A Short Biography

 My wife Mo and I were both raised as Roman Catholics and grew up in Long Island, New York. In our teenage years our families moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and in the Lord’s perfect timing, we met - and married in 1966. I entered a career in advertising as a copywriter, working in several of Manhattan’s largest ad agencies, while Mo worked at Maryknoll, a Catholic missionary order headquartered in Ossining, New York, where we bought our first home. With the births of our four children, Tara, Chris, Brendan, and Todd, Mo switched to full-time mom and eventually we moved to Stamford, Connecticut.

From a worldly point of view, we were climbing the American ladder of success quite nicely. But then, in 1973, Jesus interrupted our comfortable little lives and showed us how shallow it all was compared to knowing Him. The story of how God shocked me into realizing I only knew about Him; how we both had a dramatic encounter with Him on a Marriage Encounter weekend; how He eventually brought us out of Catholicism and then Protestantism; and how He led us to leave all our worldly success and come follow Him is told in my book, Valley of the Steeples.

In 1982, after an adventurous six-year walk of faith, we were led back into the “normal” work-a-day world. I returned to my advertising profession in Philadelphia, and Mo began a successful career in real estate. Over the years the Lord opened several doors of ministry, but nothing permanent. I co-hosted a talk show on Christian radio called OPAL, Ordinary People with Agape Love, for a year-and-a half. As OPAL we organized an event in Philadelphia called Dependence Day, where we invited all those “with ears to hear” to come before God and publicly repent of our independence from Him.

Then, as God slowly awakened us to His restoration of Israel, I became involved with organizations that blessed the returning Jews and fought against anti-Semitism, such as the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, Shalom International, Jerusalem USA and the Zionist Organization of America. In 1984, we led a tour to Israel. During these years I wrote most of the articles found on this web site.

Today we both work in real estate and live in southeastern Pennsylvania. Our four children, their spouses and our seven precious grandchildren live close by.

And now, after 25 years outside the organized church, God is directing us to step forth and boldly tell our story in order to awaken His people to the falseness of institutional Christianity. And to get ready for the Lord’s return and the final chapter in His salvation of Israel.