25 Random Things About Me.

[Tim Elston]

I've enjoyed everyone's so far. Gerald, I'm glad you can't time travel.

1. I was a trumpeter in the 1980 Oregon All-State Band.

2. I slept in bed with a gay retired Army Coronel who was a stranger and had picked me up at the Philadelphia airport to have sex with me.

3. I am a forty-six year-old virgin. (Says something about how #2 went.)

4. I scored in the 99th percentile on the ASFAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery).

5. During my senior year of high school the Air Force recruiter tried to convince me to become a nuclear physicist, but I turned him down because "if I can't be a chaplain's assistant, then I don't want to go into the Air Force."

6. I was an Arabic linguist in the Air Force during the Gulf War.

7. On my first college test I spent fifty-five of sixty minutes writing the first answer because I had memorized the textbook chapters and stupidly tried to write it all down.

8. In my TC class with James Stone, I memorized all of his class notes for the final exam and wrote them all down verbatim.

9. My forty-nineth state to be in was Alaska, the forty-nineth state.

10. I dropped out of a Ph.D. program after two years.

11. I taught New Testament Greek at the Toronto School of Theology while studying there.

12. I have a master of arts degree in biblical studies from Denver Seminary and a bachelor of arts in linguistics from the University of Oregon.

13. I received the Zondervan Greek scholar award when I graduated from Denver Seminary in 1992.

14. I received the "Scholarship with Spirit," "Biblical Studies," and "English," awards when I graduated from Tomlinson College in 1982.

15. I have read War and Peace.

16. In the eighth grade in industrial arts, the CO2 car I designed won first place for speed and third place for appearance.

17. I once kneeled down in the hall of the mall in Klamath Falls, Oregon, lifted my hands holding the Bible, and prayed out loud for everyone there to receive Jesus, until a storekeeper came and asked me to leave.

18. In Grande Prairie, Alberta, when I was knocking on doors cold-turkey, I once put my foot in the door jam to keep a man from closing the door of his own house on me, and somehow I talked my way in and had a good visit with him.

19. I took two homeless men from the Eugene, Oregon, mission in to live with me, and they stayed with me for four years.

20. I haven't kissed a woman since 1993.

21. I have lived in Oregon, California, Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, Illinois, Ontario, Alberta, Alaska, Greece, and England.

22. I moved out of my parent's house at age seventeen and worked part-time through my senior year of high school, often eating only pancakes for days and weeks.

23. I was self-employed as a residential window cleaner in Denver for four years while I was studying at seminary.

24. I lettered in varsity wrestling at Stayton Union High School, Oregon.

25. I have been madly in love, screaming madly in love, with only one woman in my life, and she was too young for me.

[Full Quiver]

Teach, we already knew a lot of your stuff! Smile

(BTW I would like to know more about that counseling stuff!)

Wouldn't that be private?

[Dr. Ron]

This is great stuff....I am so glad to get to know some of you better.....in some cases it explains a lot.......

[stevenson]

Hmmmm,,,,,

1) I was raised in the church..literally went at least 4 times a week.
2) started drinking at the age of 12
3) which lead to a bet with my best friend that he couldn't hit a golf ball off my lips. I now have a fake front tooth!
4) Actually have recorded in a studio as a back-up singer.
5) sang gospel music but wasn't saved.
6) was a local radio dj until I met my wife.
7) Got saved and left radio and married the most gorgeous woman in the world.
Evangelized and sang in every state east of the Mississippi River.
9) Attended Kent State University.
10) Currently attending Central Ohio School of Ministry.
11) I am a DEA Associate.
12) My wife, son and I opened up for Lulu Roman & Aaron Wilburn last year.
13) We have worked for both Carman Ministries & Gaither Ministries.
14) worked for Drury Design Dynamics while in college. (television production crew)
15) Graduate of the Ohio School of Broadcasting
16) We have sung with several southern gospel groups and singers.
17) I have 5 kids and 2 grandkids with another grandchild on the way.
18) I got hit by a drunk driver when I was 19. He had a Ford truck and I had a Chevette..... he won the fight. I had to be shocked back to life! (Sorry, no bright lights at the end of the tunnel stories. I remember none of it)
19) Had the largest Youth Group in the COGOP in Ohio at one time. And the largest headache too, lol.
20) I am part French, Jewish & German. While everybody was having WW2, my family was getting together.
21) I have sung a full concert in a traditional Catholic Church.
22) I will soon be an ordained Bishop.
23) I collect old gospel records.
24) I am on several southern gospel forums.
25) I love all kinds of gospel music from DC Talk to Whitheart and beyond.

[Russell Roberts]

Tim Elston,

You have quite an impressive list of things about yourself my friend. Very impressive. I love the mental image of you kneeling in the mall with a bible praying for everyone in there to get saved!

[Jennifer Smith]

Teach, we already knew a lot of your stuff! Smile

(BTW I would like to know more about that counseling stuff!)

Wouldn't that be private?

That conversation could be. I only meant with regard to what type, or perhaps what was helpful, not particulars that would be personal.

