I was born in Dallas, TX in March, 1980. I have two older sisters and a twin sister. My dad grew up in New York, NY(Queens) and had Lutheran roots but attended a Dutch Reform church. My mom grew up in California and was raised a Methodist. When the two of them met and were married, they began attending a Presbyterian church. I grew up going to Northwest Bible Church in Dallas, formerly Northwest Presbyterian Church. Dallas Theological Seminary had the greatest influence there doctrinally. As a child, I considered myself a Christian because I was taught to ask Jesus into my heart. Of course, no one I knew actually did the works that Jesus did to be able to apply the term Christian to them. I remember talking to Jesus and to God as a child, but I did not know him. This never bothered me very much until I was a teenager, because I really didn't know I was missing anything.

When I was fourteen, God put a prayer in my heart. It was simple; I prayed, "God, I want to get to know you." Until the words came out of my mouth, I had never considered that I did not know God. He immediately began to answer that prayer, and over a period of a few weeks, began revealing Jesus to me through scripture. I was taught the Bible from a young age, and as a child I would read it myself, but until I was fourteen, it only produced death in me. But when God answered that prayer, I began to understand what I read, and words would seem to jump off the pages at me. This is when I believe I was born again. John 6:44 and John 14:6 go hand in hand, but they do not make any sense except by the Spirit. Until this time, I think I had always prayed to 'Jesus', or to 'God'. After this, however, I began to pray to the Father.

When I was just getting ready to go off to college, I started watching Doyle Davidson on television. The first thing I ever heard him say was "I have been with Jesus longer than any of you." I remember thinking that this was a bold statement and it caught my attention. I had never heard anyone make this statement: to have been with Jesus, meaning to have actually known the man. It was a very simple statement, but it caught my attention at the time. Through the teaching on television, I realized through the Bible that I needed to be baptized in water. My senior year in highschool, I was. It took a while for me to become involved with Water of Life Ministries. I was very bound up with the religion I was raised in. Add to that the religion that God allowed to affect me after I went off to school. I began attending services at Water of Life in Plano during the breaks from school from the year 2000 until I graduated in 2003. During my spring break in 2000 I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Soon after that, I was praying in tongues and I experienced a devil coming out of me for the first time. After I graduated college, I moved to Allen, TX and got a job in Richardson, TX and began attending Water of Life Plano regularly.

Sometime towards the end of 2006 I began actively seeking a new job, and in March 2007 I came on staff at Water of Life in Plano.