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Authors

  • Ruth Anderson

    “Reno” Ruth Anderson is a Canadian author of Bible studies and women’s adventure novels (partly because she has had a few of her own). She’s the wife of a long-distance motorcyclist called The Faster Pastor (who is Lead Pastor at a smallish church in western Canada), and the mother of two adult children (and 7 grandkiddos), but she’s also been a Chaplain, a Photo-journalist, an Advertising Editor, a Realtor, and an International Food Relief Manager – as well as having started a girls’ high school in Malawi. Reno loves to travel, has visited over 40 countries, and lived in the USA, Canada, and Zambia. She is one of Jesus' Fierce Everyday Warriors.

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  • Marcy Ardis

    Marcy Ardis and her husband Gord live in the country near Chatham, Ontario. They met while attending Redeemer College in Ancaster, Ontario.
    After they got married, Marcy and Gord began to attend Louisville Baptist Church together as a family as this had been Marcy’s home church for several years. Not long after that, the minister at Louisville Baptist Church was getting ready to retire and he asked Gord to “shepherd his flock” when he retired. Gord has been the pastor at Louisville for nine years and he has also pastored at North Dresden Baptist Church for four and a half years. In addition, he volunteers on the executive of the Western Association
    of Baptist Churches.
    Marcy and Gord homeschool their daughter, teaching her that every day offers new learning opportunities. Marcy teaches at a high school in a nearby community. When she has free time she enjoys going for walks with her family, doing genealogical research, reading historical novels and local
    history books, learning about local architecture and exploring nearby provincial parks.

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  • Gloria Bagley

    Gloria comes from a long line of individuals serving in pastoral ministry. Gloria and her husband, Bill, are both graduates of the Grand Rapids School of the Bible and Music. They have four children and are happy grandparents! Their service in pastoral ministry has spanned 40 years and includes a range of experiences. They have served at 100-year-old churches in the Midwest, pastored a mission church in Utah, taught at the Frontier School of the Bible in Wyoming, planted a church in Idaho, and are now currently planting a church in Garden City, Utah. Gloria has a desire to connect younger pastors’ wives with older pastors’ wives as they share with each other the goodness of God in serving in small-town and rural ministry.

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  • Amber Beery

    Amber is a daughter of God – redeemed, loved and called to bring God glory. She and her husband, Matt, met at Moody Bible Institute and have served at several churches/ministries in Florida and Michigan, including a small-town church in Stanton, MI. They have three children, one of whom has special needs, and currently serve at a church in mid-Michigan where Matt is an associate pastor. Having grown up on a farm in Kansas, Amber is a fan of wide open spaces and thunderstorms. She’s also rather fond of photography, books, writing, and speaking. (And coffee and ice cream!)

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  • Meloday Boyle

    Mel is serving alongside her husband who is currently Interim Pastor at Village Church since June 2019. In the past, they planted 2 churches and also served with the EFCA in the Dakotas. Mike was a professor of Pastoral Studies at Moody Bible Institute for 11 years. Mel has a BA in Elementary Education from the University of North Dakota. She enjoys encouraging pastors' wives and being involved in women’s ministry and Bible studies. She also enjoys time with her 8 grandchildren!

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  • Denna and her husband, Kurt moved to central Illinois in July of 2023 to serve in the home office of Rural Home Missionary Association. They have a rural church-planting vision to see 40 unreached places reached with the Gospel of Jesus in the next 10 years, called the Back 40 Unreached Initiative. Kurt and Denna have five children with three still living at home where there never seems to be a dull moment. They previously served for 20 years as church planters in the Sandhills Region of Nebraska. Denna has a music degree from Moody Bible Institute and teaches music lessons out of their home. Her favorite Bible character is Priscilla and she enjoys serving alongside her 'Aquila.' She is the co-founder, former Director and current Board of Reference member for the Flowers ministry.

