Charles Tixier is a retired petroleum engineer, who was blessed to have had a 25 year marriage to the late Kathlyn Kornberg. Their marriage grew and was strengthened by Kathy’s intuitive understanding that marriage is a journey, and like a vineyard, requires continuous work in order to reap the abundant and ever increasing fruits of a Christian marriage. He firmly believes that the family, as the basic unit of society, is under attack by the ever increasing secularization of our society and the Christian family is one of the few remaining outposts that can turn the tide of secularization.