Who is Chuck Payne?
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Hi! My name is Chuck Payne and I'd like to welcome you to my website to learn something about me and how I may be able to help you.
First a little about myself. In 1994, I met my wife Diana at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, in Ohio. We were married in 1995 and have been living happily ever after, ever since. We have five amazing granddaughters. The youngest three spend a lot of time at our house in Toledo, Ohio. They are looking over my shoulder as I write!
MY PERSONAL STORY At one time I just wanted to be a cowboy:
I come from a large Catholic family. My Dad was in the US Army. When I was nine, we moved to Bavaria in Germany for three years. This was a mind broadening experience for me. Back in the States, I started working at the age of twelve, delivering newspapers, and soon discovered that this was not the job for me! Too much work for $4 a week. So I took up shining shoes for soldiers on the Army Base and within two years I was making $25 a night. Pretty good money in those days (1955). In 1956, I left home for good. I entered the high school seminary at the University of Notre Dame and seven years later had a BA in Philosophy. In the summers, we spent our time at Land O' Lakes Wisconsin where I learned to sail and even taught sailing back at Notre Dame. I never missed a home football game during that time which were not the best years for Notre Dame football. I remember helping Johnny Huarte with a summer Statistics course in 1963. The next year he won the Heisman Trophy! In 1964, I entered the US Air Force Officer Training School in Austin, Texas. After a year as a Second Lieutenant in Biloxi, Mississippi, studying electronics, I was stationed in Japan for two years, which gave me insights into other ways of seeing things. I then ended up at Travis AFB in California. I left the Air Force as a captain in 1968 to enter the UC Berkeley, School of Optometry. After graduation, before partnering with an older Optometrist who turned out to be a great mentor, I realized that I would probably never have another opportunity like this. So I took six months off and literally travelled around the world, visiting 26 countries, including the Holy Land, buying a German car and driving it 6000 miles around Europe, including Bayreuth, the little city where we had lived in Germany. I spent the next twenty years as a Doctor of Optometry in northern California. I liked being my own boss. And I loved California. The skiing and hiking were fantastic in the mountains, and on the other hand, the ocean was never far away either. (During those years, I did more than one Rotary program with the slides from that journey around the world.) On January 18, 1974, I had a profound religious experience. I later spent almost a year in a Trappist Monastery. In 1982, I took two months off from working as an Optometrist and travelled to Europe visiting major Marian Shrines like Fatima, Lourdes and the tomb of Bernadette in Never, France, where her incorrupt body lies in a glass coffin (see picture: Bernadette). At 140 Rue du Lubac in Paris I saw St. Catherine Labore's incorrupt body. I was also able to travel to Rome and shake hands with Pope John Paul II! Most of my time, however, I spent in a small village in northern Spain, San Sebastian de Garabandal, where the Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have visited four teenage girls from 1960 to 1964, and giving the world some major prophecies. If you would like more inforamtion on that see: Garabandal. I then started my own private practice in Roseville, California, which was so sucessful that I am still getting a monthly income from selling it in 1992. In 1997, I received my Masters Degree in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. I was a Director of Religious Education first in Florida for two years, then in Toledo, Ohio, until July, 2008. I now do volunteer work. People ask me why I made the switch from Optometry to such a low paying religious job and I just tell them that I helped people see for twenty years! If you're interested in a few things I've written on the subject, click here: Religion. BUSINESS VENTURES In 2001, I started my own business on the side: Natural Choice Toledo. I own and operate several vending machines, which takes less than one work day/week. I have built this business around excellent service. I am now in the process of turning it over to my step daughter and her husband, the parents of those grandkids mentioned above. In 2006, I started another business based on connecting people who want to sell real estate notes with people who want to buy them. It is called Emmanuel Cash Flow Service (click here if you have a note to sell). I'm really enjoying working with folks in this business. The best part about it is that you are in a position to help people who need cash now for whatever reason: to avoid foreclosure, to buy a new house, to finance college, etc. It's a win-win deal. The person selling their note gets the cash they need when they need it. The buyer of the note gets a good investment. Best wishes for your success, now and forever. Chuck Payne 1-419-474-2668
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Diana and I on our
Honeymoon in Maine. 