The Petra Zone

I am going to tell a little about myself. You can also if you want. I have redhair, blue eyes, 5,2 and not saying my weight...


Most know my name is Debra but most everybody calls me Deb.
I am 30 , well be 31 on March 6th, yeah next Monday. Been a christian since I was 15. Got married when I was 17 to my husband Charles. Had our first son a year later. We have been to Germany when he was stationed there.

I am normally a nice person. Sometimes it may not seem that way. I am soft hearted, a heart of gold. I was born in Clinton SC.

I have two older sisters: Chantelle and Pam. I am real close to my sister Chantelle cause I get to see her more. My sister Pam's husband keeps her isolated from us. I have 4 nieces and one nephew.


I love chatting online to my christian friends.

Bands i love... ummmm Petra , Petra , Petra, and more Petra lol.....


I like the Newsboys and more..

Big John Lawry fan but it equals out to john L and John Schlitt fan. But my favorite guitarist is definetly Bob Hartman.


I guess you are wondering why I created this topic aye? I just want to get to know people and let people know me.

I am Dan Reynolds, a student at University of Northern Iowa, which is in Cedar Falls. My main studies are Spanish and music (but not Spanish music necessarily )

I have two parents, four grandparents, two older brothers, two sisters-in-law, and two little nephews. One of them is Malachi and he is almost 1 year old. The other is Joshua and he is about 8 months.

I'm 100% white - my distant ancestors were Polish, German and English. I've lived in the United States all my life (besides a 2-week trip to Guatemala). But deep down inside my heart, I am North American, Latino, European, African, Asian, and whatever else.

I love the U.S. but I really want to get out sometime and explore other countries - obviously Japan but also maybe South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Brazil, and M�xico or any other Latin American country. I might not be able to visit all of those, but as long as I can at least go to two of them, including the J- one.

My native language is English, but I did not start studying a second language until I was 14 - which was Spanish. I also like to study Portuguese, Italian, Korean, and a language that is spoken in some island country in East Asia.

Grew up going to church but didn't become a born again christian until in 8th grade, when I was about 14. My faith in Christ is extremely important to me and always gave me hope during hard times.

I like to be funny and I get my sense of humor mainly from Homestar Runner, Weird Al, the Simpsons, and the other people I hang around. All that cereal I eat probably does it to me too.

I play trombone in band at college, including pep band and jazz band. I also play piano; I like to play classical music (like Mozart, Kuhlau, and Clementi) and rock music by ear, including Petra songs. Sometimes I write my own music, too, though I don't do that as often as I should. I am also a novice trumpet player.

Petra - favorite band. Also like Stryper, U2, Styx, Vicente Fern�ndez, and some guy named Al (who lived in a sewer with his hamster pal).

Maybe more stuffs later.

Glad to learn more about you. I am copying a post I made back in March last year. It is from a thread called Introduce Yourself, so you could go back and look it up to see a lot more folks.

Name: Bridget

Age: Older than Greg and Paul, but younger than John and Bob.

Occupation: Writer

Hair/Eye Color: Eyes - brown. Hair - dark brown, covering salt & pepper; born with dark brown hair.

Favorite Band: Petra of course. I also enjoy classic rock bands like REO, Styx, Survivor, The Who, Beatles, etc.

Favorite Petra Moment(s): Every concert is a favorite moment. Perhaps meeting Sue and Sam in Rushville in addition to a concert would rank as a favorite moment.

Brothers/Sisters: None, I am an only child.

Hobbies: Writing, reading, photography, travel

Favorite Author(s): Christian - Scotty Smith, Liz Curtis Higgs and Charles Stanley; Secular - Roseanne Bittner

Favorite T.V. show(s): Law & Order; sports, especially the Indianapolis Colts and University of Louisville (Go Cards!)

Best Quality: Loyalty

Animals: One kitty that is mine (Maddie), and I share custody of 2 others (Merlin & Molly) with my roommate.

Favorite Quote: "Preach always, if necessary, use words." Francis of Assisi

Favorite Bible Verse: That is really hard to say because it depends on what I am going through on a particular day. However, today I will go with PS 25:4 - "Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long."

Favorite Place: Mountains of Tennessee

Favorite City: I honestly can't pick a favorite, so I'll say my
Least Favorite City - Las Vegas.

Favorite Movie: "Gone With the Wind"

Favorite Movie Line: "I'll think about it tomorrow."

Dopiest Thing You've Ever Done: The possibilities are endless so I'll go with the most recent, which involved TP, a motel room door, a speeding ticket, and 3 accomplices.

I think this is a great topic. All people have good things about them, and those good things come from God. Praise God.

