He stands 4’6’ tall on wobbly legs; he holds a microphone with a metal hook attached to a myoelectric prosthetic arm; yet he commands the entire stage and fills the auditorium with his “UNIQUE” message: You’re a Masterpiece in Progress!”
Keynote speaker, preacher, humorist/comedian, and singer Jeff IS a Masterpiece in Progress! Born August 18, 1951, with no arms, severely deformed legs, and expectation that he would not survive, Jeff spent his early yeasts in hospitals, including Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children in Philadelphia, PA, facing orthopedic surgery, he learned to walk with a brace and was fitter with his fir prosthetic arm. At age nine, he was placed into The Good Shepherd Home for the Physically Handicapped in Allentown, PA, until he was 19.
As a young boy, Jeff learned the truth that would become the foundation of his life: “I am made to be awesome and wonderful!” (Psalm 139:14)
Jeff sees his disabilities as assets, not liabilities. He is living proof that “…the difficult we do right away, the impossible takes a little longer!” He travels the globe with a very special message: that a real handicap is “… anything that keeps me from being or becoming all that I was created to be!” “God uses the least likely person to accomplish extraordinary things in a most unusual way!”
For more than 47 years, he has performed on TV variety shows and telethons. Jeff was co-host of an entertaining and original informative television special called “The Best You Can Be… The Handicapped Hall of Fame.”