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  • Sarah Chadbourn

    Sarah and her husband, Jonathan, are from third-generational ministry families. Their ministry experiences began in France as church planters. They then moved to a small Illinois town to help strengthen and experience the God-guided growth of a struggling church. Sarah’s husband is the Pastor of Education at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Groveland, Illinois, where she enjoys the busy life of a pastor’s wife. Sarah earned a degree in Nutritional Counseling from Calvary Bible College where she and Jonathan met. She enjoys writing, counseling, and speaking God’s truth to women of all ages. In her free time she enjoys playing piano, jogging, reading out-loud to her five children (ages 5-12), and decorating her house.

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  • Jennifer Ebenhack

    Jennifer Ebenhack and her husband Jarod served for eight years as missionaries in the country of Haiti and now reside in Santa Clarita, California. Their family of six children includes three adopted from Haiti, two born to them in Haiti, and one foster baby that they are praying will become a permanent Ebenhack as well.
    In a Sun-Scorched Land is Jennifer’s memoir of their harrowing and miraculous ministry and adoption process in Haiti, available as a paperback or ebook on Amazon. Take Courage: Choosing faith on my journey of fear, Jennifer’s ebook on panic and anxiety is also available on Amazon.

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  • Gloria Emmons has been a pastor's kid since her dad went to Moody Bible Institute to study for the ministry when she was just starting elementary school. She met and married her husband Norm in a small country church in Michigan where her dad pastored while she was a student at Moody herself. A few decades and thousands of loads of laundry later her daughter Wendy McCready began studying at Moody, as well. Gloria still lives in Michigan and is a homemaker, women's Bible study teacher, pianist and mom and grandma extraordinaire.

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  • My passion is to help moms first love Jesus and then teach them to serve Him by ministering to their families. I want to help you make a generational difference for an eternal perspective. Together with my husband, I have been busy raising seven kids to love Jesus and to serve Him. I have been serving in ministry alongside my husband, who is a pastor, for 17 years. We currently serve in a rural church in Upper Michigan. You can stay connected with me at: https://www.allnaturaljoy.com/

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  • Jayne Gautreau

    Jayne currently lives in Sutherlin, Oregon with her husband Sabin and three sons. Jayne grew up in Northern Ireland, but met her husband at Moody Bible institute when she was there for a year as an exchange student from Belfast Bible College. Her husband has served as a pastor in church pastoral ministry for over ten years but currently works as a hospice/hospital chaplain for a local hospital. Jayne has a passion to support and encourage moms who have children with special needs since this is also part of her journey. Jayne currently home-schools her youngest and supports her older two boys in distance learning. She also helps with kids ministry in their local church. She is grateful to live close to the Oregon coast as that is her favorite way to rest and restore.

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  • Lynnette has retired from RHMA Headquarters in Morton, Illinois where she served as the Director of Operations for 20 years. She has attended the same small-town church for most of her life and is finding extra time in her retirement to help with Children's Ministry, taking a theology class, and attending the Ladies' Bible Study during the day. She hopes to always be an encouragement to her pastor's wife.
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  • Nancy Grace

    Nancy and her husband Rick have been in ministry for more than fifty years. They’ve been in many roles, from being youth pastor, associate pastor, solo pastor and lead pastor of multi-staffed churches. They have also served in marriage ministry for twenty years, which strengthened them as a couple. They’ve experienced the beautiful highs of ministry but also the devastating lows. God has been faithful in every season. They have served churches in Illinois, Kansas, and Arkansas. They now live in Texas to be closer to grandchildren.

    Nancy is an author, speaker, and ministry wife coach. She loves teaching from the Word and speaking to women’s groups about our identity in Christ.

    For relaxation, she enjoys playing worship music on piano, walking or hiking in the outdoors, and getting hugs from grandchildren. Her website is www.nancykaygrace.com.

