Like almost everyone in this great nation founded on God's Word, the Bible, I just love country music. I can't ever get enough of it. I am especially fond of bluegrass if it has a gospel flavor. On this page you are hearing "Wabash Cannon Bible".

MY JOBS

I used to work for a meat packing company in Pennsylvania. I started working there as a young man and I helped do the killing. At that time one of us would hit the hog in the head with a sledge hammer. As soon as he was stunned another worker would cut his throat from ear to ear while a third worker would jam a sharp chain through both of his ankles and pull him up in the air on a pulley. We had to be fast because the hog wasn't always completely knocked out and you can bet Mr. Hog didn't like what we were doing to him. That may sound funny but put yourself in the hog's place and you will understand a little better.

Well anyway, I was moved to the butcher room and learned how to butcher hogs. That included gutting and even skinning them. In case you didn't know it, they use EVERYTHING from a hog when it is butchered. I mean EVERYTHING. Maybe on another page I'll tell you how we make hot dogs and scrapple.

I kept on moving up until I was in the wrapping department. Its a little cleaner and the screams and squeals of the dying hogs are far enough away that we could talk to each other without yelling all day.

I applied at Burger Delight for their management program. I was hired and worked all the jobs in the store. I had to take a whopping cut in pay but I thought I would have more of a future there. If it hadn't been for the Lord, I probably wouldn't have got the Burger Delight job so you see the Lord helps His children. I don't mean to brag but its not all that easy to get a job at Burger Delight.. Most of the people who worked there were high school kids. I was the oldest person.

Anyway, I got fired.

But that was good. The Lord got me fired there and then got me a job at the post office by a miracle. After only two weeks, they made me a supervisor. There were a lot of workers who could have been supervisors but they were very stupid and didn't take the job, so I got it.

Can you picture me going from butchering hogs to saying, "Want fries with that?" to giving orders to postal employees who had been there, sometimes 30 years.

My Early Life

I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I hated it. There weren't many white kids where I went to school and I got beat up almost everyday. I begged my parents to move but they believed they were helping me build good moral character and they were doing their part to stop prejudice. It was also cheap where we lived. That could be why I hated minorities for so long. But since I got saved, I don't hate them anymore like I did. I don't hate them anymore. I really don't.

My favorite music is Frank Sinatra and Hank Williams.

I have a parakeet but it doesn't talk yet. I did have two but one died.

I had a '73 Dodge but it threw a rod and now I'm temporarily riding a bike.

How I Came To Find Jesus And Accept Him

Ever since I was a little boy, I thought about getting right with God. I signed a prayer card when I was about 12 and promised to pray every day.

I started going to a Pentecostal Church with a neighbor and went down to the altar one Sunday night and got saved. The Christians there prayed over me and the next thing I knew I was speaking in tongues. Yes, I got the Holy Spirit the same night I excepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior.

My parents were very upset when I told them I got saved and baptized with the Holy Spirit. We was Catholics and my parents didn't believe anything but what the Catholic church told them. They cut off my allowance and my neighbor wouldn't take me to church anymore because I didn't have gas money to give him but I just walked to church.

I have been going ever since. Once you get saved, you like going to church.

Now I want to do my part to bring others to the Lord before it is too late for them.