Jaime was born in Muncie, Indiana, USA, and grew up in Monteria, Colombia. He graduated from high school in 1993, then completed a doctor of dental surgery degree and later specialized in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Jaime has been in the Church since 1990 and he married Lyda in 2003. Jaime, Lyda and their 3 kids, Sara, Isaac, and Danna have served the church in Colombia, USA, and Puerto Rico. After two decades of traveling, the Castro’s settled in the Birmingham, Alabama area in the summer of 2023 where Jaime serves as Assistant Professor in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department and the Director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Undergraduate Clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Lyda enjoys arts and crafts; Jaime enjoys reading books and playing with his 3 children.