Clark Blakeman is a friend who will always be very important to me.  I haven’t seen in a couple of years, but I will always remember the friendship that we had while he was the youth pastor at CBF and I was on volunteer staff.  Clark and I met weekly for almost 10 years to [...]

So on Wednesday I told you about my friend Kelly Lowe, today I want to tell you about Scott Lowe.  I forget how exactly how Scott and I met  but we were in the same college group together and we were room mates for awhile, as was the kid on the right.  I remember the [...]

This is one young man who constantly amazes me.  This is my oldest son Daniel “Dukkie” Richards. It is hard to imagine that he is 23 years old.  He is currently working to start a non-profit organization.  He is in tight with a band called NIAYH.  He is not where I thought he would be, [...]

This is the person who makes me laugh the most.  David is one of the funniest people I have ever known, he has even caused milk to squirt out my nose.  If that’s not funny I don’t know what is.  David is also one of the most caring people as he cares deeply about his [...]

I first met my best friend in July of 1972.  My Dad had just retired from the US Navy and we moved from Big Sur, CA to Eugene, OR so that he could get his degree in Library Sciences.  We searched for a church to attend and finally they decided on Berean Baptist. There a [...]