TIMOTHY DOCKERY AS BEEN SINGING FOR OVER 2 DECADES Singer & Songwriter, Background Vocalist, Christian, Friend, Encourager of the Heart & Prayer Partner. A VARIETY OF GOSPEL MUSIC STYLES - Southern Gospel, Bluegrass Gospel & Country Gospel, Contemporary Gospel & Contemporary Christian, Christian Pop, Praise & Worship, Soulful Gospel, Inspirational, Traditional Hymns. SPANISH MUSIC - Contemporánea Cristiana Música (Contemporary Christian Music), Alabanza y Adoración Cristiana Música (Praise & Worship Music). Over my 20 years of singing I have sung at Homecomings, Campmeetings, Revivals, Tent Revivals, Biker Rallies, Benefit Singings, Funerals & been on Wide Wide Radio. That is just to name some of the events. GOD IS WRITING MY LIFE STORY as told by Timothy Dockery I will first start out by introducing myself, my full name is Timothy Scott Dockery. Other names I have gone by are Tim and Timmy as I am called by most of my family members. I am known to my Spanish friends as Timoteo (Tee-mo-tay-oh) or for short Timo (Tee-mo). I have been singing Gospel music for many years now. Before I go any further let me stop and tell it from the beginning when this singing ministry of mine all began. I will begin from what I remember as a child and go from there. My grandpa sung and played the guitar, I also have other family members who play instruments and sing as well, so I have been surrounded by music through out my life. But what I have thoughts of are me being a boy, 3 years old visiting my grandparent's house and hearing the sounds of my grandpa singing and playing his guitar. There's something about the music that drew me to the room where I found my grandpa singing, I guess it was the Lord showing me what I would be doing later in life. I remember watching him sing and me and my cousin was little so we tried to sing along with him. My grandpa died when I was 4 years old so I don't have many memories of him. There's more to this story..... As every person does when growing up they have role models or people they look up to. I have loved music all my life. When I was little my mom was unsaved at the time but she would still tell me about Jesus and tell me what was right because she had been brought up right but she had went back on the Lord, she would still play Gospel music to me anyways. I recall hearing my mom playing a tape of The Singing Cookes and I would sing along with it, she would cry some times because she was under conviction and running from God at the time. There was also a tape of The Inspirations that I sang along with. But in 1992 my mom still was unsaved but she started watching a Christian program called, "Nite Line" on a local television station out of Taylors, SC. My mom and dad both would watch the show but not together they would sneek around while the other one was out of the room. The television station was having a praise-a-thon and I seen The McKameys on there I heard them singing and I became I fan of theirs and I am still today. Later the same year, my dad and mom was watching "Nite Line" and Pastors Bob & Clara Hicks of Barnette Grove Cathedral Of Love Emmanuel Holiness Church in Anderson, SC was on there advertising that they was going to be having a church yard sale. The Lord had been dealing with my mom and she told my dad she wanted to go to the church yard sale, and so we went. We was there for a while and the pastor came over to my mom and dad he asked if it would be OK if I could play on the play ground and she said, yes. The pastor and his wife asked my parents do you all attend church anywhere? And my mom said, no, not right now. My mom and dad both got saved at the church yard sale that day and we started going to that church. Some time after that I too excepted Christ into my heart, then I felt a stronger desire to sing. I was 8 years old when I first sung in church, and it was at my home church, Barnette Grove Cathedral Of Love Emmanuel Holiness Church in Anderson, South Carolina. I had no music tracks and did not even know about them then. So my pastor played the piano and I sung along. A few years later a member of the church asked me if I would like to go sing at nursing homes and I said, yes. As time went on I talked with the activity director at a nursing home and did a program on Saturday's by myself and they called it "Timothy's Music". I have a lot of memories of those days, I traveled with members from my church and other people to nursing homes and we would sing together. Some of the people I went with have died and others are now in nursing homes. I once made a close friend with a woman named, Vera who was at a nursing home at I sung at regularly, she was old and was a sickly person, her family lived far away and they didn't visit her much, I called her Granny Vera. She had to have her leg removed and then she lost her will to live. After I finished singing I would always shake hands with the people and I said that I would see them next time. When I came to Vera she said I won't be here next week (I think she knew she was dying). The following week I went to sing and she was gone she had died I was told. One of the women working there said we didn't know how to get a hold of you to tell you that Vera had died. I was young and it hurt me that she had died, I didn't want to go sing anymore at nursing homes I thought of it as a sad place to be because I had lost a close friend that once was there. I also had a speech problem when I was younger (I was tongue tied) and it would hurt sometimes when I talked or sang too much. My pastor's wife encouraged me to have surgery to improve my speech, I had it done when I was 11 years old and was able to sing better and my speech was clearer. I wrote to Nite Line the Christian television station I told them I would come and sing as a guest. A few years later I was on the program with my Pastors Bob & Clara Hicks and they got me on the set with him and told about my surgery and how that I loved to sing. When I was 14 years old I recorded a project called, "Because Of Him" which was recorded in 1998. The Lord started opening doors for me. I have traveled to sing across the United States from as far south in the southeast as Georgia and as far north as Illinois and as far west as the state of Oregon also into Southeast Missouri, West Texas, Southwest & Southeast Arizona. I have shared the stage with some very successful groups and soloists some include: 2 time Dove award winner, Tina Sadler, Larry & Jana Hinson (Larry is from The Original Hinsons), The Branham Family, Barry Winslow (of the Royal Guardsmen), The Hastys & Dudley Smith (former Lead singer of the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries). The Lord has also blessed me with people through the years who have helped me and been an encouragement to me by the things they have said. I know that I am not the only singer out there. Because I know there are others working for the Lord too, we are working together for the same cause to reach people for Christ. There is even more to this story, I could go on and on with it, but I think that I will stop there for now and add more later when other things happen. WHAT AN HONOR!!!!! Back on April 1st, 2007 I had the honor and the privilege to sing the classic beloved hymn, "Amazing Grace" at a friend's mother's funeral. She was 101 years old, yes 101. If she would have lived another week and two days, she would have celebrated her 102nd birthday. Wow! What a life. It was my first funeral to sing at, so I will remember this moment forever, that I had a part in the ending of one's life here on earth, who was liking one week and two days of being: 102 years old that had seen history form. She had the chance in her lifetime to see many things that most people will only read in a book or hear about. RECORDINGS by TIMOTHY DOCKERY: "Because Of Him" (1998) "My Sermon In Song" (2005) "Songs That Never Grow Old" (2009)