I am a native of Iowa and converted to Christ at the age of eight. Education includes Oakdale Christian High School, Jackson, Kentucky. Kentucky Mountain Bible College, Vennard College (University Park, Iowa), Indiana Wesleyan University, and Anderson (Indiana) School of Theology. The experience involved four pastorates with Free Methodist and Wesleyan denominations in Kentucky, Iowa, and Indiana. Missionary service through World Gospel Mission (Marion, Indiana) to Indonesia, three years. More missionary work with the Church of the Bible Covenant in Lesotho, South Africa (four years). For five years, I was a Bible, theology, and church history teacher at Union Bible College, Westfield, Indiana. Married to Mary Ellen Smith (Mt. Erie, Illinois) for fifty years. Four children and sixteen grandchildren. I am "refired" in Wesleyan Bible Prophecy writing and publishing ministries and working part-time in the home remodeling industry.