Brenda and I were both born in South Arkansas. I attended El Dorado High and Brenda attended Junction City High School. We did not know each other until we both worked at ConAgra, Inc, who had a Corporate office and an integrated poultry operation in El Dorado. We married in 1982. In 1988 we were transferred to ConAgra Europe, where I worked with mergers and acquisitions. During this time, we lived in Nice, France, Brussels, Belgium (Headquarters) and Manchester, England. From there we moved to Puerto Rico to work with Toricos de Puerto Rico, an integrated poultry operation. It was here our lives would forever change. 

It was here that Brenda and I decided to leave the corporate world and for me to pursue a vocation as a pastor. We returned to the States and settled in Hot Springs and I began to work for Christian Ministries Church (the pastor, Tim Brooks, was my roommate in college) while I went to seminary to become a priest in the Charismatic Episcopal Church (an Anglo-Catholic communion). I was ordained in 1997 and began a mission church in Hot Springs named St Cyprian (my patron Saint). By this time Brenda, I, and the two boys had been drawn by the irresistible pull of the Catholic Church and in 2000, I resigned my priesthood and became a member of St John the Baptist in Hot Springs. Three years later we learned that it was possible to become a Catholic Priest and we began the process that would take ten more years (including another four years of seminary) to complete. I was ordained on August 3rd of 2013 and became the pastor of St Mary's and St Patrick's in North Little Rock. I would then become pastor of S Mary's in Hot Springs (5 yrs) and St John's (6 yrs) before being transferred to Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

During my seminary years, Brenda completed her teaching degree and taught at St Lukes Episcopal School for several years and then accepted her current position of 2nd Grade at St John's School where she is continues to teach. 

Currently we have two sons, George Greggory and Eric Wayne. Gregg and his wife Angel (Taiwanese) have two children, Audrey 6 and David 4. They currently live in Columbus, OH. Eric and his wife Minako (Japanese) have one daughter, Alice, who is 4. They currently live in Ichikawa, Ciba, Japan.