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Elder Wade Martin

You do not have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

About Me

I am retired army with a wife and three boys.I am from Fairfield, California originally, but am now in Alabama where my wife is from. I am an ordained elder in the Church of God in Christ, I am also a national adjutant in the Church of God in Christ. I have traveled all over the world in the military and have been in other C.O.G.I.C. churches in California, New York, and Germany as well. I am a musician who has been playing the trumpet for about 20 years. I have played with such artists as, Elder Timothy Wright, Evangelist Ruby Terry, the Mississippi Mass Chior, and Dr. Venard Johnson. I love gospel music and listen to it every where I go. I am fairly outgoing, so I love to meet new people and I love to talk. I also love to listen to other people who are going through, or just want to talk and offer them encouragement or a freindly ear. I am also in a interacial marriage, is it not wonderful. Currently I enjoy taking care of veterans like myself, my way of giving back to my country. All in all I am just blessed to serve God and God's men and people.
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My Interests

I love art and music, even though I only play and listen to gospel or other christian music, a liitle jazz sometimes. I am a collecter of all things military and read quite a bit. I foremost love to help people by listening to them and trying to give them Godly advice to a solution. I also enjoy international relations, politics, the study of terrorism, wmd's, religions and cults, and just whatever will start an intelligent conversation. Another thing I have always liked is interior design and enjoy helping people decorate or redecorate thier homes or spaces, just something I have always had an interest in. I also enjoy art of all kinds. Of course the adjutancy is a passion of mine, and trying to learn all I can.

I'd like to meet:

Other saints in the Church of God in Christ, and just saints in general that love God. Veterans, like myself, christian musicians and just people who would like to be friendly, but respect me for who I am and what I am. I would also like to meet other interacial couples, and couples who are saved. Also just meeting good people who can have an intelligent conversation about anything and we can agree to disagree if neccessary.Also like to meet ones that I grew up with or went to school with.Life is too short to deal with people who are not real and I am here to meet new and great people. So know that it takes two to make a conversation and networking is beneficial for both of us. Just want to meet people who are real and do not have to hide behind a facade. I am secure in me and am not interested in people who are trying to change that.
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Music:

Gospel , Contemperary Christian, Praise and Worship, Instrumental Jazz, and Classical(Marches are my favorite). The video below is of Fairfield High School Scarlet Brigade Marching Band, Lincoln Band Review, 1990, my junior year.This video below is of Fairfield High School Scarlet Brigade Marching Band, Vallejo Band Review, 1988, my freshman year.

Movies:

Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Star Wars series, Star Trek series, Indiana Jones trilogy, James Bond movies, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Transformers the Movie,etc.

Television:

Dicovery and Discovery-Times Channel, TLC, The Military Channel, The History Channel, Food Network, Gospel Music Channel, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, National Geographic Channel.

Books:

The Bible, all books military, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Machiavelli"s The Prince, books on infectious diseases, Tom Clancy novels, Harold Coyle novels, Ralph Peters novels,

Heroes:

Jesus, Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson, Martin Luther King Jr., Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr.,Bishop J. Delano Ellis,Bishop Paul S. Morton,Dr. Adrian Rodgers,etc. more to come.

My Blog

Some goals for 2008 and beyond.

This is the beggining of a new year, the year of new begginings and I just wanted to convey some of my goals for this year and beyond. As always I want to be more in God and continue to aspire for tha...
Posted by Elder Wade Martin on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:03:00 PST

Reflections of 2007

I am writing this to reflect on the events in my life in 2007. It has been a rolercoaster year in death and then promotion, what a year. From losing some dear family members to being promoted to highe...
Posted by Elder Wade Martin on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:07:00 PST

100th Holy Convocation of the Church of God in Christ

I am writing this to chronicle my expierence in Memphis and to tell you what I thought about the week I spent with the saints. It started off well as a friend of mine rode with me from Birmingham...
Posted by Elder Wade Martin on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:35:00 PST

Interracial Relationships!

I just got a message this morning from a gentleman named Leo concerning my relationship with my wife. He says that God and himself were offended of our being together and that it was a sin. He feels t...
Posted by Elder Wade Martin on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:34:00 PST

Should we teach denominational loyalty? Part 1

    How can we be loyal without being bigots?     Change. Diversity. The new economy. The postmodern church. Millenial kids. Such words and concepts seem to dominatewhat ...
Posted by Elder Wade Martin on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:32:00 PST