I met my wife, Paulette, at a single's Bible Study held in the basement of a missionary organization where she was employed as the secretary of a vice president of that organization. We were married in March of 1975. Shortly after we married, we moved from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There, I attended Fort Wayne Bible College.

I had been in sales for sixteen years but never felt like it was what I wanted to do all my life. We left Ft. Wayne in 1982 and moved to Tyler, Texas, to start an auto interior restoration business. Along with that business, we raised many kinds of animals for fun and profit.

We have lived in Tyler for the last thirty-seven years. We believe God led us to Texas and has blessed us in ways that seem almost miraculous. This book tells the story of how God has given us a life far beyond what we could ever have imagined. We have truly been blessed.