Sowing Seeds Radio Ministry
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SOWING SEEDS RADIO MINISTRY
Sowing Seeds Radio Ministry was started by listening to my spirit crying out to become more in touch with the WORD of GOD and spreading the LIGHT of JESUS in the world. After running from GOD for over 30 years, GOD's grace had never left me but I was denying what I was called to do. I heard the "KNOCK ON THE DOOR" in June of 1985 at a Youth For Christ summer camp. The Circle C Ranch. I had have a life that wasn't the greatest but by far not the worst. My family didnt have money or high end things and I was very envious of my friends and what they had. My mother was a true WOMAN of GOD! I know that she had myself and our family in her prayers for many many years and she being the SPIRITUAL LEADER of our house never gave up on any of us. She made sure we had JESUS in our lives from a very early age. I am the youngest of 3, my sister is 9 years older than me and my brother 8 years older. We all was raised in the church and heard GOD's word from a very early age. Which was such a blessing to look back on now but at the time it was not what we thought we wanted. Living in a very small town in Kansas if we wanted to go to a big box store, shopping of any kind or to a movie we had to drive 30minutes to do that. But this town was where my father grew up and in a way had roots established there for the good and bad, but there we where. In June of 1985 my life had become out of control and I was on a fast track to Hell being a problem for everyone I came into contact with. Then my mother heard of this Christian summer camp ran by Youth For Christ. I believe it was through my uncle and aunt that mom had the insight to send me and my cousin to Circle C Ranch. The first couple of days was such a nightmare for me (the angry rebellious spirit inside me) but then came the night that would change me FOREVER! The speaker was hitting on all the points that my spirit needed to hear and when the ALTER CALL was given I went down to the front of the hall and received the eternal gift of salvation through the BLOOD OF JESUS! My life changed instantly I was truly a new creator and GOD had not only saved me from Hell but from myself. I had heard my whole life that "IN GODS TIME" well it was GODS time and time for HIS light to shine through me. I was basically asked not to return to the school I was in because I was such a mess, I get that, but i knew there was so much more now. That summer when I would see my friends I would share what JESUS had done for me and delivered me from and how incredible life was now that I was "SAVED" , I was pushed away from so many people I thought was my friends but that was OK with me because " WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS!" My parents was able to get me into a CHRISTIAN school and the first year was INCREDIBLE! I was making new friends and learning more and more about THE WORD OF GOD! What a great year! The next year, well have you heard of that kid that your parents warned you about? That was me except I wasn't doing anything besides being in the same zip code and I was catching all the blame so I figured well if I am going to get blamed for something I am going to do it because these other parents and teachers would not believe that "their sweet innocent baby would act like that" I actually heard that! And that was when I started to slip away from my faith. GOD NEVER LEFT ME! I walked away. After that I was doing everything I could to become a guitarist that I wanted to be. I was a "ROCKER" in all reality I was a legend in my own mind. And wanted nothing to do with CHRISTIANITY which was MY CHOICE no one ever made me walk away. Just wanted to make that clear, even though I was treated like a total piece of crap because of lies. I am just glad GOD's grace is still with me! I remember telling family I wanted to be a preacher I wanted to teach the WORD OF GOD to the world. I was falling fast and deep into a pit I didn't know I was even in because I was blinded by the truth. I was married at 21 and had my son. He was at the wedding. Life was crazy. I was working 3 jobs to support my wife and child to come home to a dirty complete wreck of a house and found out my wife was cheating on me with a "friend", then came the Child Protective Services and 2 police officers. they took my son away to be fostered because our living conditions, which I understand. When my son was in CPS custody we bounced from living situation from bad to worse never knowing what curve was next ion life. Then while living with friends we got pregnant with my oldest daughter. During this time I was working a good job we had a place of our own and life was looking good ,except, what I was trying to make my wife happy and would do anything to do that I began writing hot checks to supply her with "things" so she would be happy. All that did was put my life in a whole new despair. In all honesty I was arrested for writing bad checks and did a little jail time, paid off what i owed to everyone and was on probation. I did what the state demand of me and that was that or so I thought. My daughter was put into foster care as well because of our living conditions and it being a total mess that even roaches was ashamed to be around. We will get into more of all that at a later time. After I was divorced from my first wife I met my second wife. Life was taking a turn or so I thought. We didn't work out after being together for 8 years and we divorced, same with my 3rd and 4th wife. Life was so difficult for me. During time with my 4th wife I was hired by a radio station in Central Kansas to do sales ( one thing I inherited from my dad was how to sell anything), it was going well then through a little round of what if's my first radio show was born, BIG HAIR-OCOLYPS yeah it was cheesy but it was the music I really enjoyed so I went with it. Then a one hour show on Friday nights turned into a mid day show of 60's,70's, and 80's music for a couple of hours Monday through Friday to doing a morning "drive time" show Monday through Friday along with the Friday night show. I reconnected with my now wife during while going through my 4th divorce. I went to school with her from Elementary to Junior High. I heard through the grape vine that our radio station was going to flip to TALK RADIO. I didn't want anything to do with that so through talking with Amy we thought it be best if I moved down with her in the Dallas area and syndicate my show to the station and work on picking up other stations as well. So moving here I was able to network in a much larger area and connect with some amazing people who wanted my show. We went from maybe 300 to 500 people listening to my show to over 300,000 listeners per show. I thought I found a place in this world. We changed the name of the show to The All Things Metal Show and it was off and running. after doing that show for 3 years I was feeling so empty inside, what once brought me great joy was now just mehh. And I had this little voice inside me saying you need to do a CHRISTIAN show. I did not want to hear that at all! I was on top I was doing what I thought I loved. When it started falling apart for me I sold the show to a very good friend of mine and I got out of the radio game or so I thought. I tried another show and it was BOMBING big time so I dropped it and there was still that little voice saying, " You need to do a CHRISTIAN SHOW!" I left radio all together because I was feeling so low and empty I didn't want to do anymore. My wife who has always been such a HUGE support in this craziness, understood and said do what I need to do. Months went by and one day I was working in my garage and was listening to Stryper (I have always loved STRYPER) and a song came on by PETRA called "JUST REACH OUT" and a line in that song hit me like a ton of bricks! It says to the effect, you can take a thousand steps away from GOD but its only one step back! Man that hit me. Then the song "More Than A Thousand Words" came on. let me tell you all something, GOD WAS REACHING OUT TO ME!! I started listening to more and more Christian rock and my spirit began to grow and then that little voice hit me again. YOU NEED TO DO A CHRISTIAN RADIO SHOW. Now I don't know a lot about computers because well these things are too new fangled tech for me. HAHA! But one of my boards fried out and I couldn't get my recording devises to work because well it has to have it to work. I was getting upset a little and said, "God if you want this to be a thing make a way and get this computer to work with the system I have" , well guess what PRAISE JESUS!! I listened to the voice of GOD and it said to me to change a cable to this different one and BOOM! it was all working! Before I recorded my first show I contacted some stations I was on before and VooDoo Radio was the one that called out to me the most. I contacted the owner and said I was doing a new show and asked if he was interested. He said He really was and used some colorful language and then I said well just so you know it is a Christian rock show, he said well I am a pagan and my answer was well Jesus still loves you. How incredible is it to see the hand of GOD move. SO many people need to hear the WORD of GOD and lets be honest on a "Christian" station people know what to expect but on a station that has NO Christian programming that's where I want to be! And GOD made a way! Man this is a long story but I wanted you all to know where I am coming from. There is so much more to my testimony that we didn't cover but one day we will. GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!!!
Chris Price
Host of Sowing Seeds Radio Ministry