ALLAN THAMES

Allan was born at Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in a family conclave on Enon Road in College Park, Georgia where his parents still live. The area is known as Cliftondale. Allan went to Cliftondale Elementary School, Westwood High School, Berry College and Georgia State University where he was an English major. He has worked at Rayloc, a division of Fortune 500 company (and Atlanta headquartered) Genuine Parts Company for thirty years as the Catalog Manager, and most recently as the Director of Product Information, a job that involves researching and publishing parts catalogs. Over his career, Allan has published hundreds of parts catalogs and continues to do so both on paper and now electronically.

In 1992, Allan was ordained into the ministry at Union Christian Church where he ministered for ten years while holding down the full-time job at Rayloc. For the past twenty five years, Allan, his wife of thirty years, Celia, and their children, have spent a week of vacation at Woodland Christian Camp near Carrollton as counselors, team leaders, and cabin parents for 10, 11 and 12 year olds. Once a week, Allan helps a friend take food to the poor and homeless in Douglasville, some who live in the woods. Allan has been published in “The Christian Standard” and has had two op-ed pieces printed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Currently, Allan is writing a daily blog for Silver Lake Ministries. After a life time of keeping private diaries and travel logs, Allan is excited about publishing his first work of fiction. A nostalgic look at a quieter place and time, The Boys of Enon Road connects its readers to their own childhoods. Allan’s other unpublished works include Destiny, Destiny, Too, Elizabeth and George, Cyn and The Last Sad Hour. In the works are Ghost Pennant and a sequel to The Boys of Enon titled The Boys of Enon Road Fail in Love.

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