.