AIRCO Secretary Corey Gray
I am the father of four children; two eight-year-old girls & twelve and sixteen year old sons. Husband of one, 12 years (THANK GOD, couldn’t deal with two of them) as you can tell I also like a little humor. My wife Monika & I are the youth ministers, event coordinators, fund-raisers, etc… for our church here in Louisville, KY. Monika & I are very involved in our church and with the Highview Athletics Organization. Monika is probably going to coach girls’ softball this season and I will continue to build the character of young men during the fall football season. We have been coaching for the past three years and are always involved in the lives of young people in some way. I’m still in search of the fountain of youth or hoping a little youth from the kids will wear off on me. LOL!! We have owned an inflatable boxing ring and an old metal dunk tank for the past four years and played with the idea of starting a moonwalk rental business. We rented out our equipment to family, friends, and churches that knew we owned it. We never advertised or fooled with any of the other necessities of a real rental business. I guess what really stopped us, was the fear of failure and the lack of capitol to get started legitimately. This past fall, we where in the process of organizing our church’s fall festival and during preperations we had a bad experience with a local rental place (now a competitor). This is how We Deliver Fun Inflatables was born, established in late October of 2007. We are starting out with five bouncers, a slide, an obstacle course, the usual concessions, games, and a lot of debt! It is funny how anger will make you over-come fear. Our main focus since October until now has been on our marketing efforts, which includes: websites, business cards, over 1000 handwritten postcards to every school, church, and daycare with in a fifty-mile radius of Louisville. We are the type people that when we decide to jump into something, we go headfirst! Sink or swim is probably not a good motto to live by, but so far it has worked for us. We thank God for our healthy children and good paying jobs that our supporting our endeavor up until the spring season hits and then I expect a very busy 8 months or so. The same motto got me involved here at AIRCO. I have really made some good friends and learned a lot since joining this organization. When Greg asked for volunteers, I could not help but to jump in and hope I could help someone else the way that AIRCO has helped us. I will do my very best to serve the AIRCO Board with the highest integrity. One thing I do refuse to do is shave my legs- Blake!Corey Gray