I gave my life to the Lord at age 16 and felt a calling to go into the ministry at age 29. After an earnest seeking of that calling, it became evident that God was placing me in a music ministry and the journey has been incredible!
My musical training comes by way of my father, the public school system and Ben Speer's Stamps-Baxter School of Music where I spent a couple months of intense training under mentors Jack Clark, Harold Lane, Eugene McCammon, Daryl Williams and Ben Speer.
I now write for the southern convention-style songbooks as well as for myself, my choirs and some of the performers of Southern Gospel and Inspirational music. I have also had the incredible blessing of co-writing with some of Gospel music's great songwriters in Tery Wilkins, David Hanvelt, Chris Binion, Fawn Jacobs, and Steven Cheney as well as Inspirational writer Gregory Lousignont. The song that has been most successful for me to date is "If It Wasn't For The Cross," co-written with Tery Wilkins and performed most recently by Rob Helton. That performance peaked at #32 on the Singing News Chart for December 2009.
The songs placed on Sibelius are
those I've used with our small church choir and with our local high
school chorus. They have also found use in children's choirs.
I live in the wonderful community of Moundsville where I'm
also a church choir director, Sunday School teacher and youth leader.
My husband, Bill, is a retired school teacher and continues to
be active in our public schools, local church and Lions Club. I
have been blessed with the most awesome family and life experiences
which I share more about in my photos pages.
