Robert Smith:  

Greetings ......and as Mr. Ward would say: Note this! Nina and I continue to reside in Portland, Tennessee. Portland is about 40 miles north of Nashville. We can see Kentucky from our back porch. I retired in 2015 following management changes starting with the corporate CEO and down two more levels to my immediate boss. The change in company culture finally took a toll on me and several other managers. I no longer had faith in upper management and they sure as heck were not interested in my opinions. In other words, work was no long "fun". Maybe it was just God's way of rooting out of the work force so I could be home with Nina. I was "honored" to be selected to head up the building team for the church we planted in January of 2015. God gave us 12+ acres of prime land at no cost. This was accomplished through some pretty miraculous business transactions. Having free land provided us the opportunity to build much sooner that expected. We completed a 14,500 sf building in January, 2017. We were already out of classroom space when we mo...Expand for more