My name is Troy. I was born in the Bahamas and grew up between the islands of Eleuthera and New Providence. The time between the islands was split because when I was about 6 years old my parents split and ultimately divorced.

My parents divorce made me a bit of a bitter kid and also gave me excuses to do things that I should not have. I found that it was easy to manipulate people, no matter who they were by using this tragic event in my life.

After I graduating high school I went off to a tech school in FL to study electronics with the thought of coming back to Nassau to work in that field and eventually start my own business to become rich. This is where things began to change in my life in dramatic ways.

I met a family through a friend who would impact my life, forever changing it’s direction. They were christians. I had been around “christians” my whole life and I didn’t think much of them, but this family was different, they lived their everyday lives in accordance with their faith. They took me into their family and eventually I came to believe on Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

God began His work in my life and still now He is working in me to make me the Troy He’d like me to be. He has a challenge, but He knows that already. My Christian family got the idea that I needed to go to Bible School and within 6 months of becoming a believer I found myself in Word Of Life Bible Institute in Pottersville, NY. That was probably the greatest two years of my life. Those studies also set In motion conflicts within my life that I still battle with today and I suppose will be a constant conflict until the day I die. The greatest lesson learned at WOLBI is that God’s word, the Bible, stands as the ultimate authority for our lives. It alone holds the answers to life’s challenges and pleasures.

While at WOLBI we were introduced to many missions organizations, one of them being New Tribes Mission, now Ethos 360. I ended up going on to serve with New Tribes in Venezuela for a few years. In Venezuela I met my lovely bride. After being married and completing basic Spanish study we moved to the Jungle to work with an indigenous group called the Yanomamo. It is this time period that has most impacted my life as a believer. It has also impacted my cultural point of view of the bible, allowing me to realize that certain ideas I have are formed from cultural bias, and not necessarily true to God’s Word.

We left the New Tribes Mission in 2002 and moved back to the Bahamas. That has pretty much led us to this point.

My challenge to you is to always ask yourself, what does God’s word say? What does God expect of you as a follower/believer in Him? Search the Word of God to find His will for your lives, trying to lay aside those things that are not prescribed by God, and walking with Him in truth and simplicity.