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Glen Clark & The Family
Called to the ministry but rejected by the church, this left me on a journey as a singer/songwriter starting a club scene known for it’s spawning of many death metal bands that is now 150,000 to 200,000 people partying on weekends in Ybor City, Florida. A drastic conversion experience would bring me from Satan worship music back toJesus. Then I was told I would have to decide whether my new born son would live or die. I cried to God asking him to keep my son alive and I would do whatever He said the rest of my life. This began a walk of obedience. My son had Crouzons Syndrome. This is where soft spots in the head grow together before the child is born. A series of surgeries would open up the skull to make room for the brain to grow. They built new eye orbits and would use rib bones for cheek bone and drill holes where his ear canals were supposed to be, Then take skin graphs from legs and build new ear canals and bone and muscle from inside head to build new ear drums. Through all these surgeries and 5 years of therapy, 5 days a week teaching Beau to interpret vibrations from a bone oscillator so that when he got his new ears ( man made), he would be able to talk.
Through this, God made radical changes in my life. I began to play music for the handicapped, wrote a song that would become a video that would become a video album, then nominated for a Dove Award. But feeling a call to the handicapped, broken, drug addicts, homeless and poor, I chose to leave CCM for richer pastures in the streets.
Then for 17 years traveling U.S. to the darkest and dirtiest places to bring a message of Hope, God created a ministry. Five years ago, Beau had to have a major surgery. This would require 3 months recovery as they would break his face and mount a “halo” to his head and then we would screw his face forward til it got in the right position. God said to get him a keyboard to give him something to look forward to and to help him through surgery. He taught himself to play, then he taught himself my songs. And to make a long story short, this tremendously handicapped child that doctors said to let die for he would only live to a year old and then only to be a vegetable. At 13 years old, Beau built the band you are about to listen to. He wanted to play music with his Daddy, so he taught his brothers and sisters to play and sing. A true miracle. So, I did not argue with God and here they are 8 years later. I pray you enjoy this true miracle of God. I am so blessed to have been a part of it.
Thank You, Jesus. Thank you, Beau
Glen
A new part of our ministry that is there to be a covering and resource for many front line ministries that are out there without much support. After fifteen years on the front lines as missionaries to America, we feel there is much we can offer these new ministries coming up. We give them not only experience, but a 501c3 covering as well. We are also a resource for them through our network of ministries, getting food, blankets, transportation and/or places to send new converts fro discipleship training, residential rehab, womenís crisis center help or however we can best facilitate their ministry needs. We pray this organization will also help set the standard for accountability and such in all areas of ministry to the frontlines.
This is the new home for the part of our ministry to the church that we have been doing for years. We teach them how to start coffee houses, recovery programs, feeding ministries, residential programs for the homeless, clothing ministry , outreach and street evangelism.
Homeless Ministry
We work with many rescue missions around the country ministering where we can: feeding people or doing concerts for the people, or ministering to the staff who always need encouragement since this is a difficult ministry. We have found this to be where we can most affect change with the growing epidemic of millions of homeless in America. We encourage the staff with a concert and sharing testimonies and the Word. We try to make the churches aware of the plight of the homeless in America, encouraging them that it is the churches' responsibility to do something about this problem, not the welfare system or the government.
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