Bob was born in York, PA and raised in the small town of Pylesville, MD. His mom and dad were saved just three months after he was born, so he grew up in church and even went to a Christian school for all 12 grades.

“I remember when I was 5, I walked the aisle, but I really didn’t understand what I was doing. Unfortunately, I hung my eternal destiny on that experience for the next 11 years. When I was 16, I remember lying in bed one night after I had returned from a youth retreat and the Holy Spirit began speaking to my heart. In the quietness of that moment I realized that all I had was an experience, but there was no relationship. I bowed right there at my bedside and asked God to forgive me of my sins and invited Jesus into my life.”

Although he attended church all of his life, he was never exposed to southern gospel music until he was 13 years old. “I went to an outdoor singing with several regional groups who were all good”, says Bob “but then the Blue Ridge Quartet took the stage and just blew me away; I was hooked!”

Bob joined his first quartet, the Saved by Grace, at the early age of 16 as a steel guitar player and remained with them through high school. Then after college he joined another regional group, The Nottingham Four, as a steel player, but quickly moved to the front line when the baritone position came open.

After 10 years of the quartet life, Bob felt God’s leading to more local church oriented work and was ordained as a deacon in 1996 and then as a minister of the gospel in 2001. He spent 8 years as a minister of music at churches in Tennessee and Florida.

“When the opportunity arose to reorganize Won by One”, Bob says, “I had to keep pinching myself; I thought that this kind of opportunity had passed me by. I’m living proof of Psalm 37:4, if you delight yourself in the Lord, He will give you the desires of your heart.”

Bob lives in Morristown, TN with Shirl, his beautiful wife of 23 years and his 12 year old son Josh.