[Susie Hamilton]

1. I was born at 8:37 am on Christmas morning in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
2. My family moved back to Ky when I was 5 years old and I remember the trip.
3. I grew up on a farm with pigs, cows and chickens and a big garden, I still love the taste of fresh food and milk.
4. I was a PK, my Dad was a COGOP pastor.
5. I was the first female bass drummer in a high school band in eastern Ky.
6. My great-great grandfather was known as the best fiddle player in east Ky and Southwestern Va. A few years ago we found out why, the fiddle was a Stratavarius.
7. I am 12 greats granddaughter of Pocahantus.
8. After high school, I moved back to Michigan for awhile and worked in a frozen pizza factory, moved back south after the snow melted.
9. I have a BS in Psychology and minor in English with emphasis in creative writing.
10. I almost lost my left leg when I crashed my motorcycle into the back of a car, forgot to use a ramp.
11. I have actually trained a rat in a Skinner box.
12. I was a Daddy's girl. I still miss my Dad.
13. I have slept in MA Tomlinson's bed in FOTW in the 80's.
14. I rode on the back of a motorcycle from FOTW to Richmond, Ky.
15. While in the USN, I assisted in uncovering a spy, can't say anymore about that.
16. I have been to the Vatican and was 3 feet from JP2. Took a walking tour of Rome, it was awesome.
17. I am a cancer survivor.
18. I have been to Italy, France, Spain, Sicily, Hawaii, and Gitmo.
19. I play banjo, guitar and piano, all self taught.
20. I cannot play from music but I can write it.
21. I have had about 15 poems published.
22. I need order in my life, I can't stand chaos.
23. I am a private person, I don't like the spotlight, I like being in the background.
24. I have actually met Dwight Youkum and been on his tour bus to talk with him, my nephew bought his family homeplace a few houses down from my Mom's house.
25. I love God, Family and Country.

Bonus 1. I am an easy going person, I can take a lot, but once it gets to my limits, watch out. I am a Postal employee, don't make me go Postal.

[Jennifer Smith]

Gerald, Sam has never lost a game of Trivial Pursuit as well, and in fact, when I met him, he would take on a roomful of 30 or 40 people from our college group on one huge opposing team! (Of course, alot of his technique was, "Is that your final answer?" kind of stuff.... ) You two will have to get together sometime for a game.

For Valentine's Day I got Sam a new Digital Trivial Pursuit game... you can download your family's favorite categories. I hope it will make the game even more fun! (I always maintained I could beat him were it not for that sports category!)

[soulsearcher]

1. A few of my favorite things: rain, masking tape, Vicks Vapo-Rub, candles, ginger ale.
2. I know how to set letterpress type.
3. I am the oldest of four children and the oldest grandchild on both sides of my family.
4. I was a curious little boy and once put my hand through a wringer to "see how the clothes felt."
5. I learned to play the piano by watching other people and listening to phonograph records.
6. I have swung on many a kudzu vine.
7. I had a dog I named, "October." She lived 16 years.
8. My favorite color is green.
9. I have always felt I was born in the wrong era of time.
10. I enjoy observing people, but am really not a people person.
11. I do not like the spotlight.
12. I do not like my voice.
13. I was a full-time music arranger and producer for 15 years.
14. I am one of the biggest Classic Movie fans on the planet.
15. I was in two first grades and two third grades.
16. There is a piece of lead in my wrist, from a childhood mishap.
17. I've been to Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Germany, England, Nigeria, Honduras, Chili and Argentina.
18. I was chosen as "International Youth Camp Representative" from my state camp in Indiana. Later that summer, at IYC, is where I met my future wife, Mary Sue.
19. I Love Lucy can stop me dead in my tracks every time, even though I have seen every episode a hundred times and can quote most of the dialogue word for word.
20. I still miss my sister-in-law, Juanita.
21. I'm the composer of 23 songs.
22. I have a good eye for photography, design and decorating.
24. I have been a member of 8 traveling singing groups.
25. I sometimes feel that I am invisible.

[Tim Elston]

I sometimes feel that I am invisible.

I heard that.

[RamboPreacher]

I sometimes feel that I am invisible.

I heard that.

what?...
who said that?...

[teach]

Teach, we already knew a lot of your stuff! Smile

(BTW I would like to know more about that counseling stuff!)

Wouldn't that be private?

That conversation could be. I only meant with regard to what type, or perhaps what was helpful, not particulars that would be personal.

It's cool, I am pretty much an open book... It has gone well. I learned alot about myself, set some boundaries in dating and I am happy being single and somewhat patient...

wendy k

[teach]

[quote="Jennifer Smith"]
Teach, we already knew a lot of your stuff! [/quote

so, should I do this again and put a bunch of stuff you guys don't know about me?

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(more later)......................

Brian, it looks like you have quite a life ahead of you.

[Tim Elston]

Teach, we already knew a lot of your stuff!

so, should I do this again and put a bunch of stuff you guys don't know about me?

Yes, I'd like that because I think you're cute.