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  • Chelsea Hall

    Chelsea is a pastor’s wife in Charlottesville, Virginia. She and her husband, Benji, have been in ministry for over 12 years together starting out as youth pastors in 2009 then her husband transitioned to a lead pastor role in 2016. He is now the Associate Pastor of Students and Families at First Baptist Church Park Street. They have four children – Silas (9), Selah (7), Esther (3), and Ellie (1). Chelsea is homeschooling their older two kids for the sixth year while wrangling toddlers, writing, and helping her husband with youth ministry!

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  • Bethany has served as a missionary in Puerto Rico, as a bi-vocational youth/associate pastor’s wife in Indiana, and now as a lead pastor’s wife in rural Leaf River, Illinois. While assisting her husband in youth ministry, she was also on staff at several churches as a children’s ministry director. Beth and Billy have two “kids” in college, Collin and Isabel, and are excited and nervous to move into the empty-nest stage of their lives. Beth is highly competitive during family game nights and loves reading (especially mysteries), doing various crafts, baking, gardening, and exploring antique/thrift stores for hidden treasures. Since seeing the value of Biblical counseling in her own life and ministry, Beth is adding to her Secondary Education - English degree with a Master of Biblical Counseling through Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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  • Tobi and her husband, Paul, met at Moody Bible Institute and have been serving in churches together since then. Along with their three amazing boys, they currently serve at a church in the middle of Illinois farmland where Paul is the senior pastor. Tobi has a passion for teaching the Word of God, especially to children, and helps with both the children's and women's ministries of her church. She loves reading, DIY projects, coffee, ice cream, and spontaneous dance parties with her boys.

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  • Sue Hoijer

    Sue is originally from Minnesota but has lived in Michigan's Upper Peninsula since she was 16. A P.K., she is also a descendant of a German-speaking circuit-riding pastor and a Norwegian-speaking pastor of churches in Minnesota, and a great-granddaughter of a woman who helped with Evangelist Billy Sunday’s campaigns. After graduating from Bob Jones University, Sue married a carpenter she’d gotten to know during church workdays on a building addition. In 1992, she and her husband were part of a church plant in Marinette, Wisconsin, and they have served in various ministries at that church since then. Sue plays the piano at the church, teaches a Sunday School class for junior girls, and teaches math classes at the church's homeschool co-op. She enjoys freelance editing, especially when the projects are ministry-related; walking on country roads with her husband, John, and their three daughters; reading; and lilacs and peonies.

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  • Kate lives in rural NW Ohio with her husband Daniel, three children and several cats, which is necessary to keep the mice population in check. God has kept them on the move ministering wherever He has led them, from inner city Minneapolis, eastern Ohio, the deep south in the U.S., to their current position. Daniel has served as an Assistant Pastor for 14 years, while just recently celebrating 4 years as a Senior Pastor. Kate is passionate in teaching her three children, the ladies at the church, and those who attend her ASL classes. She enjoys writing to her heart’s content with a cup of tea, and dark chocolate.

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  • Jen Hulbert lives in Flagstaff, Arizona with her husband and favorite coffee date, Aaron. They serve together at Calvary Bible Church, where Aaron is the lead pastor. She homeschools her four kids and loves sharing the beauty of God’s creation with them by hiking the trails of the northern Arizona forest. Jen met Jesus at a young age, and as she gets to know Him better, discovers more of who she was intended to be. Creating the perfect playlist, well-timed puns, and all forms of organizing and categorizing are a few of her favorite things.

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  • Kristen Joy is a certified Mental Health & Biblical Life Coach passionately serving wounded pastors’ wives who have experienced personal or ministry-related traumas and/or battle chronic life stressors. As a pastor’s kid and pastor’s wife herself, Kristen experienced several acute traumatic experiences as well as church trauma. Through her healing journey, God has restored her joy and called her to use her experiences and trauma-informed education to serve others who are walking on a similar path. Learning to live from a place of rest, Kristen is enjoying working toward becoming a trauma therapist through her master’s program, connecting with God, and finding any quiet space she can in her busy household of 8.

