Faye Loyd

Which famous person would play you in a movie?
Vivian Vance (Ethel on the I Love Lucy show), Bea Arthur from Maude & The Golden Girls, or Dixie Carter from Designing Women…any woman with attitude!

What is your most embarrassing moment? 
Forgetting to show up to oversee the pizza stand when I was a Band Booster.

What are your pet peeves?
rude drivers, cranky people, politicians

What would you like to ask God when you get to heaven?
Why people linger with diseases like Alzheimer’s when there is no quality of life apparent.

What super power would you like to have and why?
The ability to see past people’s defenses and see their hearts.

What are the must-have items in your refrigerator/pantry?
Yogurt, nuts, popcorn, cheese sticks

If you could time travel, where would you go and why?
England during the time of Shakespeare and the Romantic poets—I’m a romantic at heart

What are your hobbies/interests?
Reading, Sudoku, Grandchildren, Gardening—not necessarily in that order

Who first introduced you to Jesus Christ?
Friends and family in our little country church in PA

Who most influenced your walk with Christ and why?
A woman named Carolyn and a man named Jack who mentored me in my 20s and 30s, because they helped me see the world through different eyes.

Please tell us about your family.
Husband Jim, Son Cary and wife Kathy, son Mark and wife Holly. Grandchildren Nathaniel, Amanda, Allyson, Trevor, and Jodianne. Cary, Kathy, Nate and Trev live in Pennsylvania; Mark and his household of girls live here in Tulsa.

Please tell us about your call to Central.
We visited a number of times before we moved here from Arizona because Mark and his family attended here. We felt at home quickly, before we even moved. There wasn’t really any thought of attending elsewhere.

Please tell us about your upbringing.
I was an only child in a very small rural town; both parents were Christians who came from very large families. On the vast continuum of dysfunction, I suppose we were somewhere in the middle. School was my favorite thing and only real social activity. Cousins were my friends/companions. A Sunday School teacher had a lot of influence on me in my teens and was an example to me of a Christian woman.

What were your favorite activities as a child?
Paper dolls, hop scotch, jump rope, bike riding.

Do you play a musical instrument? If so, what?
I used to play an accordion, and I took piano lessons as an adult when my boys were learning to play.

If you couldn’t do what you are doing now, what would you do?
Retire!!!

What do you love the most about your job?
The people

Please share your salvation experience in how you came to Christ.
My story isn’t very exciting. I grew up in church and became aware at about age 12 that I needed the Lord in my life. In an old-fashioned revival meeting at Thanksgiving, I accepted Christ as my Savior, and was baptized the following summer.