About Our Family!
Blaine and Christine Bowman were married in August 1977 and have been on the road, engaged in full-time ministry of God’s Word and music since returning from their honeymoon. They continue to conduct 125 to 150 meetings and concerts annually, including events such as church meetings, teaching seminars, festivals, fairs, revivals, conferences, city parks, biker rallies, cowboy churches, staff parties, Christmas and Valentine banquets, pulpit supply, private parties, and retreats. With several number one songs on the gospel charts, they also received the Comedian of the Year award from CGMG in 2002. Their children, Tiffany and Luke, accompanied them in full-time ministry for over 20 years and still occasionally, along with other gifted musicians, join them on the road. Approximately one-third of Blaine & Christine’s travel time is spent as a band, and the rest as a duet. Christine, a gifted concert pianist, collaborates with Blaine, a professional guitarist, bassist, and pianist, who has produced over 75 musical projects. They have covered over 2,000,000 miles since their marriage.
Known as "God’s idea of a good time," their primary goal is to share Jesus Christ with the lost and edify the church. They are open to any size church, having ministered from coast to coast in the United States and some internationally. Blaine, with a BA in music and religious science from Logos Christian College and an MA in church history from Aidan University, conducts teaching seminars on subjects like the Holy Spirit, new creation realities, the victory provided by Jesus for every child of God, and faith in God's Word. They have recorded over 300 songs in various styles and appeal to all ages!
BLAINE BOWMAN was saved during the "Jesus Movement" in 1971 in an ANDRAE CROUCH concert in Denver, Colorado. In 1973 he started preaching and went full-time into the ministry at age 20 in 1976. Blaine was ordained in 1978 and has been credentialed with Open Bible Churches since 1983. Blaine wears a lot of hats as husband, father, preacher, Bible teacher, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, bus driver, booking agent, newsletter editor, website "uploader,” and has taught classes at a local Bible college, as well as presently serves on the Board of Regents of Covenant University in Hudson, FL.
A few of his musical & record producing influences have been Andrae Crouch, Ray Benson, Bill Maxwell, Vince Gill, Kenny Hinson, & Hadley Hockensmith. He holds teaching seminars on the subjects of faith, righteousness, the Holy Spirit, spirit/soul/body, victory, grace & God's covenant of peace. Blaine has a Bachelor's Degree from Logos Christian College in Jacksonville, Florida in Religious Science, Practical Ministry & Music. In 2023 he graduated from Aidan University with a Master's Degree in Church History. Sharing the WORD and "seeing the lights come on" in the hearers is Blaine's first love and writing and singing songs that provoke thought and challenge to the hearers is also a joy to him. He & his son, Luke operate their own “Studio at the Ranch,” where they record their own projects and occasionally projects for others. He has recently published his first book, “A YEAR IN THE WORD WITH BLAINE,” which is a 443 page devotional, Bible study guide and sermon starter.
When he is home he loves to cut trees, clear ground, work in the barn (that he's making to look like Cracker Barrel inside), ride his Quarter Horse around the ranch and spend time with his granddaughters, Nadia & Natalie. A great Saturday at home would be biscuits and gravy for breakfast and a trip to one of three flea markets in his area!
CHRISTINE BOWMAN had a dream about playing PIANO when she was 9 years old and today is one of the finest pianists in Gospel Music! She sang as a young girl with her two sisters in a little family trio called the "Maxon Sisters". In her teens she sang and traveled with the Roger Noble Singers and then the Southern-Aires Quartet. She met Blaine in 1975, they were married in 1977, and she has been in full-time ministry with him since then! She is an excellent concert pianist and does some of the piano on the studio projects. She loves tight vocal harmony and makes sure the other band members are singing it right! Some of her favorite things are green tea, sitting on her back porch swing, and watching old black and white movies. She rises early and does exercises on videos & on TV, then reads the Word and prays. She & Tiffany work as background singers occasionally. She even drives the tour bus sometimes. She keeps the log house clean and tidy, loves to cook when home, and makes sure everyone takes their vitamins! She is one wonderful wife and mother, and now loves to spend time with our two grandchildren, Nadia Rose & Natalie Rayne Forte. She also works part-time, two days a week, at B Lewie Salon in Lebanon, OH.
