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Hi, I am Garry Matheny.
I was born in 1950. When I was 18, I wrecked a brand-new car, which upset my dad. Almost died from that wreck and decided I would try to make my dad proud of me. He wanted me to join the Navy; I did, he wanted me to be a diver, simply because he liked watching a TV series (Sea Hunt), so I became a Navy Diver. “Honor your father and mother… the Fifth Commandment, but I did not know the Bible then, and the church we went to never told us how to be saved. I was saved in the Navy through God’s faithful witness.
I became a Navy Saturation Diver and was on the nuclear submarine USS Halibut 587, received the Legion of Merit, and surrendered to serve our Lord while in Siberia on a then-classified special op. I graduated from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College in 1979, and Nancy and I were married then. We started a church in Poulsbo, WA, and got it self-supporting, then went off to Romania as missionaries for 30 years, starting three more churches and a Bible Institute. We are both in our 70s and trying to start another church, but it is going slow. Still, we are having fun; I could not be happy sitting in front of a TV set till I died. (^:
Thank you all for being lights for Jesus Christ!
I was born in 1950. When I was 18, I wrecked a brand-new car, which upset my dad. Almost died from that wreck and decided I would try to make my dad proud of me. He wanted me to join the Navy; I did, he wanted me to be a diver, simply because he liked watching a TV series (Sea Hunt), so I became a Navy Diver. “Honor your father and mother… the Fifth Commandment, but I did not know the Bible then, and the church we went to never told us how to be saved. I was saved in the Navy through God’s faithful witness.
I became a Navy Saturation Diver and was on the nuclear submarine USS Halibut 587, received the Legion of Merit, and surrendered to serve our Lord while in Siberia on a then-classified special op. I graduated from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College in 1979, and Nancy and I were married then. We started a church in Poulsbo, WA, and got it self-supporting, then went off to Romania as missionaries for 30 years, starting three more churches and a Bible Institute. We are both in our 70s and trying to start another church, but it is going slow. Still, we are having fun; I could not be happy sitting in front of a TV set till I died. (^:
Thank you all for being lights for Jesus Christ!
