Seth
Ok, well
I'm just a simple kid who began playing guitar at about 13, during that time I
really wasn't on what people call the right path. As a "mature" 13 years old I
became addicted to drugs, they were a type of escape for me from me. My whole
life I was a Christian, but never really walked the right walk, sometimes I
would talk the talk but never follow through, I kept getting deeper into drugs.
A little less then a year ago I began playing in this band Joy Furnace, they
accepted me when the rest of the "Christian" world wouldn't always, they didn't
care where I came from, they just let me in as one of them, and it meant so much
to me and still does, they really are my brothers and sisters in Christ. Through
this band I was able to become more proud of my faith, I walked with my head up
and my chest out, burning with the desire for God, I no longer wanted to party
and "flush" my life, I saw how great God was through the lives and worship of
teens, he is so very alive, and its awesome. Once again I devoted my life to
Jesus Christ, who has taken my skills of music and molded them to serve in his
army, I no longer play my guitar…he does. For me this is a constant high that I
can't escape, nor want to, I've been in the dumps with drugs and experienced
what they would call unbelievable highs and trips, but Gods are so much greater
and so desirable, you just can't get enough of God's greatness. Drugs of the
world hold no light to the spiritual high of God, a "spirit junky" is what I
want to be. People in the world of drugs are always searching for that first
high, and long for it every time, but no secular high is always the same, but a
spiritual high in our Lord God is, and it is amazing, you just can't get enough,
and God loves to give you what he's got when he empties his pockets, we're in
for a great and awesome surprise, and what a wonderful "high" it is and will be.
Seth "Buckwheat" Bohen, (electric guitar)
P.S. this is just the beginning!!!!!
I guess I'm living proof that God can use the smallest person to do his will. It all started out in the side room of Our Saviors Lutheran Church during VBS. Me and Matt Unright had never even talked before and we decided just to play some worship songs. Then more and more people joined on and now we find ourselves playing in places such as Walter Hoving House, Excel and Beyond the Song! Who would of thought that the son of a drug addict (now a preacher at Conifer Park....go figure), a kid who thought life itself was against him, would later become part of, then leader of the most powerful youth worshippers I have ever met. This team is so important to me and these are the greatest bunch of worshippers and friends I have ever had the fortune of knowing. You guys have made such an impact on my life and nothing in the world can compare to what this team has done for me....what my friends, what my family, and most importantly, what God has done for and in me. Thank you God.
I have been holding this bio off for a really long time, but I'm not going to lie, it has been in my mind and I've been thinking about it quite a bit. Little by little, God has been telling me to write about in this bio. since I'm not a drug addict, pastor's kid (pk-haha Beth!) or a worship leader. I want to make sure that it has everything that God and I want to say in here so here it goes...
I was the third person in the band. I came into the band by just playing the flute on Thursdays with Matt and Chris. Ever since I was about 4 or 5, I knew that I wanted to do something in music when I got older. Something about music was just so amazing for me (I was quite an easy person to get impressed easily even though I still can be that way). I've always wanted to play the flute just because I never knew how it made a sound with no mouthpiece or reed to support it. It looked like magic to me when I went to see wind ensemble bands for a school field trip back in the OSL days. Ever since I was younger (I cant say little cause I'm the 2nd shortest person in the band-ha ha Beth again) I've also had a desire to learn the guitar.. I remember going into my parents' room and I would actually measure my hand to see if my fingers could reach the 6th string (yea yea laugh it up peoples) that was how desperate I was. So I started playing the electric, but i didn't like it. So a little over a year ago, i started learning the acoustic. I remember at some random practice, Matt told me to learn the acoustic (since he knew i played electric) to "take his spot" not the whole leading thing though, that is all Chris's. DON'T WORRY, I'M GETTING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS. When I started playing acoustic, that was when I started my real walk with God, I chose that I really wanted to do this and dedicate my life to him. I'm a born again Christian since 2004. There is one bible verse that I've always heard of and prophesized over but never really took it seriously. That's Psalms 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." My desires when I was a little Kid was to play the flute and acoustic guitar yet God has fulfilled those desires and increasing my talents everyday. God has given me those desires and a hunger to worship, he has placed me here and I'm loving it. The only other thing that I have to say, this is for everyone! is to trust in the Lord and he will get you through tough times that you cant do without him.
"We all shouldn't be limited of something if we are doing something for the works of the Lord " - *~Annie B~*
Hi! Well this is all so new to me! This is a awesome experience and it’s so awesome as I
learn more on the guitar and I get to know more about the other band members in Joy Furnace. Let me tell you all how it’s started for me to get in! Generation conference 2005 was the one of the greatest things to happen to me! It was in one of the songs I forget things like that but I felt God was telling me to just start playing guitar for Joy Furnace and I was like wow God just wait a minute I’ll be the youngest with the least experience in the band and who knows I could be so bad that they don’t want me in there. But God just said don’t worry you will do fine! So the minute I hear this I was like ok ok ok ok ok ok.. JON!!! I need to play with Joy Furnace and he was like yeah sure whatever and I was like oh yeah I got touched and all that jazz. So when we got back I started practicing with Joy Furnace and its been so awesome it’s a honor to play with Seth and Annie because there like the two best guitars I think its just awesome to play with them because every practice I learn more. It all happened really fast and it was pretty cool but I always got discouraged because everyone of my brothers and sister were playing and were like so important and everyone was like when are you going to be up there Peter now I can say I am up there I am.