Lance Patterson
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Missionary |
| Location | Springfield, MO, United States |
| Introduction | In high school I built a dune buggy, played baseball and goofed off. In college I studied music, played baseball, got serious and graduated with a BA in history. Then I became a Marine aviator flying A-4's, transferred to the Navy and spent five of my eleven years of service in the Philippines in VC-5 at Subic Bay. I was selected for adversary training at TOPGUN, and survived the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. After the military I taught Bible and history at Silver State Christian School in Denver, Colorado, then flew as a co-pilot on a Westwind I for John Elway. In 1997 my family and I became Baptist missionaries to Kenya. I have been the administrator of Nairobi Baptist Bible College since 2000, and we've started three churches. In 1991 I married the love of my life, Leah Dequina, and we have three children, Jonathan, Ethan and Hannah. Due to health problems Leah was having in 2011-2012, we changed fields to the Philippines, and arrived here in 2013. |
| Interests | Baseball, Nascar, reading, writing, travel, and hanging out with my family. |
| Favorite movies | The Searchers, Hatari, Donovan's Reef, The Quiet Man, Angel and the Bad Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How the West was Won, Night of the Grizzly, Yellowstone Kelly, Charade, Roman Holiday, Singing in the Rain, North by Northwest, The Philadelphia Story. |
| Favorite music | Classical: Mendelsson 4th and 5th symphonies, violin concerto; Incidental Music to a Midsummer Night's Dream, Grieg A-minor piano concerto, Pier Gynt Suite, Holberg Suite, Grofe Grand Canyon Suite, Saint Saens 3rd symphony, Samson and Delilah, Robert Shaw Chorale, Messiah, Deep River. Popular: Ed Ames, My Cup Runneth Over, ABBA, Manheim Steamroller Christmas albums, Il Divo, Amazing Grace, Religious: George Beverly Shea, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Hymns Triumphant. |
| Favorite books | The Bible, The Bobby Richardson Story, In the Shadow of the Moon, John Wayne My Father by Aissa Wayne, An American Life by Ronald Reagan, Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley, Lee and Grant by Gene Smith, Death in the Long Grass by Peter Capstick, John Wayne the Man behind the Myth by Michael Munn, anything by Bruce Catton (history), Alistair Maclean (mystery), or Luke Short (western). |