I'm Jimmie Sturdivant. I'm married to my wonderful wife Kimberly. We've been married for 7 1/2 years.

We live in Brownwood, Texas and both graduated from the Southern Baptist University here, Howard Payne University. Sting Em Jackets!

We have one son, adopted from Nigeria. We are still currently waiting for the US Embassy to issue his visa. He just turned 2 in December, and his name is Malachi.

I currently work as a Youth Prevention Educator. I teach a cirriculum in the schools helping children learn self-esteem, self-control and anger management. I love children so I love this job

I also have a heart for people groups and foreign missions. I have been a summer missionary in Estonia in 95 for 2 months, in Bangladesh in 96 for 2 months, and I spent a month in Nigeria in 94 ministering, and setting things in order for the adoption. I am going to return to Nigeria in a few months, and I'm praying about something God has laid on my heart about South and Central America.

The lady that has the orphanage is a registered nurse, and she comes to Houston, Texas 3 to 4 months out of the year and works as a nurse. She has no income in Nigeria. She takes all her money back and uses it for the orphans, a widows ministry, the church she pastors, and a medical clinic. She rescues abandoned babies, and aborted babies. She has brought several aborted babies back to life and has raised them. Our church is helping to support her ministry.

Interesting. I love to get to know people..

I forgot to say that I am a big CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fan. I love Grissom and Nick Stokes on the show. I don't like the other CSI's spin offs. I can't get interested in them. I love Star Trek. DS9 and Voyager.

i�m in a hurry now so i�ll post all about me later , please send me your address to [email protected] or put it here so i can add you to my birthday list!!!

It's fun to do this every once in awhile...

My real name is Michelle and I live in the L.A. area. I work at home doing medical transcription and I'm a student at Dominguez Hills. I'll graduate in May of 2007 if everything goes well. I've been posting here since summer of 2002.

I have three younger brothers, three sister-in-laws, three nephews and two nieces.

Some of my favorite bands are: Petra of course. I like classic bands like the Beatles, Styx, Journey, Foreigner, Beach Boys and so on, but I like musical theater a lot too and love Andrew Lloyd Webber's plays.

I love to read, and I love my family and friends.

Dopiest thing I've ever done: Well, a number of things come to mind, but some of the posts I've made here are at the top of the list.

Most overused phrase: "Aw, so-and-so is so CUTE!!!"

Favorite Petra moment: Every concert I've been to has been special, but some of my best memories are: The Pethead convention in 2003 and getting to see Paul and Greg play for the first time. The best thing is getting to make all the friends I've made through this message board though.

js3971 wrote:She has brought several aborted babies back to life and has raised them.

The ability to bring dead people back to life is pretty amazing.

Sometimes the babies aren't yet dead when the doctors bring the babies to her. Sometimes they are. Some don't make it.

There was one when I was there who was dead when the doctor brought it. We prayed over her, and she started breathing. She even starting crying. She lived about an hour, and then she stopped breathing and she was gone.

But they're have been many success stories.

In Nigeria, when they do abortions, they give the mother an injection to induce labor. Some of the doctors who do the abortions knows Mary does this, so they will bring the babies to her for money. She pays them usually anywhere between $50 to $200 US dollars for them, and then brings them back to life.

This is a good topic. Here is my bio in case you missed it on A & E!

Name....Chuck Hasty
Age... 40
Married...20 years this Sept. to my H.S. sweetheart
Children....16 yr old daughter; 12 year old son
Siblings....1 younger brother who also posts here
Education....BS in Education from Southeast Missouri; Masters in Ed. Administration for SEMO; Specialist in Ed. Admin. from UMSL
Occupation.....Assistant Superintendent, De Soto Public Schools, De Soto, Mo.
Favorite Current TV Show.....24
Favorite All-Time Movie(s).....tough one but enjoy The Godfather Trilogy, Star Wars X6, Lord of the Rings and Fletch
Favorite Hobby....Golf, watching my daughter play softball
Favorite music......Petra
Church......attend South County Christian Center, Pastor Shawn Craig of Phillips, Craig and Dean
Christian.....about 25 years
Most embarassing moment.....used the women's restroom at McDonald's. Didn't realize it until a woman came out of the stall next to me and made the statement that one of us was in the wrong location.....ME!

Most embarassing moment.....used the women's restroom at McDonald's. Didn't realize it until a woman came out of the stall next to me and made the statement that one of us was in the wrong location.....ME!

I did that last year. I was at a hotel for a big church meeting going on. I walked to what I thought was the men's restroom. I didn't see any urinals, it was all stalls. I thought it was wierd but it didn't hit me. I went intot a stall and did my thing. I heard people coming in and talking and then it hit me right between the eyes, cause all of the voices were WOMEN!

