Bob G ShupeMr. Shupe is very involved in his church and is a past Moderator of the Nashville Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is an active elder at his church and past Minister of Music, serving in that position for forty-eight years. He attnded Free Will Baptist Bible College and then attended and graduated from Belmont University in 1973. He is the father of two, grandfather of two, and the husband of Valerie Shupe for the past fifty-two years. Mr. Shupe, as a teenager, felt called to the Christian mission field which led him to the higher education he pursued. After serving for a year and a half at the First Baptist Church in Portland, Tennessee as Minister of Music and Youth, he felt a different call. After a two-and-a-half-year search, he discovered the insurance industry. This industry allowed him to provide for his family and fund and provide time for several mission projects throughout the remainder of his forty-three-year career. Some of those were working for eight years on a Sudanese Church project for refugees in the U.S.; music programs in Colombia, South America; and raising funds for various other mission projects while directing music for many years in a Cumberland Presbyterian Church.Other music projects included co-writing a historic musical about the birth of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1810 during the Second Great Awakening in the Cumberland Valley. The research for this Great Awakening project and his tenure teaching a Bible Discussion Group for several years gave birth to the idea for this, his fifth book entitled, Between Two Breaths: The Seasons of Creation. As the book developed it became apparent that his original idea had vastly expanded, giving rise to a second subtitle: The Birth and Death of Everything Through the Eyes of Faith, Science, and Religion. In addition to serving as past moderator of the Nashville Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, he currently serves on the Presbyterial Board of Missions working with several churches on mission outreach. Mr. Shupe's love for history came out of research into the formation of several, now-large denominations that were birthed during the Second Great Awakening in the late 1700s and early 1800s. His love and appreciation for science was a result of his family moving to Florida in 1959 to a little town about twenty miles south of Cape Canaveral (for a while Cape Kennedy). He spent his young life from the third-grade through high school graduation in the middle of one of the greatest scientific advancements in history. Many of his friends' parents worked in the space program or for companies who supplied goods and services to the program. Mr. Shupe remembers standing on the steps of his elementary school watching the contrail of Alan Shepherd's space capsule soar overhead, making him the first man in the U.S. to reach space. A few years later he was sitting in his bedroom watching TV when news broke about three astronauts who were burned alive while trapped in their capsule during a training exercise. That happened less than twenty miles from where he was sitting. Read More Read Less