Melissa Kimbrough:  

After graduating from P'ville, I moved to Oklahoma to go to college at Southwestern OK State University. I graduated there in '92 with a BS in Business Mgmt. I started working for a local restaurant, Pioneer Pies. I worked there for about 3 yrs. Unbeknownst to me, I hired the man I was going to marry as a waiter there. He was in the military and needed extra money to pay off some bills. I had always told my friends that I never wanted to get married or have kids. (Never say never!) We got married in 1995, and at that time I was in the process of trying to get in to Physical Therapy school at OU. I had decided that was my "true calling". So I was working part time and taking the prerequisites to get in. I applied in 1997, but didn't make the final cut. Disappointed, we decided to begin our family. We had our first child, Trent, in 1998. At that point, Jim's job at Tinker AFB was phased out, and he got a transfer to Keesler AFB, in Biloxi, MS. We had two more sons while we were stationed at Keesler, Josh in 2000 and Levi in 2003. We were there from 1998 to 2003, when Jim retired from the Air Force. We moved at the right time, Hurricane Ivan hit the next summer, and Katrina was the following year. We went back to see what was left after Katrina, not much more than trash. After Jim retired, we moved back to Oklahoma City, and began working for the Vineyard church. We had maintained contact with our pastors from that church, Charles and Dianna Bello. Jim was the Associate pastor and I was the church secretary....Expand for more