"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Luke 2 - 11

    

With a love for God, Country, and Gospel music, Billy Haun has spent most of his life writing and performing music with the greatest passion for Gospel music.  At five years old he took the stage of a Baptist Church as a guest along side his dad's quartet in downtown Odessa, Texas and hasn't stopped since!  From Odessa to all across the country,  and eventually residing now in The Texas Hill Country, he is found doing music almost every Sunday morning in a Gospel worship setting and enjoys working in music throughout the week as a writer and performer of music and more.

     Billy has had the pleasure of working with countless great people in churches as well as several in the country and Gospel music arena.  Among many notable experiences in music, Billy has performed as an artist at Best of Texas Music Festivals,  live on Daystar with Marcus and Joni Lamb, and  played  at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC.  His fondest memories of collaboration include, artist development with Graham Brothers, working in depth with Elvis' conductor, the late Joe Guercio, and lately working in Nashville with Shane Keister and Bruce Baton on the “Only in Pictures,” recording project in conjunction with the kindle published book by the same title. It is a book of his testimony of his life with Jesus written with a child in mind detailing his past, present, and  how the future will bring the fulfilled promises of God.

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1968 was the year of the World's Fare and opening of the HemisFare in San Antonio, Texas.  Many Texas DPS Officers were called up from various parts of Texas to come and assist with the expected surge of visitors.  My dad's brother was one of them. He was called from Ballinger in West Texas to serve on routine patrols. While there answering the call on that October 4th  around 6:30, he lost his life. 

He lost control of his Patrol vehicle at Breckenridge Park, subsequently crashing through a guard rail into the San Antonio River upside down.  He was only 27 years old. His mother had died just 31 days before on September 3rd. My dad never recovered from losing his mother and brother so close together, but it gave him some comfort to give me his brother's name to carry on. 

I am very, very proud of who Billy was and to have his name. While I wish he was here,  and I could have known him, I honor him and his answer of the call to serve and the life he gave for a city not even his own. Words can't describe how much I would have liked to have know him. 

Billy was an incredible man who served as an Abilene policeman before joining Texas DPS. Before that he was in the US Army. While there he served in security at the American Embassy in The Hague.  I recently discovered this adjoined news article. I had never seen a lot of the detail. I didn't know all of the circumstances.  It certainly  leaves you speechless. 

Not too long ago we had a praise night at the main pavilion at Breckenridge park where he died. I didn't put all that together at the time.  I remember it being such a significant powerful night in worship. We sang "How Great is Our God" acapella for what seemed so long but it was so peaceful. It seemed something special. When I see now the details and the whole story I didn't know, I realize now after looking at the map, that he had died in the river just a few yards from that pavilion. 

It is heartbreaking but not without hope.  God is paying attention and eye has not seen what God has prepared for those who love Him. There will soon be a great reunion in the sky.  It won't be long. We will see the people we lost. We will get to hug some of their necks even for the first time.  I know some people don't believe that but heaven will be the greatest family reunion we could ever imagine and it will make up for all the one's we never had.