I was raised in a Christian home, going to church almost every Sunday. As a teen I became rebellious, ending up in reform school in Red Wing Minnesota. After getting out and graduating from High School, I joined the Navy, and while in a seaplane patrol squadron, received Christ as my personal savior.

After the Navy, I attended Briercrest Bible Institute in Saskatchewan, Canada for one year. While involved in the missions program, I did personal evangelism on the street as well as door to door. Another student and I started a skid row mission.

I was married in 1967 and in 1969, my family and I moved to Morrison Colorado, where I attended Western Bible Institute. At Western, I had a ministry to hippies in Denver,and was introduced to to an open air mission called Open Air Campaigners (OAC). I helped lead a student open air preaching ministry until graduation.

After Bible school our family moved back to Minneapolis, Minnesota where I worked as a volunteer with OAC. In 1972, I joined OAC as a full time evangelist and was licensed to preach the gospel through the Conservative Baptist Church. In OAC, I was involved in reaching children, teens, and adults in parks, beaches, on the street and wherever people would congregate. I helped train others in open air evangelism at Moody Bible Institute's summer program.

After four years with OAC, I returned to secular work and focused on personal evangelism as a lay teacher trainer with Evangelism Explosion. Recently I have written tracts and developed training tools for building confidence in doing personal evangelism.

I founded Mountaintop Ministry in 2005 as an evangelistic association for the purpose of equipping Christians in personal evangelism.