TIFFANY BOWMAN FORTE plays BASS GUITAR for the band. She started playing bass at age 7 and has become a great concert bassist as well as doing the "tracking" for studio projects. Tiff received JESUS as Lord & Savior at an early age and has served the Lord all her life. In spring of 2003 Tiffany graduated from Lebanon High School and also graduated from the Warren County Career Center with a Cosmotology degree. She works part-time doing hair and still travels, sings and plays bass for the band on a part time basis. She married Michael Forte in October of 2010 and lives in Lebanon, OH. They have two lovely daughters, Nadia, born Christmas Day of 2015, & Natalie, born March 7, 2017. She works from home for Cengage Group.
She loves to bring her daughters down to Treemendus Ranch to ride horses. She also sings on the worship team at her home church & is a studio background singer at our studio. Her favorite style of music is R&B, but she has a love and appreciation for everything else from Western Swing to Jazz. Her first love is music and singing for JESUS.
She loves the music of Joss Stone, Martina McBride, Elana James, Brandon Lake, Maverick City, John Mayer, Lauren Daigle & likes Coffee House, Channel 17 on XM Radio. She has written several original songs and has released two solo projects to date. She has had a #1 and a #9 song on the Gospel charts! She shares occasionally with ladies group and church meetings and her primary message is who we are in Christ and the value God placed on us! She loves to read and loves books by Staci & John Eldridge, Joyce Meyer, and Stormie Omartian. She is very active in music ministry, as well as youth ministry at her home church, Faith Building Church, in Lebanon, OH.
LUKE BOWMAN brightens up the room when he walks in! He thinks and dreams DRUMS constantly and his playing shows it! His favorite style of music is JAZZ/FUSION, but can play ANY style of music.He has patterned himself after drummer greats Dave Weckl, Bill Maxwell, Carter Beauford, Keith Edwards, David Sanger, Steve Gadd & his favorite mentor Dennis Chambers.. Luke has done drum clinics at music stores and praise & worship seminars. His 1999 drum instructional video has helped many beginners get started on drums. He currently has a YouTube site where he shares drum lessons. Luke graduated Lebanon High School in May 2004 and works at Colony Hardware in Cincinnati, OH. He is also an experienced studio musician, recording engineer & record producer.
He loves riding horses and has a real love for cars, and can tell you the name of ANY of them when he spots them on the highway. Luke also does great impersonations of many people from Jim Carrey, Louie Armstrong, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris Farley and Sean Connery and uses this ability to share the Gospel of Jesus in Bowman concerts. His Christian comedy has brought joy and laughter to thousands across the USA. In November of 2016 he married a lovely lady named Karla Spencer, from Kentucky. They recently bought their first house in Leesburg, OH. Karla teaches at a Christian School in Wilmington, OH & also has a graphics company called “Faith & Works.” Luke & Karla still travel on a part time basis with the Bowman Band, but most Sundays they are at their home church, Faith Family Church in Wilmington, OH
THANK GOD
FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN THE
“HELPS” MINISTRY WHO HELP US MUSICALLY!
FIRST CORINTHIANS 12:28
RANDY MILLER and Blaine have been friends since the 1970’s when they attended the same church together in Centerville, OH. Randy has recorded with Blaine & his band since 1984. In 2005 he officially became a band member.
Randy is one of the most sought after studio and concert guitarist in the Dayton/Cincinnati, Ohio area and the Midwest. He and his wife Sandy have traveled with the Bowman Band all across the country and as far as Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Florida and Mississippi.
He will be retiring the end of 2024 from decades of employment at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, OH. The Millers have two sons, Sean & Adam, and 2 granddaughters they love to spend time with.
Blaine & Randy love to play guitar together and often play “twin guitar licks” on some of the Gospel Parodies we perform in concert! He and Sandy are solid in their walk with Jesus and we are so blessed to have them be a part of our ministry!
STEPHEN LAKE met Blaine at a bus company in Miamisburg, OH back in 2002. Stephen was Blaine’s “go to guy” when mechanical issues came up with the bus while on tour. Over time they became close friends and in 2009 Stephen started playing DRUMS for the band.
Although Luke (and Tiffany) still play music with the band, they are not full-time employed with our ministry, but have full-time jobs at other places. Stephen started filling in for Luke and now plays 25-30 times a year with the band. What a drummer he is!
Much like the Bowman kids, Stephen grew up with Music and started playing professionally with his dad, Stephen Lake Sr., in country music when he was 11 years old! The band was called Stephen Lake & the Swingmasters.
Stephen and his father’s band have provided the band for many Grand ‘Ole Opry and Her Haw artists. On some tours they would furnish “the band and the bus.”
Many years Stephen has been a math teacher for Franklin, Ohio city schools (where he resides,) and this fall of 2024 he will start a new adventure teaching music at Warren County Career Center in Lebanon, OH.
