User:ZUrban061989

Zachary M. Urban was born a native of West Chester, Pennsylvania on June 6th, 1989 to Russell Emlin Urban Jr., and Linda Marie Urban Forte. Urban's parents met, and married while actively serving in the United States Marine Corps in North Carolina in the early to mid 80s. At just 10-years-old, on January 19th, 2000, Urban's dad, Russell Emlin Urban Jr. suffered a serious heart attack and died. Several months later that same year, Zach's oldest sister Holly was invited out to a local independent Baptist church by a co-worker while working at J.C.Penny. That same Sunday night, Zach, and his sister attended church there, and before the service was over, Zach, and his sister walked the sanctuary and trusted Jesus as their Saviour. As Zach got older he started to take an interest in history; especially his Italian heritage, and with his family just recently buying a new family computer, that made researching things that interested him easy. As Zach became more aware of the KJV-only, and fundamental movement of Christianity, he started gaining interest in men like Jack T. Chick. After a few years of being aquainted with Chick's material, Zach was then told about Dr. Peter S. Ruckman who he later started reading up on, and shortly after getting his hands on some of his material, became a great admirer of Dr. Ruckman. Many of Ruckman's beliefs and teachings were already embraced and believed by Zach before he heard of Dr. Ruckman but Ruckman's strong, unswerving, powerful teaching methods helped Zach out and encouraged Zach tremendously in his faith concerning the Bible