For those who may be interested, my name is Charles, and I was born in Harlingen, Texas in 1941. I’m married and have two stepchildren and eight step-grandchildren. I’ve worked all my life in a variety of fields and have recently retired from the U.S. Customs Service.

The greatest event of my life was when I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior during my senior year in high school. I felt called to the ministry soon after that and my life took a drastic about face. My schooling, up through seminary, was designed all to that end. I was even the pastor of a church in Pirmasens, Germany between my junior and senior years of college.

Unfortunately due to weakness of character, a large amount of sickening pride and my inability to live properly by faith, in the same manner that I had received our Lord Jesus, I drifted away from a close relationship with God. Realizing this and having promised God from the very beginning that I would never be a hypocrite in my service to Him, I left the ministry. This was the gravest error of my life.

Since then I served for over 12 years as a commissioned officer in the United States Army, where I was fortunate to have been assigned four separate commands (Adjutant General Corp and Field Artillery Corp). After this and a short stint in sales, I became the Diving Director (Dive Master in some circles) for over three years at Chub Cay in the Berry Islands in the Bahamas. Then I returned to Texas and spent a few years as a realtor. While in that occupation I also became a reserve deputy sheriff, and I soon realized that the field of law enforcement was more to my liking.

I entered the U.S. Customs Service some 16 years ago. I rose from my entry position of GS-5 Inspector to GS-7, to GS-11, to Supervisory Customs Inspector (SCI) GS-12, to the Port Director position at Presidio, Texas. After a few years there I took another promotion to GS-13 at the Customs Management Center in Laredo, Texas.

From there I took a downgrade back to GS-12 SCI in order to relocate back to my home area and take care of ill family members. I retired from the U.S. Customs Service on December 30, 2001.

The important thing is that God has been working on me now for several years to bring me back into a close relationship with Him. I have a long ways to go, and I certainly would appreciate any prayers any viewers to this site would care to share on my behalf with our Father.

I pray daily for God to have mercy on me, such a terrible sinner. I pray that He will protect me from myself. My greatest fear is that once again I’ll give vent to the sin of pride in my life. Oh, I know I won’t lose my salvation. But I’ve wasted so much of my life by being apart from service to Jesus Christ. My other prayer is that for however long our God will permit me to take breath on the face of His dear earth, He will somehow use me to point others to His Son, Jesus Christ, and His sacrifice in behalf of all of us.

May God bless you.

Charles

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