"The best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." Simply said, by Theodore Roosevelt, it is one of my favorite quotes. Young or old, fulfillment comes when you know you are giving your best to something you know you were born to do.

This talented and well spoken young lady has experienced a variety of life over the last few years. As a gospel singer and recording artist she toured the country and thrilled audiences from country and church venues alike. In recent days she has become a politician and that has given her a voice that she had not seen before. Her background makes her a sought after speaker and entertainer for churches and businesses alike. Her ability to help people understand the political system and then turn around and mesmerize them with her talent and skill as a musician and singer makes her the complete package.

Her first audience was in an old school auditorium in Mansfield Ohio. Just in kindergarten, she entered the talent show to sing, "You Are My Sunshine." She does not remember what she sang after the first verse, but she does remember the look on her mother's face as she composed her own version, on the spot! It must have been good though because that night she took home first place. Still singing and composing, her musical career, like her life, would evolve over time.

Though many are blessed with various gifts and talents, it is an added blessing to be able to make a living doing what you love to do. After graduating high school, the adventurous spirit in Terri Lynn her moved south, to the big state of Texas. There she would have many versions of musical ensembles. Starting as a solo act with just her guitar, then a duo, a trio, to eventually forming a country dance band called "Terri Lynn and Texas Tea." Local clubs and dance halls kept her booked. It was a season that would not last long as destiny was preparing her for another adventurous journey. Somewhere in this chain of events, she met her husband, they married in 1979 and their son Justin was born in 1980. Texas would also bring her to a major crossroad in her life when the message of her song would change and point the listener to Jesus Christ. Somehow this career became a full time ministry, a call, that would take their young family all over America.

Twenty-three years later, nine CD's of numerous number one songs like "Old Gideon Bible," "Mama Prays," "He's the One on the White Horse," "Fearless," "No Stranger to Treason,"
"Alone With Jesus" and at present, working on an all acoustic worship project of songs written in this chapter of her life.

Leaving a music career years ago, to embrace a ministry call, enables her life to be that song that sings to expand the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. What she does is a ministry. It is who she is, a gospel singer, still pointing her listeners to her Savior and her Friend. He is the only reason she still has a song to sing. Jesus is the best prize that life has to offer and singing for Him is a work worth doing!