Stephen, his wife Nicki, and their children Aubrey and Grant, all have a solid relationship with Jesus Christ. We are so blessed to know them and thank God that he brought them into our lives and ministry. Stephen is such a blessing on the road trips and sometimes helps Blaine drive.
His early years as a drummer, in the country and western swing genre, he was second to none. Since playing with us, with our variety of styles, he has mastered funk, R & B, classic rock and Salsa.
Although he is about 13 years older than Luke, he has red hair, and sometimes he tells folks that he is “Luke’s Stunt Double!” to say the least, he is the life of the party!
MIKE TURNER, known also as “Mike T. and also “Hightower” is such a blessing to our ministry. He filled in on bass guitar for Tiffany when she went on her honeymoon in October of 2010. Every since then he has become a regular on the Bowman platform, and what an awesome bass player he is!
Mike’s grandfather was a musician on the famous “Midwestern Hayride” decades ago, which was aired out of Cincinnati, ,OH. Mike evidently got the music gene!
He has played Gospel music all his life. He was the music director for his church, the Gathering Place, in Florence, KY for 28 years! He still attends there, when he’s not on the road with us. He’s a walking “numbers” encyclopedia. Dates, people, movies, birthdays, actors—he’s one interesting man! He’s a talker! It’s the going joke in the band that he could “talk a dog off of a meat wagon.”
Mike has a great work ethic. At one time he had two trucking jobs, a lawn service and still squeezed us in 2-3 times a month! He now has one job and works at L’Oreal as Warehouse Operator in Walton, KY.
Mike is a solid bass player and does about 30 concerts a year with us, as well as bass tracks on our recordings at our studio. He also plays piano and drums.
He and his wife Beverly reside in Walton, KY. They have one son and two daughters. They have 9 grandchildren and 2 on the way!
Mike is a wonderful brother and loves the Lord Jesus with all his heart. He has made the road so much easier for Christine and I and often helps Blaine drive. Some call him Hightower. He’s 6’4”.
JAKE GRIMES is one amazingly gifted man! Words can not express what this man has meant to our ministry since about the year 2000. Blaine & Christine were friends with his father and mother, Pastor Randy & Angie Grimes, since 1978. We have know Jake all his life.
Beginning as a very able drummer as a young man, he bought his first set of Rogers drums from Blaine when he was a teenager. Shortly after, one year at Youth Camp, he and Blaine were praying in the altar, and Blaine laid hands on him and prayed the his musical gifting to increase and whatever gifting were in Blaine to be imparted to Jake. God answered that prayer! He immediately started writing songs and playing piano! And what a piano player he has become!
In 2002 and 2007 he produced two awesome records for Tiffany! Since then he has toured with the Bowman band all over the U.S. A. from Michigan to Florida and Pennsylvania to Colorado as schedule would allow. He was worship leader and office administrator at his father’s church, Open Bible Christian Church, in Dayton, OH for many years, but now resides in Largo, FL where he does the same ministry at Reach Church. Although he is many miles away, we still consider him a band member and we occasionally get to still make music together when our paths cross.
With modern technology, we still have him play keyboards on our records with “Way Files.” We can record a basic track of Drums, Bass and Guitar, and email it to him in Florida in a “Way File.” He plays piano on it and emails it back!
He and his wife Amanda ministered to our children, Tiffany & Luke, in the “Core” youth group at the church in Dayton when they were teenagers.
Jake was the unofficial webmaster for our ministry website for many years. With distance between us, we now have employed a new man, who is doing an awesome job, named Bradley Viers of Dayton, OH to help us.
This man is a master pianist! Western Swing, Southern Gospel, Black Gospel, Jazz-Fusion or Country, he can do it all!
DENNIS GOECKE is a solid bass player. He has mainly played with us in Ohio and the midwest region, and is always helpful when we need him. He has toured with us as far as Mississippi.
He lives in Tipp City, OH and he and his sweet wife Carmony have two lovely daughters. He works for Ernst Concrete in Dayton, OH in Corporate Sales.
Blaine met him several years ago through Jake Grimes. Dennis for many years has been a part of Open Bible Christian Church in Dayton, OH where he serves on the advisory board and is the bass player for the worship team.
Before joining the Open Bible team, he played bass for the worship team at Living Word Church in Vandalia, OH.
Dennis is all about Jesus and he and his family serve the Lord faithfully. We are so blessed to call him friend and we so appreciate his willingness to join us in our music ministry when we need him. He has also played in our studio on some of our projects over the years.
MICHAEL FORTE