Risen Witness

BIOGRAPHY: ABOUT RISEN WITNESS
EDWIN CORDELL MOORE:
The son of the late Robert Edwin Moore and still living Kathryn Joyce Moore, born Aug. 13,1949 at Martins Ferry Ohio. Ed graduated from Warren consolidated high school in Tiltonsville Ohio and later attended Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. Ed is married to Christy L. Moore and has two daughters Deni Fowler and Carrie Nobile. Ed is the proud “Pappy” of four grandchildren. Ed is the owner of Moore’s Music Emporium in Bridgeport, Ohio.Ed was raised in the Methodist Church and was later ordained though the Christian Church and is now a Minister of Music.At the age of twelve, Ed was embarrassed into learning to play the guitar and has been playing music ever since. He has played in such bands as Wild Cherry, Sweetwater and Stranger and is now in a Christian group called “Risen Witness”. When Ed was playing secular music his bands opened concerts for such bands as Uriah Heap, Nazareth, Charlie Daniels, Santana, B.T.O. Foghat and many other well known 70’s bands. He was signed with Dunhill Records, and has done recordings for other labels as well. In 1968 Ed lost his best two friends, both killed in car accidents .The depression that followed brought Ed to seek a deeper meaning to life. After ten years of study of the different faiths, cults and philosophies, Ed received Jesus as Lord and Savior.After a few years of trials and backsliding, Ed met Christy in church and married her on Nov.12 1982.They now minister in prisons and numerous churches, bringing the Good News in music and the Word.CHRISTY L. MOORE:Born in Pontiac, Michigan to an unwed mother, at the age of three, she was in court to be given up for adoption where her grandparents fought to gain custody of her. They won the judgment, but had to leave the state to get it, so they ended up in St. Clairsville, Ohio.Over the years as time passed and she grew, she found the world to be a cruel, judgmental place - even in the little Methodist church she grew up in. She found she couldn’t trust “family” either. Some grandfathers and cousins husbands didn’t “play” nice, and “children were to be seen and not heard”, so who could you tell when you didn’t want to hurt anyone...One day when searching for an envelope to mail yet another letter out to her “sister” who loved and understood her, she stumbled upon a drawer full of those letters that had never been mailed. When she asked why, she was told to sit down. As the story began to unfold, she found out that the one she had believed to be her sister was really her mother, and that she had a half- brother, and three half-sisters!A phone call followed not long after, and her real mother had no where to live because her husband had just shot and killed a man and was going to the Michigan state prison. Her newly found family moved in the small farmhouse with them and she thought this would be great, but found the children clung to their mother and hated her, for fear she might take their mother away.With self-esteem low and feeling pushed away, she turned to her boyfriend for comfort who told her that intimacy was the way you proved your love. Three months later she found out she was pregnant, they married and had a baby girl. The husband, realizing he was out from under his fathers control, turned wild. He began dealing drugs, joined a biker gang, and became very physically and mentally abusive. She was told that her husband was cheating on her with all her friends, but how could that be true when he loved her? Then she caught him with one of her sisters. Time went on, things just got worse.When woken up from her nap one day, the little girl crawled out of her crib and ran to her daddy, hanging on his arm pleading, “Please, don’t hit my mommy no more!”Knowing things were now effecting her little girl, Christy knew she had to do something - but how? Her husband would log-chain her car to the trailer hitch and tie a string over the outside of the door to see if she came outside. Who could help and how could she be free?She found herself at another outlaw biker event watching helplessly as people were shot and killed, run over with trucks, and raped just yards from her.With fear gripping her and feeling like it would be best just to end it all and at least get her daughter away from this lifestyle, the Lord gently spoke to her on that hillside and said, “This is not what I had planned for your life, your purpose in this life is much greater...”.Which brings us to today... One word from God can turn a life around for good!The road that leads us back has many turns... He takes us through bad choices, though divorce, through cancer, through many lessons, to restoration, to healing, to completeness, till we shine like him and radiate a life with nothing missing, nothing broken.Today, Christy and her now husband Ed, of 25 years, have a ministry called “Risen Witness”.Two lives combined as one ministry where they share their powerful testimonies in churches, outdoor festivals, and prisons in Word and with their band.