Judd Patton and his wife Jeanne began attending the Church of God in 1973 after a year of listening to Herbert Armstrong on the World Tomorrow radio broadcast. In their first ministerial visit, they counseled with John Elliott, who was the ministerial trainee on that visit! Since 1982 the Pattons have been serving in the Omaha, Nebraska church. They have three children -Janell, Jared and Jonathan and eight grandchildren.