Richard Stevenson:  

After high school, I went to OBU where I received a Bachelors in Music Ed. and a wife, Pam. After student teaching in my senior year, I discovered that I wasn't a good classroom teacher so I went to graduate school at OCU where I got a Masters in Vocal Performance. Meanwhile, my wife is supporting me as a elementary music teacher in Edmond. After graduating from OCU, I opened a voice studio and did some performing on the side. I spent 3 summers in Ohio perfoming with the Ohio Light Opera Company. Where we met some great friends who were attending LSU. I wasn't satisfied with where my career was going so I looked into the doctoral program at LSU and ended up going. Just before leaving to go to LSU, my first son was born, Robert Luke in '99. We spent three great years in Baton Rouge meeting good friends and learning a lot about ourselves. I was leading worship at a small church that was having lots of problems. It was then that I started feeling God's call into music ministry because I was enjoying working in that church more than going to school. I finished my course work at LSU and got a job teaching voice at the University of South Alabama in Mobile AL. I was also leading worship at First Baptist Church in Vancleave MS, just across the border from Mobile. It was there that my call to worship ministry was solidified and I started applying for church jobs in OK. In May of 2003 I got a job at Immanuel Baptist Church in Norman, OK and in July my daughter was born, Molly Catherine. 2 1/2 years later, W...Expand for more