I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio also known as the birthplace of aviation. Dayton is where the Wright Brothers started building the first airplane back in 1900. Aviation and airplanes have always been apart of my life.

I became interested in model airplanes when I was a small boy watching my father building and flying his models. As I grew older I became interested in R/C. I got my first R/C airplane at age fourteen. When I turned seventeen

I began flying real airplanes and I received my pilots license at nineteen.
My love for model aviation grew stronger as I got older and as the airplanes increased in size and complexity.
I have always enjoyed teaching people to fly R/C. I have trained kids as young as 5 years old and adults as old as 80. It's just a passion for me. I love it!

In 1990 I became a Christian. As I began to feel more and more called into ministry my desire to fly model airplanes lessened. It got to a point where I felt I had to make a decision to follow God and ministry or fly model airplanes. For me I could not do both and in frustration I sold all of my R/C equipment. I then began to focus on God for the first time in my life.

In 1994 I began my ministry education at the Rhema Bible College in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Upon graduating I founded the Godspeed Flight Demonstration Team, Inc. Godspeed is a faith-based, non-profit corporation. We use R/C model airplanes in an airshow style presentation to minister to children.

 Our program teaches children to follow their dreams and to never give up. The presentation centers around the story of the Wright Brothers, their Christianity and their childhood dream of the building a flying machine. We take this presentation into public elementary schools across the USA.

 

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