JG: I’ve always been involved in the church since a very young age. My mom has several brothers that are pastors. I was always helping them with their music, so it was like I was in youth camp all my life. I was blessed to find the Lord at a very young age. I don’t have a great testimony about being delivered from drugs or alcohol. But I can testify that He saved me and has kept me. I’ve made more than my share of mistakes along the way, but His grace was always sufficient. He is ever faithful. CG: You have been around gospel music most of your life. So, when did you really know you wanted to sing in a group? Professionally? JG: I’ve always been involved with music in the church, since a very young age, so we were constantly forming groups. I never considered or even dreamed of full-time ministry until we organized Heaven Bound. We knew early on we had something special and the Lord has His hand on us. CG: What groups have you sung with? Tell us something about each one. JG: I sang with several local groups including a group called the Foundations. That group will always be special to me. It was the first group I went in the studio with to record, and it was where I met all the guys that later became Heaven Bound.
Gold City’s bus, the reruns were running.
Jeff Gibson and Bern Gibson are pictured on their wedding day CG: Tell us about your wife and support system. How did you meet? Tell us something about her. JG: I met and started dating my wife in high school, and we were married during our college years. It was great. With her help, I made the dean’s list every semester after that. She has been such a blessing in my life. June will be 42 years of marriage. Bern is the best. Of course I was just 10 when we got married. CG: What is important to you today? JG: The most important things in my life are the Lord, ministry and my family. Of course, when I was traveling full time all those years and writing constantly, I ate and slept Gospel music, but even then, nothing was as important as God and family.
Heaven Bound and Gold City are pictured eating together. Pictured are: (L to R) Tim Riley, Brian Free, Jeff Gibson, Ken Eubanks, Rick Busby, Lawrence Taylor, Garry Jones CG: What is your favorite food, color, TV show? JG: I love watermelon and any southern cooking (of course that means fried and lots of butter). My favorite TV show and pastime is watching and talking the “Andy Griffith Show.” My friend Brian Free and I used to talk Andy Griffith constantly, and any time I was on
CG: When you start writing a song, what comes first, lyrics, melody? What speaks to you when you write a song? Is there a concept? JG: When I write, I never know when it will come, unless I’m just sitting down to finish a song or if the melody or lyric will come first. For me it varies. The idea may be something I read or heard. Sometimes, I’ve even dreamed the group was singing a song, and I’d get up and write it or put it on a recorder till later. More often than not, I’ll be reading the Scripture or hear a sermon, and it lights a spark in me with an idea. I learned early never to ignore it and wait till later. But