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I live in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. I semi-retired in December, 2000, after having been on the ministerial staff of Calvary Baptist Church in Lexington since 1969. During my 31 years at Calvary Baptist, I served in positions of organist, youth choir director, minister of youth, minister of pastoral care, interim minister of singles (for three years), minister of music and finally as the first director of the Interfaith Samaritan Counseling Center which was a ministry of the church. Presently I am no longer "semi-retired."
Currently, I am no longer semi-retired. I am on the music staff of Centenary, a United Methodist Congregation, in Lexington, serving as organist and handbell director. I teach Spanish for the Donovan Program of the University of Kentucky. Also, I teach English as a New Language and Russian privately. A new addition to my schedule began in August, 2007. Now, I am also on the staff of First United Methodist Church, Andover in Lexington, serving as Pastor of Music Ministries at the new congregation. As you can see, I am always extremely busy...never bored.. Visit my webpage often. My life, like my webpage, is always changing. Come back soon because I'll be adding photos from my trips to Russia, Cuba and Vietnam.

In August, 2007, I began serving First United Methodist Church, Andover as Pastor of Music Ministries. I will continue serving at Centenary United Methodist as Organist and Handbell Director. Below is a photo of the first Sunday morning worship service in the church on October 7, 2007. The sun was streaming in the stained glass window and there were more than 300 people in the congregation. Click on the arrow to the right of the photo to see more of the new church.

Some of my interests are:
                   Travel
               Genealogy
            Music
         Russian
      Spanish
   Teaching English as a New Language
Teaching Spanish as a New Language to Americans

Organ recital on the 63 rank, 6,355 pipe Reuter Pipe Organ at Centenary United Methodist Church.

Visit the webpage of Centenary, a United Methodist Congregation.
www.centenarylex.org

January, 2005

Important people in my life

Travel

My interest in travel began in 1985 when I went to the Soviet Union with a group to visit some historic churches. In the following years, I learned the Russian language and returned to the Soviet Union and later to Russia 10 times. During those trips, I made many friends, had the opportunity to preach and play organs in many Russian churches. On my last trip, I served as interpreter for a church music professor who lectured in both in Leningrad and Moscow at the music conservatories. Also, during those 10 years I visited Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. In 1992 I went to Jamaica. Sweden and Denmark were my destinations in 1994. Then, in 1996 I went to Hong Kong and Vietnam. In 1997 I was in Budapest, Hungary and in 1998 in Austria and the Czech Republic. In 1999 I toured Europe on a rail pass, visiting Belgium, England, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Italy, and Switzerland. In January, 2000, at the turn of the millenium, I visited Japan, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore. In the year 2000 I was in Mexico (Cancun) for one day as I traveled to Havana, Cuba, where I stayed for two weeks. My last trip, in the year 2002, I spent two weeks in Spain, France and Germany and Austria. Much of my travel was a result of being on a work group for the Baptist World Alliance.