My name is Gary Wales; my wife is Cynthia.  More than forty years ago, one year into our marriage, Cynthia and I sensed that God was calling us to become full-time workers in ministry.  We had both taught Bible classes, done evangelism, and served in a variety of ways in the local church.  But suddenly it seemed that God was directing me to leave my career at General Motors, and Cynthia to leave her career as a medical technologist.  We both became convinced that God was calling me to go to seminary, and together we would serve God on a foreign mission field.

While we were at seminary, we received more clarity concerning God's will for our lives.  We sensed in a new way that God was directing us away from serving as foreign missionaries and toward pastoral ministry in a mainline denomination.  I served as a pastor for thirty-three years.  There were various trials and frustrations along the way.  However, the greatest, and also the most humbling experience of my life, was that God called me to declare His overwhelming glory and the complete truthfulness of His Word.

As the angels declared in Isaiah's vision of God on His throne:  "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory!" (Isaiah 6:3).