Chuck grew up in the small west Tennessee town of Friendship, where he knew and was known by everyone within a radius of five miles. He became a Christian at the age of nine years old. His parents were Christians and his father served as an elder at the Friendship Church of Christ.
He graduated from the University of Tennessee Junior College which is now known as the University of Tennessee at Martin with an Associates Degree in Medical Science (Pre-Med). He spent the next 22 years as a Naval Pilot, serving 2 years in Vietnam as a combat reconnaissance pilot. While in the Navy, he earned a BA degree in Political Science and International Relations at Naval Bestgraduate School, Monterey, California, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Rollins College.
While in the Navy, he had many opportunities to serve God at state-side and foreign locations in Italy, Africa and Thailand . He has baptized converts in places like bathtubs and the Indian Ocean off the coast of Vietnam . He had frequent visits to Thailand and worked with missionaries there for two years while station on the Island of Guam and in Vietnam.
Jerry Frederick Dickinson was born in 1940 in Sumiton , Alabama to James and Beatrice Dickinson. While he and his parents lived in several locations, most of his growing up years were spent in the Birmingham area. He graduated from Auburn University in 1963 with a degree in Accounting.
Anthony J. "Tony" Washington grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and is the oldest of eight children. He became a Christian at the age of 18. He was baptized on August 02, 1969 and attended the Union Heights Church of Christ.
Ulysses (UL) Campbell is a native Floridian residing in Orlando most of his life. He attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida with a major in mathematics education. He met his wife Rhonda while attending FSU.
Born to Laura, and Gerald Liddick in Harrisburg Penna, in 1940, I grew up in a small country town called Duncannon Pa. I was raised in the methodist church until meeting my wife to be Bettye Proffitt.