Ok, Im taking up the challenge of posting 10 things most people outside of my family, doesnt know about me. 1. My family moved about 6 times before I was 5 years old. Each time we moved it was within just a few miles from we started out. 2. I used to go crawdad fishing in a mud hole next to the road beside our house in OK. Mom actually encouraged it to keep me out from under foot. She fixed me up a stick with a string tied on the end of it; she tied a piece of bacon fat on the end if the string and sent me on my way. She was sure there was nothing in that hole to catch, but you can imagine the look of surprise on her face when I came back into the house with a crawdad hanging on to that piece of bacon. I must have been about 3-4 years old. 3. My first girlfriend was a little Mexican girl named Mary Ann Sandoval. We were in the first grade together in Albuquerque, NM. My uncle Albert found about her when he caught me calling her on the phone, and he tormented me to total embarrassment. 4. One day in that same school the boy sitting in the desk behind mine tapped me on the shoulder; when I turned my head around toward him he stabbed me in the cheek with a freshly sharpened pencil, and broke the pencil lead off in my face. Thats one reason I wear my sideburns fairly long. It covers up the hole in the side of my face. 5. I always wanted to learn to play the guitar. My dad had an old guitar that was broken past the point of being playable. 3 of the tuning pegs were broken off by some drunken neighbor who had borrowed it for an evening. When I was sixteen a friend who lived down the street from us in Dinosaur, CO. saw me working on that guitar. He went home and dug out a plastic bodied guitar that was about 1/2 the size of a standard sized guitar and he gave it to me. That was my first guitar. With the help of a chord chart I learned my first 3 major chords and learned to play You are my Sunshine” without either of my parents knowing. One evening I was sitting on the edge of my bed strumming those flimsy little plastic strings on that plastic bodied guitar and my mom happed to hear me. She was absolutely thrilled. That was all the encouragement I needed to fill my sails with a hopeful driving gust. My dada took the broken tuning pegs off his guitar and replaced them with the ones off my plastic guitar, and began teaching me some basic things of guitar playing. Later we found another old guitar somewhere and started playing together. That year for Christmas my parents bought my brother and I matching electric six-strings. We about drove them crazy after that, playing everything from Buck Owens to CCR tunes. lol 6. My first car was a 1955 Pontiac Chieftain, and man I loved that car like it was my dear grandmother. I worked for several years in my Dads auto shop and never asked for anything in the way of a paycheck. It was a family business and we all did our part as a family to keep some money coming into the home. My Dad was a Southern Baptist Bi-Vocational Pastor in a small church in western CO. He led people to the Lord there at that shop. People who were broke down on the highway, and we were repairing their vehicles. Some of them he baptized at the Church house on Sunday, if they were still in town. LOL Well, after several years working in that old shop my Dad came up with a second car. It was a 1960-61 Lincoln Continental. One day he had me pull the old Pontiac into the shop. It was still our Family car. He told me to start disassembling the engine; we were going to overhaul it. By the time we finished up on that old Pontiac, it had a shop-Rebuilt engine, Transmission, new brakes and a new paint job. When we were finished with all the repairs, he handed me the keys and told me it was mine. That was how he paid me for all the precious hours I spent with the man, as he taught me so many things concerning cars, life, and the Lord. What a blessing my parents were to me. 7. I didnt move out of my parents’ house until I was married. I was 2 months shy of turning 20 when my girlfriend Glenda and I decided we werent waiting another minute to tie the knot. We had been engaged for about a year when we did get married. We were KIDS. We even looked like KIDS. We had to take our marriage license with us on our honeymoon so we could even rent a motel room. LOL About 3 months later I received a Draft notice in the mail. I ended up selling my66 Ford 2 Dr. and we drove my old Pontiac around until I had to leave for the service. We lost everything we owned over that ordeal, but we emerged with so much more. 8. I wrote my first song when I was only a child. We children in the Elementary/Junior High school in Yampa, CO., were given an assignment at the beginning of class one day, to write Lyrics for an original Christmas song to be performed at the schools annual Christmas Program. It must have been about 1966-67, and the tune the class selected was from the Ballad of the Green Beret, by SGT. Barry Sadler. At the end of the class time the teacher selected a few of the writings and the students then selected which one they desired to perform. Mine was selected, and we performed it at the High School in Oak Creek, CO. I am pretty sure I have written over 1000 songs in my lifetime. 9. I was once a member of the Wyoming Country Music Foundation. I’m pretty sure it is now defunct. I performed several of my Gospel/Christian inspirational songs at some of their festivals. For several years we would travel from Vernal, UT., to various locations in WY to attend and participate in song contests. It was a wonderful time to take a family vacation to the Black Hills region during the day, and be at the Country Music Festival in the evenings. I actually won several awards for Male Vocalist, most original Gospel, and The Festival Song. Three years running I won awards. I never received the Belt Buckle Award I won. I’m still kind of sad about that. They stuck my picture in the local paper along with 2 lady friends who won awards as well. Then I caught all kinds of flak from my buddies over being a Country Music Award winner. It was strictly a small potatoes type of thing, but I’m glad I participated just the same. 10. I am an Ordained and Licensed Southern Baptist Minister. I have served as Pastor, Associate Pastor, Youth Pastor, Music Minister, and various other positions in Southern Baptist churches over the years. I wouldn’t trade those years and times for any amount of wealth. Some of them I surely wouldn’t want to go back and experience again. I have preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ so many times I couldn’t begin to tell you. I have baptized people of all ages and sizes. I have performed weddings, dedications, funerals and even bedside death prayers while holding a patients hand as their final breath of life was breathed and the family members stood by with streams of tears running down their faces, as the Spirit of the deceased left the body and winged its way to GLORY! I have experienced God in so many wonderful ways, times, and places, I cannot even begin to tell. I love the Lord, and I know He loves me. That’s what keeps me going my friends. Knowing our God has a higher purpose for each of our lives, and for our nation is a calling greater than any other. Bro. Rick Terry. 11-16-2013
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:35:16 +0000
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