I humbly exited the stall and had about 7 ladies turn to see me. One was a large black woman. She just laughed, shook her head and said, "Don't say anything, just keep your head up and walk right out the door" So i Did. Very embarrassing.

awwwwwwwww enosh hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha sigh, i have been very close to go through that.

Once at work there was a graduation ceremony (i�m an english teacher), the ceremony was in a hotel and another teacher and I needed to practice quickly a coreography we made up for an sketch and we just didn�t know where to practice without the students would see us ya know so we went quickly to the men�s restrooms (he is a guy), he closed the door with lock and quickly practice ya know, like two times and then we came out quickly for the ceremony and when i came out there was this old man staring at me and i said, all embarrased: HEY, IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE THINKING OK????? and then I left quickly, it was very embarrasing.



well, now a little bit about me:

name: Eloisa Palacios (or Elo for my friends or epdc on da zone!)

age: just turned 22 (and single :p )

mmm what else, I�m from Hermosillo (city), Sonora (state), M�xico. if you check a map you�ll see that sonora is a border state with arizona, i live 5 hours from tucson, arizona.


i�m a university student, my degree is Hispanic Literature, I graduate in may (YEY!!!!) and once I do it i wanna start filling up papers for a master degree in milwaukee, the master would be in english literature (i have other options though this is my first one) so i could be over there next year.

i came here when i was 16 and went to my first john solo concert when i was 17in sheboygan wisconsin where i met tons of petheads , i stayed with sue dempster.


well, that�s all for now!

I am light brown-haired with green eyes, big lips, and light skin tone. I have grown out facial hair out many times in the past - moustaches, goatees, long sideburns. However, I have recently decided to stop growing out facial hair, because it makes my face itch.

I wore glasses from fourth to seventh grade. Then in 8th grade I began wearing contacts, which I have worn ever since then. (No, not the exact same pair.) My contacts have been irritating my eyes lately, though - I'm pondering the idea of wearing glasses again.

I am diagnosed with depression. Back in high school and my freshman year in college, I suffered from it really bad. But so far my sophomore year it's been less of a problem.

I love making friends and spending time with them. No, not just international friends - but American friends as well. I most enjoy the company of people who are super-friendly and compassionate, but I can hardly stand being around people who act crabby, arrogant, domineering, or unfriendly.

I'm not very shy but I'm not extremely talkative either. I am more of an introvert. I need plenty of time to myself, but if I spend too much solitary time I get lonely. I highly value friendship and spending time laughing with other people, getting to know others more, and sharing myself with others.

I don't think I've ever accidentally walked into a women's restroom before. But there have been a lot of disgraceful and embarrasing moments in my life that I prefer not to discuss nor think about.

My favorite movies are the old Star Wars trilogy (episodes 4 - 6). But I was never a Star Wars fan until last summer, when I saw Ep. 3 in the theater. I was impressed with, not all of, but the majority of, the movie - especially the emotional saberfight at the end. Since the movie ended with the rise of Darth Vader and the birth of Luke and Leia, I had a hunger to finish off the saga by watching good ol' episodes 4-6. I was totally amazed by the late 70's / early 80's historical value of those movies, as well as the drama and the thrilling special effects. My most favorite of the three is probably The Empire Strikes Back, though Return of the Jedi comes in a very close second. My favorite character is R2-D2 because he's cool and he always talks with those crazy bleeping noises.

Maybe even more stuffs later.

My name is Greenchili and I like green eggs and ham.

I feel for ya there yamasaaaki har har I've been down that path before (depression that is). It ain't easy.

Hello all.
My name is Jim. I'm 43(or will be on April 5). I'm married-will be 3 years on July 26. My wife'same is Dawn. I'm not telling her age. She's younger than I am-that's all I'll say. Her birthday is June 19. I'm a first time husband and dad. I "inherited" two teenage daughters-very strong-willed teenage daughters!
We live in Mishawaka, IN which is a "twin" city to South Bend, IN. The University of Notre Dame(and YES I am a BIG fan) is @ a 10 minute drive from our house and I pass by it every night going to work, as well on the way home in the morning. I'm a Night Auditor at the Residence Inn by Marriott in South Bend. My wife is a colege student studying Computer Networking.
I grew up here in this area. Dawn, my wife grew up in Chandler, AZ a suburb of Phoenix.
Our girls go to the same high school I graduated from- Penn(no it's not short for Pennsylvania) High. Penn is the Township the school is in.
The More Power To Ya tour was my first time seeing Petra in concert.
We attend Northway Church of Christ in South Bend-my dad is the minister there. My dad has been a preacher for close to 50 years now.
I'll post more later, I've got to go for now.