Team Member Bios - Captain Harold Laubach and Major Deborah Greene

I currently serve as the Corps Officer in Pueblo, along with my wife Maggie. We have four children: Alex(14), Kiara(12), Natalie(11), and Doris (6). I enjoy fishing, reading, playing computer games and spending time with my family.

I have not been on a mission trip before, but during our Spring Campaigns we went to Juarez, Mexico and helped the Salvation Army unit there. I am looking forward to the ministry opportunities with young people while in South Africa.

In preparing for this trip, James 1:27 came to mind - "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."


I currently serve with my husband as the Salt Lake Basin Coordinators with specific responsibility for the Ogden ARP. My hobbies and interests include bible study, counted cross stitch - when I take the time, and attending Real Salt Lake Soccer games. My husband and I have three children, one boy and two girls. Our son Richard, age 34, lives in Hawaii; our daughter Dawn, age 32, lives in Fairbanks, Alaska with her husband Eliot; and our youngest daughter Melissa, age 27, lives in Ogden, Utah. We have one dog - Kaos - a playful Border Collie mix.

I have never been on a mission trip, except 12 years in Alaska, but have always loved working with other cultures. When I was first approached about going on this mission trip, the thought came to me about the compassion of Jesus. Matthew 9:36 says, “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd”. My desire is to have the same compassion as Jesus.

I am looking forward to sharing God's love with others of a different culture. I am excited about the opportunity to experience how people in other countries live and so empathize with them. I am looking forward to God using me to make a difference in the world.