About Pastor Wayne Patterson – Singer/Songwriter
Pastor Wayne is an inspirational singer/songwriter. The Lord has blessed him with words and music, and has given him a message for the last days.
Pastor Wayne has been singing since the age of 12, and writing inspired music since the age of 15. He is gifted in guitar, bass, drums, and keyboard. He waited 12 years before finally pushing forward into a Gospel music ministry. The Lord has taken him in much training. Pastor Wayne met Jesus Christ in 1979 and began to play in a few soft rock groups like Blue Mist, The Phase, and Universal Underpass. Then he decided to get serious about his relationship with Jesus. He became a member of a small church and began to study the bible. It was at that church that he was later ordained as a minister of the Gospel.
At the same time, he began to expand a construction company that he started at the age of 17 that had developed into 3 construction companies, which he still owns today. He also was a Christian bookstore owner, held a weekly coffee house, featured many local artists. He is also an ordained minister.
Over the years, Pastor Wayne has played with a host of different international artists, such as Phil Keaggy, David Meece, Kent Henry, and so on.
The Lord has shown Pastor Wayne and has been preparing him for a worldwide ministry of encouragement. He is committed not to compromise the music, or the gospel that the Lord has given him. He will stay strong in God’s Word, and much time in prayer. He will always point people to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. He truly believes that the Lord gave him a vision, and that God is watching over it, as He is the author of it.
Pastor Wayne took a short break in his musical career so he could be there for his daughter so she would know who he was as her father. When Caroline turned 18, He began starting his music career again with his good friend Mike Biasin, and Krys, who became his wife in March 2019.
God is so faithful and is the keeper of our dreams. He wants us to succeed more than we want to and has been there every step of the way. All the glory goes to God, as we continue to pick up our cross and move forward for Him.
About Krys Patterson – Singer
My story is much like Pastor Wayne’s and Mike’s in that music has played a significant role in my life from my earliest memories. Yet my story differs in that I was blessed to have been raised in a Christian home with grandparents in ministry.
Both of my grandfathers attended Moody Bible Institute around the same time. My maternal grandfather attended the day school studying Pastoral Ministries and my paternal grandfather attended night school studying missions. My father was 5 yrs old and my mother was 4 yrs old when their fathers were students at Moody. That love for the Lord was passed down generation to generation.
When I was 5 yrs old I sat in “big church” with my 2 older brothers in the 2nd row during the Sunday evening service. Big church meant I was too old for the nursery and there was no “children’s church” on Sunday evenings. The Pastor had been delivering a series of messages on the Book of Revelation. He had a curtain drawn across the front of the sanctuary with pictures on it depicting the timeline for events. It is often said that a child of age 5 is too young to understand Salvation. I say it depends on the child. I certainly understood and still remember vividly at age 57 the events, the thoughts, and emotions of that experience. One Sunday night the Pastor talked about Jesus saying, “Depart from Me, ye iniquity, I never knew you.” And he talked about Eternal Separation and the Lake of Fire. I already knew about Jesus being born and died on a cross and rose again. It was the separation from my brothers and my parents that I had dreams about all week. I could not stop thinking about it. The next Sunday I went forward during the altar call and asked Jesus into my heart.
Why did I start my biography talking about my grandfathers going to Moody Bible Institute? Because there are no coincidences only God-incidents. First, I was baptized when I was 9 by Dr. Longcore at the church my maternal grandfather had started. Then, I attended Appalachian Bible College in Bradley, WV which was founded my grandfathers’ classmates at Moody. My paternal grandmother lived about an hour away and she had donated many of my grandfather’s textbooks to the library.
The verse “train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it” can easily be said of me. I would love to say I had stayed on the narrow road; followed the yellow brick road; never strayed…yada, yada – oh look! A butterfly. Let’s follow it! Yes, that was me into my 2nd year in Bible college. A series of distractions and events allowed me to lose sight of where I needed to put my focus and my trust. I trusted in people, jobs, health, and wealth. All the tricks and traps that Satan so easily uses to get my eyes off Jesus and off the call He originally had on my life.
I kept attending church off and on but struggled to find a church that felt like “home.” In 1998 when I moved back to Maine I decided enough was enough. It was time to quit “playing church” and to become the woman and mother God wanted me to be. A new series of heartbreaks began almost immediately, but I believe it was a pruning of my life. Just like a farmer needs to prune the vine or tree so it can bear more fruit, God needed to prune my life so I could bear more spiritual fruit as well. Now I know how painful it is for the poor tree every time it gets pruned. That sap that flows is like tears being shed.
In 2013 I was ready to venture out after the healing and visit a friend’s church on a Sunday evening. There I met Mike and then Pastor Wayne. Pastor Wayne sang a song he wrote “Change My Life Lord.” The words and melody brought me to tears. It was the prayer of my life. These 2 friends asked me to attend one of their practices and we have been singing together ever since.
I had the absolute pleasure of becoming Mrs. Pastor Wayne Patterson on March 30, 2019 and am now fulfilling the calling God originally had on my life. He has blessed me more abundantly and graciously than I could ever imagine.
