I started playing the trumpet in fourth grade at Oaks Elementary School. I pity the music director who taught me in those beginning years. Of course, one of the things I really liked about the trumpet was that you could play it loud! All my life playing the trumpet, I have heard choir directors complain about how loud the trumpets …

A number of years ago, we served on a pastoral staff in Maryland with Dr. Shelton Smith. He had a great influence on our lives and our ministry. We moved to Maryland with a three-month-old baby girl, and planned to stay for about a year. We were praying and planning to go to the mission field, and thought that a …