INSIGHT Magazine March 2019 | Page 12

Video While in Nashville, Walters sang in a rock band before moving to New York. “We moved up to Buffalo, New York with a friend of mine who was moving home to Buffalo to plant a church. Originally I was moving there for music, but he started pouring into me and teaching me to read and write and preach and go back to seminary.” Walters says he began to develop a burden to move home. “Around March 2016 God made it very clear to me that I was supposed to come back home to plant a church, and so we moved home in September 2016.” “Thats my first job and that’s my first love is planting churches and preaching,” Walters continues. “And then during the week I do about 30 hours at an insurance agency managing the office and taking payments and stuff, and then on the weekends I’ll do gigs.” INSIGHT Growing up a “military brat”, Walters says he didn’t know a lot of people when he and his family moved to Southside, and music has opened doors for him to meet people. “I thought, ‘I’ll use what I have to get out and meet folks.’ And probably folks who don’t like the church or have been hurt by the church or left the church or whatever. And maybe I can befriend them and hang out with them and show them something different.” March 2019 12