Born in Oregon in 1969, Greg moved to Swaziland with his family in 1973. Growing up as a missionary kid (M.K.), he attended a small private school for MKs until the eighth grade. Over the next six years, he attended two public schools in South Africa, before matriculating and returning to the United States in 1988 with his family. In 1989, he moved with his family to Elkhart, Indiana, where he currently resides. He graduated from a local technical college in 1995, and has been working for a mission organization since 1989.

Besides an interest in computers, his greatest passion is upholding the truth and beauty of biblical sexuality in the midst of a world that attacks and distorts it—some background and additional reasons why.