After many years with Youth For Christ and as a youth minister, Maury led teams of students from his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee to places like the Dominican Republic, and Central America and saw the powerful change in their lives as a result to the trips. In 1991 Maury founded
Mission Discovery to serve the needs of the poor in Mexico. Maury and his wife Ann make their home in Gallatin, TN and have two children, Rachelle and Benjamin and three grand children, Bailey, Hayden and Reese.