Adrian grad­u­at­ed from col­lege in 1955 with a de­gree in Hor­ti­cul­tur­al En­gin­eer­ing, then left for Van­cou­ver, Brit­ish Co­lum­bia (BC), Ca­na­da, three days af­ter grad­u­a­tion. For 12 years he ran a hor­ti­cul­ture and pest man­age­ment bus­i­ness, then worked for var­i­ous pro­vin­cial gov­ern­ment min­is­tries. In 1984 he earned a Mas­ter of Pest Man­age­ment de­gree from Si­mon Fra­ser Un­i­ver­si­ty in Burn­a­by, BC. Af­ter ear­ly re­tire­ment in 1992 and a lot of read­ing, he:

…start­ed to real­ize how ut­ter­ly cor­rect God’s Word is and that the pro­phe­cies must be ac­cept­ed lit­er­al­ly. Al­though ac­tive in choirs, I nev­er had any mu­sic train­ing. Then the most amazing hap­pened in 1997: Su­dden­ly I start­ed writ­ing lyr­ics for hymns, some trans­la­tions, ma­ny par­a­phras­es, but most en­tire­ly new lyr­ics. His Call was the first one. I soon real­ized that my Lord still had a job for me and thank Him daily for this sud­den gift.

Hymns

1. The New Jerusalem