Bruce and Sammy Frye have been working together for several years trying to spread the gospel and word of God, but the two brothers faced a lot of bumps along the way.
The release of their new CD, details some of the problems the two had and focuses on the journey the two now make together.
Their CD is called “Brothers Twice.” Brothers by blood and now brothers by Christ, is how Sammy came up with the name for the album.
Sammy Frye did not always want to be a youth pastor. The oldest of three brothers, he had a desire to go to Hollywood or New York City to pursue a career in acting.
Sammy was selling books door-to-door in Sweetwater, Texas, when a man asked him, “If you were to die today, would you go to heaven or hell?”
“I didn’t have an answer,” Sammy says. “So I just said ‘I don’t know.’”
The man continued to tell Sammy the gospel and told him he needed to be “born again.”
“I was really uncomfortable,” Sammy says. “But then I realized the relationship with God and Jesus Christ that he was talking about was something I didn’t have.”
Later that summer Sammy says he let Christ in and was born again.
Years later he found himself married with children and began getting involved with his church. He has now been a youth pastor at Yates-Thagard Baptist Church for 11 years.
At the same time Sammy was settling into his new life, brother Bruce was out on the road playing country music across the country.
Sammy prayed for his brother not to become a star, a fact not known to Bruce until years later.
“I didn’t want the world to get its hooks in him before he could turn away,” Sammy says.
Bruce says he had gone to church when he was younger, but was also missing out on that relationship Sammy had talked about.
“I didn’t know what I wanted and that caused a lot of problems in my life,” Bruce says. “So I started to stop enjoying things I had been doing for years.”
Bruce had always wanted to be a star, playing music from coast-to-coast, so when he realized he wasn’t being fulfilled by just that, he turned to the Bible.
“I asked myself, if I’m not supposed to be a star, what am I doing?” Bruce says.
One night in his Nashville, Tenn,. apartment, Bruce says he got on his knees and asked God for forgiveness.
“Ever since that day, he changed my life,” Bruce says.
From that day on Bruce started to travel and spread the word and his story to others.
With the help of Faith Music Missions in Evansville, Ind., and local congregation members, the two brothers were able to record their CD.
Bruce now travels the country appearing at different churches and sharing his story and songs with the congregations. Sammy goes with him when he can.
“Brothers Twice” includes 10 tracks written by the brothers, with help from their friends on two of the songs.
“When we look at our lives and look at our Lord, he gave us the same home, the ability to write and sing, saved us, and gave us the desire to make a CD,” Sammy says. “He’s changed our lives.”
Eren Tataragasi is a summer intern with The Pilot. She is a student at the University of North Carolina.
