taylor has been involved with hispanic ministry from the start of his career. his first assignment was to sacred heart parish, oklahoma city, and within a month of ordination he had begun to celebrate mass in spanish twice a month in clinton and hinton, oklahoma. in 1982 he was transferred to western oklahoma, where he lived at queen of all saints mission in sayre until 1986 and served the hispanic population in a five-county area, including ongoing ministry in clinton and hinton.