Larry Bassett:  

From growing years in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, through initial college years at Hendrix and HSTC, the USMC on all three coasts, family, friends, teachers, church and scouting provided a great foundation for all the years that have followed. They've been great ones! Of course there have been some tough times, but who among us who've been blessed with an abundance of years couldn't say that? Seven plus years in the Los Angeles area with great good mentors and colleagues in business and civic activity are fondly remembered and very important as the birthplace of my first two children. Career change took me back across the country to Atlanta (another childs birthplace,)then Knoxville and Little Rock (another child born,)before landing in the Dallas area... and my final two children's birthplace. Dallas became my "second home" in 1976, even though I returned to Atlanta briefly for more "school" and work. I've lived in communities within an hour's drive from the Metroplex for the greater part of the time since first arriving in Dallas. The 1980's found me ending a struggle regarding a calling to full time ministry and returning to the classroom, continuing work, and enjoying the role of "soccer dad." Yep! guys can multi-task, too. After two years ministry in Kansas (playing a role in the initial recovery of neighboring Greensburg from its awesomely devastating tornado in 2007) a brief transition time back in Texas preceeded a move to Hydro, Oklahoma as Pastor of that community's First United Met...Expand for more