Richard Mayes is a North Carolina native, married, with three adult children, and a member of The Church of the Good Shepherd since 1996. Moving his family to one of his wife’s family homes in Durham in 1994, he settled into life in the county near a thriving city and continued working in manufacturing, commuting daily to Virginia. After retiring from product development, he offered to fill in the gap for a short time as a handyman while the church searched for a new Facility Manager. That was in June 2013 and today you may find him fixing a toilet, welding a cart, meeting with administrators, or working with contractors.