| Jason Sansbury was born August 27, 1974 in Panama City, Florida. He is a 1992 graduate of Westside High School in Augusta, GA where he was active in Young Life and served as the yearbook photographer. After graduation, he attended the University of Georgia and was active in the Wesley Foundation and its ministries on campus there. He graduated from Augusta State University in 1997 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in English. Soon after, he moved to Waycross, GA, where he worked for both Trinity United Methodist Church and the parachurch organization Young Life. Ever since, Jason has served in full time ministry in a local church, as well as been involved in numerous camp and retreat experiences, both with the conferences he has served in as well as being a founding partner of Crossed-Up Ministries.
Jason is passionate about helping students grow deeper in their faith and helping them succeed well into their adult lives. His greatest joy in ministry is the former students who now serve at churches across the southeast as pastors, youth workers and children workers. For fun, Jason loves movies, music and television. He is a fount of useless pop culture trivia and dreams of being a winner on the TV show “Jeopardy.”
Jason is single and lives in Bellevue, TN. |
| Harry Robinson was born September 29, 1945, in Canton, Ohio. That’s one month after the end of World War II, which makes him as old as a person can be, and still be called a Baby Boomer. The youngest of three sons, he found that his older brothers, Tom and Dick, both belonged to an entirely different generation. Therefore he was left to his own devices growing up, which may explain some of his quirkier qualities.
He started playing trumpet in the second grade, studying with William Strassner, the first chair cornetist with the John Phillip Sousa Band. He played in all available school ensembles throughout his educational career. After moving from Canton to Pittsburgh, and then to Boston, Harry graduated from high school and spent a year at Gordon College in Wenham MA., where he majored in sleeping and learning to play the guitar. After being threatened with a trip to the Marine recruiter (this was during the Vietnam era), he transferred to Leland Powers School in Boston, where he earned a two year degree in theater. During that time he played in various folk bands in the New England area.
Alas, there was no avoiding the military in 1966. He enlisted in the Navy, played in the band during Boot Camp, and then was assigned to the Defense Information School for training in journalism and broadcasting. While there he also performed in coffee houses and at Purdue University. He also acting in the local theater scene.
His first assignment in the Navy took him to Newport RI where he edited the Naval Station newspaper, The Navalog, for two years. During that time he performed with the New York-based Progressive Bluegrass Band. As a representative of the Navy he also played all over the country at folk and bluegrass festivals.
Next he was sent of to the Aleutian Islands as program director for radio and television at Adak Naval Air Station. After a year it was off to Vietnam for a stint as public affairs petty officer aboard the hospital ship Repose AH16. While onboard the ship he met and became friends with The New Christy Minstrels, who were on a USO tour. They invited Harry to join the band after his tour of duty.
May 8, 1970, Harry left the Navy for a short stint with the Christies. This led to forming a band in LA, and eight years of recording and club work. During that time he met and married Cheryl, and in 1974 Seth was born.
In 1978 Dolly Parton invited Harry to join her band. After rehearsing in Nashville he decided the quality of life in the mid-south was a good fit. He and the family moved to Kingston Springs (a long way from the San Fernando Valley in more ways than one). The marriage with Cheryl did not work out and they were divorced in 1980. In 1982 he married Debbie, and they have been happy and busy ever since.
For the next fifteen years he played with a variety of artists ranging from Don Everly, Guy Clark, Tom Wopat, Skip Euing to Lee Greenwod and currently Gene Cotton.
In 1993, he retired from playing. After music directing a production of Cotton Patch Gospel at Martin Methodist College, he was offered an artist residency. During the next three and one half years he co-led the college choir, taught film history and guitar while carrying 24-29 hours a semester. He earned a BA in Church Music.
It was during this time he began working in churches. His first music directorship was at Ashland City UMC, and shortly thereafter he came to Bethlehem where he remains today.
His interests include dinner out with Debbie, his home theater, and playing the Dobro. |
