User:Cycling Pastor

Allen Snider has been a pastor for 25 years and a cyclist since childhood, having completed three degrees (A.S., B.A., and M.Div.) pastored 6 churches in North Texas. He was also a graduate of United Electronics Institute in Little Rock, Arkansas, having worked in the electronics industry -- commercial, consumer, and industrial, from 1973 to 1989. And he was a graduate of Grayson County College (A.A.) in North Texas prior to becoming a pastor. Pastor Snider has bicycled about 50,000 miles since 1991 and continues to cycle in spite of heart health issues and work demands and expectations. He and his wife have lived in eight different homes in their 37 years of marriage, many of those being parsonages owned by the local churches where they have been warmly welcomed and blessed to serve, two of those being houses they built with the aide of various contractors, but having done a lot of the work themselves. The Sniders have three children, Lisa, Tomi, and Eric, all married with children of their own. Lisa is a star realtor in the Texoma area, having been a coach and fitness trainer in the past. Tomi is an orthdontist aide and wedding planner. Eric is a building-remodel contractor, sometimes specializing in fitting rooms and facilities for handicapped and elderly clients.