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About Me

I am a father of 6 and married to the same woman since 1974. God Bless her!! Our kids are well on their way to having or starting their own families blessing us with 10 grandchildren.In my young and crazy days I played music professionally full time in various groups based out of Michigan and even did some recording in Nashville, but then got interested in computers in the mid 80's which led me to my software design and management day job!! Hey, it pays the bills,OK!!!I now play in a Contemporary Christian Rock Band called:Ben Walther BandThis group joined together my love of God, of music and a chance to bring others closer to God by the gift of music ministry. Joining this group has been one of the greatest joys of my life. Even if they are all younger than me!!If I get time, I love to fish!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Tom Booth - Plus sit in with him some time. I got to use his amp at the Life Teen 20 year bash, but that is as close as I got. He seems to be the genuine article!!Stephen Curtis Chapman - Do I need to explain?!!I've met Matt Maher, but would love to sit in with him sometime as well. Boy, has he raised the bar in our music genre!!Fr. Stan Fortuna, Chris Tomlin and Dave Crowder come to mind as well.In the secular world, I'd love to meet Carlos Santana, Dick Wagner, Leslie West, The Edge, Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, BB King and so many others that influenced my style of play.Politically, if she is still around, I'd love to chat with Jean Kirkpatrick.I'd also like to meet Bill Clinton and ask him the big question: Did you really inhale?

My Blog

Hacked

Yesterday I was hacked.  I can't believe I fell for it.  I am usually on top of these sort of things.  I am extremely mad and may drop out of MySpace and just use facebook. Keep it up ...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:16:00 GMT

Finally got some new pics up

I made some new friends recently out at camp Cho Yeh and finally got them posted on this site.  I hope they will enjoy them!! They were really a great group and I learned from them as well!! God ...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:30:00 GMT

Great Weekend!!

I just got back from a great weekend with an bunch of great teens.  My small group rocked!!  It was the best small group I have participated with to date.  I was very blessed and I hope...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:09:00 GMT

Another one down!!

This last weekend we married off the youngest of my 4 extremely beeeaaaautiful daughters!!  Jillian, Marta, Carrie and Christy!!  Of course I am biased!! We had the usual "franticness", fea...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:18:00 GMT

Catching up

I am back from Steuby Atlantic.  What an experience!!  I hope we are asked back to this event.  I hope we touched some teens.  I learned a lot about the complexity of our church ar...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:07:00 GMT

Back from Steuby East!!

We just got back late on Sunday night from Steuby East II.  Both Steuby weekends had quite an impact on me.  Each had it's unique events or things that caught my attention.  I even got ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:58:00 GMT

Geez!!

Please pray for very close persoanl friends Carol and Dave.  They were hurt very seriously in a motorcycle accident last Sunday.  Each had to go to separate hospitals and Carol is hardly coh...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:13:00 GMT

Death

This coming Friday I will be attending my third funeral in less than a month's time.  One was for a teen who just went to sleep and never woke up, the other for my youngest sister's hus...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:56:00 GMT

Back from Vacation

Just got back from Michigan and had a great vacation!!  I got to see all my kids and their kids.  I even started infringing on Marian's monopoly on being the favorite grandparent!! &nbs...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:04:00 GMT

Let Go and Let God!

How many times have we heard this and forgot the meaning?  Forgetting is so strange, because for me ...when I really let Him do His thing, stuff always works out for the better.  So why is t...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:40:00 GMT