About Me

First Name	Doug
Nickname	Doug Clark
Why I'm Here	78 years old today (August 10, 2020), and TAC was my wife Ruth’s birthday gift to me. We spent many years working with our Assemblies of God churches in the Middle East, the Arab Gulf and North Africa, and are now retired in Fort Collins, Colorado (about an hour north of Denver). My two “hobbies” are guitar and translating/subtitling Turkish folk song videos into English (on YouTube). We’ve been married nearly 54 years, have two sons and five grandsons (no girls in my line from my great-grandparents to my grandsons. I’m rhythm guitarist when I’m on the platform at Timberline Church here in Fort Collins, a congregation of some 5000 folks in four weekend services.
City	1) I hate guitar poorly played by someone who should have learned more by now (mainly me). 2) I play trumpet (anything with valves really), flute, Baroque soprano recorder, and guitar. By far, I find the guitar the hardest instrument I've ever tried to learn. 3) If I'm going to be on a church platform playing alongside a dozen other instrumentalists, some of whom are semi-professionals, I don't want to be the least-competent member. I think God deserves better, and His people do too. 4) My guitar heroes include Hall & Oates, Pat Metheny, Joao Gilberto, Molly Tuttle, Eric Clapton, Vince Gill, the Eagles, and too many others to name. Much of my practice (45 minutes to an hour most days) consists of firing up one of their videos alongside the lyrics/chords I've input to the OnSong app on my iPad, and using them as my metronome and strum pattern examples.

Doug