About Mike Biasin – singer/keyboardist
I was born Michael Wayne Biasin on Friday, August 23rd 1968. I mention my middle name because it was prophetic. It signified the person I would serve with for much of my adult life.
When I was born, I could not see in front of me to pick up my bottle. My mother said a prayer to God that He would grant me enough vision so I could get around without bumping into everything. Though I would remain legally blind, God granted my mom’s request and shortly after this prayer, I picked up my bottle for the first time.
I am legally blind because of an endocrine condition that caused my optic nerve to not fully develop. That same endocrine condition is responsible for me being 56 and still looking like I’m 30 years old.
I think I was born with music in my soul. At the age of 5, I banged on my foster brother’s guitar. That same year I would walk to the school where I attended Kindergarten and pound on the piano. I didn’t know how to play. I just made noise and drove the teachers absolutely crazy! At about 8 my folks tried giving me lessons on an organ but my fingers were still a bit small. I soon started picking out melodies on a harmonica. When my dad would come home from work and hear me do this, he would promise me a new piano. I moved from Sanford to Shapleigh in 1978 just before turning 10. I remember going into the school and watching a fellow student play songs on the piano with his left hand doing chords and his right hand doing the melody. I remember him playing the song “Una Paluma Blanca” and soon I was able to copy what he did. Shortly after this I got my first piano and started lessons. The lessons had to be taped because I could not see well enough to read sheet music. I took lessons for 8 years.
I met Jesus at the age of 13. My mother operated a boarding home for the elderly. A Jehovah’s Witness lady started coming to visit the residents and give them literature. She started giving me literature also. My mom decided that if I was going to believe the right way, she’d better intervene. She got me a large print Philips translation of the New Testament. I started reading it for hours a day and learning who Jesus is and what He did for me. I remember that summer talking to some of the neighborhood kids and they invited me to Sunday School. One of them said the magic words. “Sometimes after Sunday School, the superintendent brings ice cream.” That’s all it took. I started attending Sunday School. My mom would give me a dollar to put in the offering plate. And yes, it was true. Cal, the superintendent brought chocolate mint ice cream on occasion. 😊 It wouldn’t be long before I was playing piano for the Sunday School. The following winter I attended baptism classes, and I accepted Christ and was baptized that spring at Shapleigh Pond. I’ve been serving the Lord ever since.
I mentioned in the beginning that my middle name was prophetic because of who I would be serving with most of my life. I met Pastor Wayne in 1997. Just prior, in the summer of 1996, I was having Sunday dinner with my family. My sister who was working in Wells made mention that she saw signs for a Gospel Tent Revival in Wells. My comment to her was “You should check it out.” Little did I know that the very next day, I would be in Springvale interviewing for a job. I don’t even remember what the job was but it did not come through. As I was leaving, a neighbor of mine pulled up and offered me a ride. She mentioned that she was on her way to Wells to check out that same revival my sister referred to. She asked me if I wanted to come along. I did. Previously I had been playing music in a country group and God had been dealing with me that this was not what He wanted for my life. I went to the revival, and was absolutely overwhelmed by the Presence and Power of God. I rededicated my life to Him and said that from then on, I wanted to be only where the Presence of God was. I played one more time with the country group. I moved shortly after this and my keyboard broke! It was a Yamaha portable keyboard and it stopped working! As time went on I told the Lord if He made a way for it to be fixed, or for me to get another one, I would use it for His Glory. I did get another keyboard. I then got involved in the church that hosted the revival, and four months later, I was introduced to Pastor Wayne.
Pastor Wayne was auditioning for his band. The man that brought me was supposed to audition but felt led to bring me instead. We went to his home, and the meeting turned into a sing-along. Pastor Wayne and his then manager were getting ready to leave because the night was not what they had expected. As they got up to go, I said “You haven’t auditioned me yet!” I got to the piano, and as Pastor Wayne sang songs I had never heard, I played along. He knew I was the perfect fit, and a friendship akin to Jonathan and David was formed. We played and sang together from then on. We met his wife Krys in 2013, and then The Greatest Gift was formed and began to soar.
Along with playing and singing in The Greatest Gift, I assist the pastor at our church, and I am the co-host and producer of a radio program called The Spirit Calls. I give God the glory for all that I have been able to achieve and attribute it all to my friendship with Pastor Wayne, who believed in me enough to push me beyond what I ever thought I could do. I am excited about the road ahead as The Greatest Gift presses on to the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus.
About Dan
About Dan Harmon – Technical Support
I accepted Christ at a young age. I went to many different churches but couldn’t find one that I felt that I belonged to. I happened to meet a friend that was my roommate from 30 years ago who told me about his church. That friend was Mike Biasin of The Greatest Gift. I went to a service at The Little House of Hope and Prayer and never left.
I noticed during one service that Krys was so into the singing that she kept forgetting to advance to the next PowerPoint slide. So, I asked her if she needed some help. I took over the computer and after about a year of running the computer for the church, Pastor Wayne asked me if I wanted to run the computer for The Greatest Gift. I accepted and that’s how I became Technical Support for The Greatest Gift.