Ty Alexander Huynh (pronounced "Whin") considers himself a typical Urban American Midwesterner after growing up in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States) and still resides there. Cooking was a large part of Ty's life since his mother is a great cook and his family opened their first restaurant in the early 1980's. His parents' restaurants are now long gone, but his family continued the tradition in food with his brother's career as a chef creating award winning food. Ty always had a creative side. He spent much time building models and painting figurines in his youth, but he most excelled in creative writing. Ty also has a scientific, logical side but it didn't inspire him into a technical career. However, his high school counselor encouraged him to apply at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology because of his good grades. The next year he went to the U of M Institute of Technology with a partial scholarship from the Alan Page Foundation. At university, Ty focused on Architecture, Computer Science, Psychology, and Creative Writing. Afterwards, he had a typical career in web development and freelanced in the creative arts. In 2008, though, his life took a dramatic turn as unusual events got him to look closer at the spiritual side of the world. He did not grow up as a Christian or was taught in any spiritual belief system at all, but he accepted there was more to the world than could be explained by science. Late in 2008, amazing signs and revelations got Ty to believe in Christianity. Despite needing financial security, he was inspired to leave his career in Internet development to start a new life in ministry, writing, and motorcycle racing. By the end of 2009, he published his first book, 3rd Compass: Navigating Reality and the Last Days. It was a Christian memoir and scientific discussion about how we cannot understand the world by looking on the surface alone. In the book, he shared the amazing experiences and other testimonies that led him and others to believe in Christ. Since then Ty became very active as a Christian minister and was ordained in 2015. He also became certified as an End of Life Specialist in 2016 to minister to hospice patients, and now is an Elder Minister and Teacher of Mashiach Yeshua (Christ Jesus). It was during his new life as a Christian that music and singing became very important to him. Through making music, he discovered it to be the language of the soul, which conveys emotion much better than words alone. Before this time, Ty had only dabbled in music during childhood and high school through general music classes, a keyboard and organ at home, and music software on his computer. However, he always found it impossible to read sheet music and still cannot read it. And much like some abstract concepts in science and math, music theory just confounds him; a problem Ty calls having musical dyslexia. These difficulties, as well as a lack of encouragement and inspiration kept him from going further in music earlier in life. But in a new Christian life, Ty found much inspiration and drive to learn song and music seriously. This new strength with Christ helped him work through the many struggles of life. Ty picked up a cheap acoustic guitar in 2012 and started strumming and singing. It was a struggle to learn, which gave him flashbacks to almost failing music class in high school, and sheet music continued to look like a jumbled mess of symbols. But like Elvis and jazz great, Erroll Louis Garner, who also couldn't read music, Ty's problems didn't stop him from trying to make good music. Now music, especially traditional Irish Celtic music, is a large part of his life. Not long after he became a Christian, Ty fell in love with Irish culture and started learning Irish Gaelic. He often uses Irish and Celtic song and language in his creative pursuits. His first novel, Aching Prosperity, features a lot of Irish culture and language in its metaphorical Ireland. Making music has many difficulties for Ty, but they were compounded further by respiratory problems that started in 2012 and later developed into asthma in 2016, so Ty often struggles to sing. Despite this, Ty was surprised in 2013 that his amateur recording of his original song, "My Heart Is In Dublin" won Best Ballad in a monthly music contest. The blessing inspired him to do more with music. After some years with the acoustic electric guitar, Ty added other instruments to convey the melodies of his spirit. His instruments now also include the Irish bodhrán hand drum, mandolin, and piano. Aside from ministry, writing and music, riding and customizing street bikes used to be a favorite past-time for Ty. He toured a lot of back country roads in the United States and Canada for nearly two decades and led an official Triumph Motorcycles rider's group for five years. Ty even earned a road-racing certification and raced for three years at Brainerd International Raceway. Given Ty's extensive background in many fields, he is a minister and writer who understands everyone and writes for everyone. It helps him share experiences that relate to people of all types, no matter where you come from or what your level of knowledge is. Some might say that being a Jack Of All Trades is a Master Of Nothing, but in reality, comprehensive experience in wide-ranging areas let's you easier understand how much more there is to the world and our place in it. If you're limited to only one or two ways of seeing things, you are far less likely to understand or accept the miraculous things that are hidden just under the surface.