On a clear, clean crisp April night in Michigan, I was an eleven year old boy gazing at the stars with my first telescope. It was 1962; our president had promised we would be on the moon before the end of this decade. U.F.O. sightings were becoming an everyday occurrence. Project Bluebook was in the news and Hollywood bombarded us with science fiction that stirred the imagination.

Embedded in our young minds at that time was the ever-present threat of nuclear war. In school we practiced “duck and cover” air raid drills. At home on T.V. we saw commercials for fallout shelters, and the Cuban missile crisis climaxed the tense cold-war atmosphere of these times.

Tonight was a particularly clear night, you could see the Milky Way with it’s millions of stars. Each star a sun, how many having planets? How many would have intelligent life? How many could be more advanced? Do any know about us? Would they be peaceful and willing to help us out down here? Or would they be like the Hollywood monsters come only to conquer and destroy? And what about God?

So many questions...as an inquisitive boy somewhat aware of the world around me, I think I was typical of the mind set of the baby-boomer generation. This generation by the very nature of the climate we grew up in would yearn for answers and solutions to threats coming upon our world. It was as if an entire generation was a newly plowed field ready for planting...ready for something different or new.

My Background for this book:

Preventive Maintenance

I consider myself an open minded but guarded person when confronted with anything new or unconventional. I cannot offer any degrees bearing a title before or after my name. I am not a well-known figure of reputation. In spite of this, I have something important to say, as strange sounding as it is. Realizing how I would respond, in your shoes, I feel compelled to explain events about myself leading to this ministry. What may appear like a defensive position on my part is more of an act of “preventive maintenance”. Anticipating this valid skepticism, an explanation is the only logical thing I can offer.

Leave it to Beaver kid of the 50's

I was never a “religious” person. I was raised with no real specific beliefs. My parents who were a Ward and June Cleaver typical 50's family; lived and believed in God, country and Mom’s apple pie. Occasionally, they would make my brother and I attend Sunday school at a local Baptist church. I at least heard some basics without being indoctrinated into anything specific. They chose Baptist because their parents had been Baptist. Again, I believe this casual approach to God is typical of my generation in this country.

Intrigued by UFO’s

I had always been intrigued by U.F.O.’s and must of read everything written until the early 70's. There became an apparent occult connection and my interest waned as I did not believe in any spiritual realm. At this time I was concentrating on college and my business as an independent artist.(Metal sculptor) Newly married with one child, life was just too busy to chase after such elusive phenomena.

Tricked by a “Christian Book”

In 1974, I picked up a book at a local K-Mart. I was eager to read any new mystical books and had just read Von Danikien’s Chariots of the God’s. This book was, The Late Great Planet Earth, by Hal Lindsay. When I discovered that I had bought some “religious” book, I let it sit for about six months before I started to read it. Although I no longer hold to much of the Eschatology (study of end-time events) in this book, I will be forever thankful to the author and the inspiration of God’s Spirit in presenting the Gospel contained within the book. My response in a simple prayer introduced me to my Creator and began for me a personal relationship with him. Much different than a mere religion or change of ideas and philosophy, this was a literal experience with God in a supernatural relationship.

Whirlwind tour of weirdness.

Because I had no prior experience with organized church, I began a whirlwind tour, prayerfully searching for where I should go. This got me into an encounter with a cult group. This experience was very disheartening but a good lesson. Don’t trust anyone. Search the scriptures for myself and verify everything according to them

. In 1975 I was befriended by a man who has since authored several books on cults. I will leave him anonymous because he might prefer to distance himself from ideas that are so unconventional. He taught me how to use reference books to study the Bible in the original languages. I did some research for him on one of his books and fell in love with the whole research process.

But what about these UFO’s?

As a new Christian, I had a difficult time integrating my new faith with some of the knowledge I had about U.F.O.’s. For me this was a pressing issue. I really needed to have some answers by scripture. The apparent silence and lack of understanding by the church did not help. I had to dig for answers myself. In 1976, I received three scriptures; Genesis 6:1-13, Daniel 11:36-38 and Revelations 11:9. I knew by this that something happened before the flood that somehow was related to U.F.O’s and would possibly happen again in the “end-times.” The source was negative and not a good thing to follow. I was satisfied for the time and set it aside sensing that someday I would have to study further and write about it.

Some experience that counted

In 1979 I enrolled into an extension of Central Bible College in Detroit. (Assembles of God). At this time I was already in ministry full time. I had an inner city ministry working with gang’s. I n the 60's I had an experience as a member of a motorcycle club, and started one of the nation’s first evangelical Christian Motorcycle clubs, The King's Kids. (The ministry appeared on the 700 club in 1980.) In this type of “street” ministry, I had experienced many supernatural workings that could only be attributed as miracles from God. For me, a personal God had been proven time and time again by the experiences and “coincidences” that have resulted from prayer and exercising the power of His Spirit in life’s situations.

This is my background and the ?preparation I experienced for the next thing God had for me. I should of known after a Christian Bike Ministry that it would not be ordinary or conventional. Click on How it started for the story of how I was called into this.