Our story starts off quite simple. I met my bride at band camp in the hot and sticky summer of 1988. Even though I had feelings for her from first sight, me and Tammy started off our life together simply as friends first. That first year of high school was just as normal as any …
My eyes had been opened and my life had changed. By His grace and His grace alone, I am here today. And though I had been through a rough time in the past, my life was coming together after I had finally turned my entire life, not just part of it, over to God. One …
Over those three and half years, I lived a worldly life while, in secret, Tammy prayed. The year of 2005 was perhaps my lowest point. Having just changed jobs and working for a German company with an office based here in the United States, I had just returned from one of several trips to Germany. …
During Labor Day weekend of that first year in North Carolina, Tammy and mom were down for a visit. She still had another month to go before she could officially move. My mom liked our little apartment though she did not like the steps all that well. Our apartment was on the second floor so …
By the year 2000, Tammy had transitioned away from the branch and was working in the back office of the same bank as an analysist. Her job included setting up the rates for new products and researching problems which were discovered after a product had gone live. In the banking industry, products are what they …
For the first few years of our marriage, we just lived life the best we could in WV. As any newly married couple can attest too, life throws challenges your way every day and one’s character is often judged by how you react to those challenges. Jobs were hard to find and when you found …
“Who presents this woman to this man to be married?”, the pastor asked. “Her mother and I”, replied Tammy’s father. As our pastor read these words from the Book of Ephesians in his King James Bible, I looked at my bride and tears rolled down my cheeks. I asked her, “Baby, are you OK?”. She …
We wanted to wait until after Tammy had graduated from West Virginia State College, however due to a scheduling issue with the last class that she needed, she had to wait another semester. Tammy had started working a part-time job as a teller for a large bank in the area. This new job allowed her …
Fall of 1995 had arrived and I decided to stay full-time with the WV Treasury and switch to being a part-time student at WVSC. Tammy continued her full-time studies while working part-time at the grocery store and she had also taken on a part-time job at the secretary typing lab assisting them with keeping their …
Still without our own vehicles, and not having enough money to stay on campus, we took turns over the next three years riding together in one of our parent’s cars to college every day. Thankfully WVSC was only a thirty-five-minute drive or so from our parent’s houses. Basically we lived in one of these two …