When you sit down to visit with Anita Kyle, you can’t help but catch her zest for life and enthusiasm for helping others. As a teenager, she placed herself in positions that would allow her to support those in need. Volunteering as a candy striper at local hospitals and serving at the YMCA, were just a few of the ways she found to extend her caring spirit to others. In fact, when you look at the events of her life, you can see exactly how God brought her to the place she is today, allowing her to use her strengths to make an impact on countless lives.

For Dr. Allen Sprinkle, his life as a dentist has been a journey that has led him down varied paths filled with experience and growth. Born in North Carolina, Dr. Sprinkle moved to Texas with his family at just seven years old. A graduate of Baylor College of Dentistry in 1971, Dr. Sprinkle started out on a traditional path operating a successful practice in Dallas. Over time, he and his wife became ready to start their family and felt that moving out of the big city would be best so the Dallas practice was sold and a smaller practice in Kilgore, Texas was purchased.

Very often it’s the accidents in life that lead us to our highest calling. For Lee Gerdes, it was an unfortunate turn of events that would alter his life and push him to search for answers, not only for himself but for others as well.