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Welcome to the famous Amos page! Click here for Beacon Rescue Mission homepage Click here for Famous Amos Signs .com
I have so much to say and so much to show you that there will be links to pictures and other stuff from this page. I am writing this page so I will refer to myself in first person. I am the director of the Men's division at the mission. Part of my duties include counseling clients, maintaining paperwork (admission forms, thrift store signs, client statistics and weekly shelter expenses), general maintenance and repair of Shelter and Thrift Stores, office manager and grounds keeper. (whatever needs to be done at the moment) Here are a few of my favorite pictures (updated 4/15/04)
It's hard to write my "Favorite thoughts" about the Mission because there are so many. I would have to say that my very most favorite thoughts are of the lives that I have seen changed by the grace and love of God Almighty. The name, God Almighty, hardly begins to describe the way that I view Christ in my heart. To see first hand over and over the lives changed and brought back from a point of no return. I have to admit that at times I have smiled and encouraged some all the while I was thinking "there's no hope for this poor guy", and then to see God Almighty begin to move to change someone's heart, mind and life. Now when people tell me that they don't see how there is any hope for a situation, I look at them and grin. I know my God is bigger than any problem I have encountered. To sum up my job in a statement: "I tell people about the power of God and his indescribable love for us and how he can change lives through the gift of his Son Jesus Christ." Then I sit back and watch God change and salvage lives.
I attend Central Baptist Church and have been since I was about 11 years old. Currently, Jenny and I are teaching a couples class dealing with marriage issues. We also help in the nursery. I have been involved with the Mission most of my life. My parents (Gene and Betty Love) started the Mission in our home in Johnston county when I was very young. I feel privileged to be able to work closely with my family on a daily basis. My Testimony
I prayed and asked Jesus to save me at the age of four. Over the nest two years I battled with doubt and fear of being lost. So at the age of six, at home one night after church I prayed with mom to gain the assurance of my salvation. I always say that whether I got saved at the age of four or the age six makes absolutely no difference to me. What I do know is that I am saved and on my way to heaven! As I grow in the Lord I realize more and more, it's not how I feel at the moment or what I do at the time, it's what Jesus did for me when he died on the cross to pay for my sins. The bible says that we are all sinners (I know I sure am) and that God Almighty requires payment for every sin that is committed. The fact is that if I had to pay for all the stupid stuff I have ever done, truth be known, I would have hell to pay. God is the one who requires perfection and He knew that know one would ever be able to live up to those standards. That's why He sent His only son to come to earth, live a sinless life and die a cruel death. Jesus paid for my sins when He died that day, that was God's gift to me! Now, when God looks at my life, all He sees is a note that says "paid in full" One thing that I have realized is that God is perfect and heaven is perfect. Not only could God not let my sins into a perfect heaven, but he couldn't let my mistakes, failures and blunders into His perfect heaven either. When Jesus died on the cross for me, He left nothing undone. Remember His last words on the cross before He died? "It is finished".
~ Personal information about myself ~
As a young teenager I began doing lawn maintenance very successfully during the summer months but school put the brakes on that. My first official job was at Avente Advertising painting and hanging bill boards. This helped pay for my first car (a green 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme) I began working on the Beacon truck route as soon as I turned sixteen and got my drivers license. I graduated Triton High School in 1994. I married the love of my life in 1995. I began a sign business in 1999 (Famous Amos' Vinyl Signs). In 2001 Jenny and I started a salon and day spa (The Hair Republic) We also had our first child in 2001. (busy year) In 2003 I dropped the word "vinyl" and now the sign business is Famous Amos Signs. I have begun to expand the type of signs that I offer to wood grain signs, etched glass, business card layout and printing, engraved markers and brick and much more. Click here for Famous Amos Signs .com
One line to fill out on the questionnaire was favorite family memories. Every day it seems that I am creating new favorite family memories with a baby in the house. But in growing up I would have to say my favorite memories were of spending Christmas in New Jersey with my grandparents, aunts and uncles.
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