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Growing up in an Iowa gas station (image below right) placed E.F. Cater in the center of customer service and auto mechanics.

From age five, this immersive experience of watching gas pumps and servicing cars taught him the windbag storytelling style of old men.

Those fellows came rich in life experiences to hang out in the old, earthy service stations in the classic car era. Yeah, they offered uncensored lessons in dirt-and-grime humor.

 

Somewhere around fifth grade, the goddess of art at his elementary school decided he might have some talent.

With a scholarship to study at the Art Center with the college students, he went from getting down and dirty with grease and oil to coloring his hands with chalk, clay, and paint.

This became a real thing, and he went on to earn a commercial art and photography degree. For seven years, he used his technical degree in commercial art to work as a graphic artist in the textile and vending machine industries.

At the ripe age of 22, he met up with some Christians who talked about Jesus like he sat in the armchair beside them.

Instead of a warm loving creator, his church background left Jesus out in the cold as someone in the Word we approach with obedient fear and trembling.

So, on April 17th of 1973, Jesus became his living vinedresser with a sharp snipper ready and willing to prune up his bushy life so he could walk on the straight and narrow way. Beginning pastoral ministry in March of 1975 and continuing today, he completed a degree in Bible and attended seminary.

Working as a change-management pastor, he helped several congregations turn a corner and take a new direction.

Along the way, he has worked in a factory spray-painting booth, a cafe kitchen flipping burgers, a silk-screen shop, a plumbing business, and as a janitor at Costco.

Working with University Students, he earned an MAEd., and Ed.D. degree, and taught College English and Rhetoric. 

 

At present, he works as a freelance writer and oral storyteller while serving as the teaching pastor for an online church.

Dr. Cater writes romance novels because he is intent on helping you begin a quiet revival.

God-honoring discipleship follows when you choose to delight in the one person with whom you share your life. With this alone, you light a fire in your home which can change the world!