number 2

Alright, what's up everyone I hope you enjoyed last weeks introduction.  Today will be the first real story about me and I'm gonna start by telling you a little about my childhood.  This may help you to understand where some of my beliefs, behaviors and twisted ideas come from.  HAHA.  So my mom and dad married when they were young.  My father was 19 and my mom was 16 and I was born the next year.  I have a younger brother and sister I will discuss in future post.  My dad was a minister at that time and my mom went to church as well and played the piano and sang.  My dad's mom was also a minister and started her own church in Grover when I was five.  My mom's mom died when my mom was five and her dad was freaking awesome.  He and my mom and her family are from Arkansas.  We went to the church of God until my grandma opened her church and then we started there at Bible Holiness in Grover, NC.  I grew up kinda feeling like everything was a sin and God was always mad at you for messing up.  These ideas come from the old pentacostal church and are not things that we believe now at our church.  But I remember when I was young that some of the older church members would even say, "GO Ahead and keep it up God is gonna git ya."  Well when I grew older and read the bible for myself and really understood it I realized that God is not mad, he is not a hitman, and he is not out to "git ya".  If you didn't grow up in an old school pentacostal church then you probably won't understand what I mean by all that.  Anyway when I was young my dad started drinking and got out of church and progressively got worse.  My mom stayed in church and backed his mom in her ministry and when my grandma got sick, and eventually died, my mom took over as pastor.  The name of the church is now Proclaiming the Word Ministries.  My mom toughed it out and put up with his drinking, womanizing and committing adultry and stayed with my dad for a very long time and they eventually divorced when I was about 15.  The same time that I met my wife to be.  So from all that you can see why half of my blood is Cain's blood and half of my blood is Abel's.  However, I try to be good for the most part, haha.  As a side note I would like to mention that my dad has stopped drinking, smoking and other things and is now back in church and living for God.  I think that is awesome.  He has been an alcoholic for about 30 years now and I am soooooo proud of the change that he has recently made.  I didn't know if it would stick at first but he has done great.  I will tell you the rest of that story in a later post.  I hope this gives you a little insight and keeps you reading.  Better things to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Sorry I can't think of a good quote to go with this one.  LOL!!" 
                                                                    ~Daniel Hoyle~