My family moved to Gardner, Kansas when Larry and I were in the third grade. The town and the people in it have certainly been a huge part of my life. I always loved going to school and seeing everybody there and have always had the greatest appreciation and love for the students I was around.  They were great then, through graduation in '72, and they are still very precious people 32 years later.  It amazes me how much they still care.

Four years after graduation I went to Southwestern A/G College in Waxahachie, TX.  The Lord told me that He wanted me to help mold young people's lives.  God has done some huge things in my life, and getting saved was the greatest thing that happened to me.  I didn't realize it then, but he gave me character, purpose, and later on a calling.  During the three years I was there, I met some wonderful people who touched my life in numerous ways.

The second greatest thing that God gave me was the wife I met there, Olivia. She is one of a kind and still loves me after 25 years.

We were in youth ministry 5 years in churches in Kansas and Texas. Then, since 1984 I have been a basketball coach (another love of my life) at Southwestern College 6 years, a high school in Independence, MO 4 years, Shreveport, LA 2 years, Beaumont, TX 2 years and back in Waxahachie for 1 year.

During my last coaching position, my employer kept insisting that something was wrong with me and I should have a check up.  When I finally revealed that I was at risk for HD, he immediately took that as the answer. So, in April, 1999 I visited the Hereditary Neurological Disease Centre in Wichita, KS to be evaluated, since my sister had learned of her diagnosis two years earlier from the same neurologist.  It was confirmed.

I had difficulty finding employment after that except for working part-time at the college as an assistant coach and statistician for the men and women's athletic programs.  After a year without anything I finally got a job as a part-time custodian at my church.  I lost that position in July 2003, and have not been employed since.  In November I was finally able to get on disability. 

Huntington's has been a very difficult thing to face and accept but GOD has continually provided and been faithful.  My life has been one that proves GOD is still in the miracle working business!  His salvation is a miracle, His allowing me to coach is a miracle, giving me my wife and three wonderful kids is a miracle, and all of the friends He has graced my life with.  If it were not for Him and friends, I could not go on.  Thank you for your prayers and support.

--Terry Bryan 

I got saved during the 2nd semester of my senior year in high school.  As a result of God's blessing on my life, I still have the vast majority of my friends I made in four years of high school at Gardner, Kansas, as well as our years at a Christian college in Waxahachie, Texas.  I have never been the type of person who has a great deal of personal ambition when it comes to success from a secular point of view.  My motivation has always been to complete the work or finish the project.  I know when we get to heaven, obedience and faithfulness will be all that counts, rather than titles and awards.

After 20 years as an ordained minister, you develop your perception of service to Him and to His children.  God's children are not just those who know Him, His children include every classmate of mine in high school.  I can remember people from high school that said my Christianity would never last.  I'm grateful because it is God's grace that has made this possible.

None of this would have been possible without my friends.  Friends are worried when you're depressed.  They will not stop speaking to you until they can sense your relief.  Friends are there to help you make hard decisions.  Friends are there to rejoice with you during the good times and times of great plenty.  Sometimes friends treat you better than your own family members.  Friends sacrifice their time, their money, and themselves for you.  Friends pray for you when you don't know how.  Friends are always concerned for you.  When I see my friends, I feel like the character on "It's a Wonderful Life."  My friends make me the richest man in town.  There is no higher will of God than to be a friend.

I have just recently come to accept the fact that I have HD.  It was not until I lost my last job in April, 2004, that I gave in to going to the neurologist and having the blood work done.  It was confirmed, and I have since applied for disability.  This is not an easy thing to admit nor come to grips with, but with God's help we will make it.

---Larry Bryan

Lenexa Assembly of God - Lenexa, KS                      June 1977 to June 1980 

Real Life Assembly of God - North Platte, NE        July 1980 to November 1980

First Assembly of God - Claremore, OK                     March 1981 to July 1983

First Assembly of God - Mesquite, TX                         July 1983 to May 1984

First Assembly of God - Paola, KS                    June 1984 to September 1984

Carbondale Assembly of God - Tulsa, OK            September 1984 to July 1987

New Life Christian Center - Beloit, KS                     August 1987 to July 1991

First Assembly of God - Grand Junction, CO              March 1996 to May 1998

First Assembly of God - Denver, CO                      August 1998 to June 1999

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