User:Jakwerz

Jak Werz was born in Gloucester City, NJ on October 21, 1968 at Underwood Memorial Hospital, Woodbury NJ to Jack Sr. and Bonita Werz. At the age of 7, the family moved to Erial, NJ located in Camden County. Jak was a 1987 Graduate of Highland regional High School in 1987. Jak spent most of his free time surfing in Ocean City with friends and like many young people, jumped from job to job. After several years as a lifeguard at Bellmawr Lake in Bellmawr NJ, in 1996 Jak met Amy Johnson of Marlton, NJ and began dating. Soon after they met, both agreed to end their courtship, but again were reunited in 1998. They were married in October of 2000. Living in Ewing, NJ then Merchantville, NJ, where Amy was a school teacher. An opportunity presented itself for the couple to move to Ocean City, NJ where Jak begin an independent record label. In 2002, Jak's label Living Clay Entertainment (2002-2004) signed local Rap Duo Flo-Titus to it's ranks. Within a year, Flo-Titus was negotiating a national recording contract with Black Tree records of Moorestown, NJ (a division of Universal Records). The contract negotations fell apart and soon after Living Clay ceased operations. During this time Jak met with Mark Gold, a seasoned photographer from Ocean city, NJ and the two formed AGAPE images photography. Within two years, the company had received a national award for their work in their Christian Ministry "the A.G.A.P.E Worship Journey" a multi-sensory journey into Bibilical stories. In 2008 and 2009, the company had received over 20 national photography awards and is ranked in the top 300 photographers nationally by DailyAwards.com. AGAPE images is now located in Ocean City, NJ in Trader's Lane (34th and Simpson Ave.) Jak currently lives in Atlantic County with his wife Amy and their two children. For more information: www.agapeimagesphoto.com