Business and Professional Men & Women's Luncheon

Corpus Christi Christian Business Association

Invites You
To Meet and Hear

GREG HOOD

At a Business and Professional
Men & Women's Luncheon
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Ortiz Center
402 Harbor Dr.
Corpus Christi, Tx.

Greg Hood is a native North Carolinian, but a naturalized Texan, who still lives in Corpus Christi after "settling land" more than thirty years ago.

Greg's earliest memories of life in Texas were forged on the ranges west of Fort Worth where he tried to break, and did nearly break, a herd of Army helicopters as a military student pilot. After successfully mastering the art of hovering the ornery critters, he moved up, at age 23, to ride the Army's thoroughbred Huey helicopter into combat in Vietnam.

While in Vietnam, he never used a single principle of economics he learned in the Hill Country of North Carolina where he earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Appalachian State University in 1969. He did, however, remember the prayers of his devout mother and minister father, and in every "hot" LZ, he was glad he had repented of his wayward ways as the notorious preacher's kid.

With Vietnam behind him, Greg Hood experienced what would have been a cowboy's dream come true: he was reassigned to his namesake, Fort Hood, located on the central plains of Texas and home to the Air Cavalry. The dream continued to unfold when he met a girl from West Virginia, Sarah Casey, and they got hitched 35 years and 5 kids ago.

Greg left the life of herding helicopters back in the seventies and took up more respectable work. It is said that it was the prayers of his Momma and preacher Daddy that roped him into herding businessmen for the good Lord. Greg was instrumental in starting and leading a group, back in 1982, that pointed men to something beyond obsessions with digging for gold, building bigger herds and expanding their land holdings. The group was called Christian Business Men's Committee (CBMC), and they rode the range looking for "lost doggies" for nearly 25 years.

Greg's inspirational testimony of how God faithfully works in one's personal & professional life could be the good news that will change the heart of some friend or associate you invite to the luncheon.

(Corpus Christi Christian Business Association)

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