Let me start out by saying I started praying for a, “Reason for My Being” almost one year ago.  I’m not sure how to describe it; “My Cause?”, “My Mission Statement?”, “My Purpose in life?”  Nonetheless, I worked at a job that I didn’t particularly like, not the people they were and are like family to me, but the work!  I never bragged about what I did nor did I like to talk about it.  You see, I worked at a job called “Bethlehem” and we specialized in cleaning the sewer system.  Talk about America’s dirtiest jobs,  I had one of them. Why did I stay there for eight years? You might ask.  Well, when God talks about giving us a “peace that passes all understanding…”,  that’s what He gave me when I first started working there.  Not to mention a family of Christian brothers, where I could grow and get grounded in the word, as I had desired. But Last year, I started having a strong desire to want to sing again and so I began praying and asking God where He wanted me to go.

At the end of 2006, I received an answer to my prayer. I can now proudly say I love my job and I want to sing praises to my God and worship Him all day long.  In fact that’s what I do today, I work at a church full time where I have the opportunity of leading others into that same worship of our Father in Heaven.  I now help lead worship at a church in Southern California called: “Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa.”  It was somewhat comical, a friend of mine left me a message on my phone about one week into my new position at Calvary.  He said I needed to change my message… that I didn’t work at Bethlehem any more and that I’m now officially at Calvary.  I didn’t think much about it, but later that week I was listening to my pastor, pastor Chuck Smith, on a Wednesday night. He was speaking about the “Road to Calvary,” and that’s when it hit me; “From Bethlehem to Calvary!”  It was so clear to me, this is where God has me in my life right now and that’s all I need to say. Christ was born in Bethlehem and He died on Calvary. That is the true message of this album.  I never dreamed that those same words would have such a personal meaning in my life.  This is where God has me today, right where He wants me, from Bethlehem to Calvary.