Jul 08 2008
About
Charles H. Sporleder
Midland Michigan, 1955
My early childhood was spent in Michigan, until I was 4 years old when my father received a job offer that resulted in our moving to St. Louis, Mo. There, I attended school, graduating from Affton Sr. High in 1973 and I began a career in printing, moving to south Texas about a year and a half later. I worked in my chosen profession for another year and a half before I enlisted in the U.S. Navy where I spent 6 years on active duty as a radar technician. While I enjoyed this technical trade, after my discharge in 1982, I returned to my former occupation as a printer. I was married in 1981, while still enlisted, and after I got out of the military, my wife and I settled down in Boise, Idaho for the next 15 years.
We began to feel the call to leave the Pacific Northwest and head east. Without a set destination, we traveled around and ended up eventually buying a small farm in the hill country of northern Missouri. For 4 years, I was the working plant manager of a small newspaper production facility where several local area newspapers were printed. Now, I am beginning a new career in the transportation industry, driving a truck.
I have no formal training in theology or seminary studies but I have found the Holy Spirit to be extremely faithful in bringing the understanding of God’s Word into my life. I am merely a disciple in training as are we all. I have no special revelation or direct message from God to share, other that that which is presented for us in the Bible