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  • Emily Jezowski

    Emily is the joyful wife of Joshua and mother to five creative children. She has served with her husband in various ways – including jail ministry, and teen and children’s ministries – prior to the “official” pastorate. Although Josh trained to be a pastor, the Lord kept this door closed for many years. After serving as associate pastor at Twin City Baptist Church in Marinette, Wisconsin, the Lord called them to Lakeshore Baptist Church in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, where Josh is senior pastor. Emily is passionate about knowing Christ deeply through His Word, and loves discipling other women to do the same. She is a writer who enjoys good books, tea, and snowy days by the fire. See more of Emily's writings at emilyjezowski@substack.com.

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  • Sarah has been a pastor's wife in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in Utah County, the center of Mormonism. She can't think of two more opposite places in the US, but each has been a special joy. She has 5 children and spends most of her time homeschooling and ministering alongside her husband at Fellowship Bible Church. Sarah loves the great outdoors and feeding people and agrees with C.S. Lewis that, "you can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

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  • Cara and her husband, Adam, ministered in a small-town church for 14 years before transitioning to the Rural Home Missionary Association Staff where Adam is the Executive Director. The town they live in is small, but sadly not small enough that she can raise chickens. However, she is raising three plucky kids and two cats. Since being saved as a teenager, Cara has been involved with the local church, using her passion for women and intergenerational ministry in church planting and church strengthening and she teaches middle school English.

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  • Courtney Lee

    Courtney Lee (@courtneylee2020) is a long time follower of Jesus and energetic storyteller of His Word. She writes, speaks, and podcasts looking for story in the ordinary. She is one half of the speaking team for the Legacy Retreat, a five session exploration of the five women listed in the genealogy of Jesus; she is the host of Podcast Parables (@podcast_parables) telling first person narratives from characters of the Bible; and she is the author of Court's Cuts (courtneylee.substack.com), a weekly newsletter full of fun and encouragement. Beyond all of that, her first, and most important, ministry is to her husband of 15 years, Jared, and being a mom to KK (10) and Lincoln (8), weaving adventure into their day to day whenever possible!

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  • Jen Leman

    Jen Leman worships at Faith Evangelical Free Church in Metamora, IL where her husband is the solo pastor. She focuses on discipling women in the church and community and serves on the worship team and her local school board. She and her husband, Dan, have three daughters, ages 13, 11, and 9.

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  • Nicole is married to Trevor, who pastors at Calvary Baptist Church in the small town of Emo, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in rural Manitoba and attended Briercrest College (Saskatchewan), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministry. Nicole joined the ranks of pastors’ wives when the couple moved to northwestern Ontario in Fall 2015. They are still there serving at their first church! Nicole’s opportunities to serve the Lord and people around her come in many shapes and sizes as she and Trevor experience vocational ministry together and persevere with joy in parenting--Andrea (7), Karis (5), Joel (3), and baby Cypress. She particularly enjoys hosting and getting outside with her family for bike rides.

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  • Jennifer McConnell

    Jason and Jennifer McConnell and their four children live in Franklin, Vermont where they have served in small-town church ministry for the past 13 years. Jason is the Senior Pastor of Franklin United Church and East Franklin Union Church. Jennifer leads worship each Sunday and teaches music four days a week in the public elementary schools in Franklin and nearby Sheldon. She earned a Church Music degree from Moody Bible Institute, where she and Jason met. She enjoys networking with other small-town pastors’ wives.

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  • Since graduating from Denver Seminary, Mark McCready has served as a small town/rural pastor for twenty plus years. He is happily married to Wendy and is thankful for their two beautiful girls.

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  • Anna has grown up familiar with the ins and outs of ministry life as a pastor's kid. She is currently studying online with Liberty University with the hopes of graduating with a Bachelors in English & Writing. Someday she would like to work in the publishing industry. When she is not crafting or reading the many unread books on her bookshelves she enjoys spending time with her family, watching a variety of movies and TV shows, or sharing her love of books with her Bookstagram community. Follow her @anna.thestorygirl on Instagram for more.

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  • Wendy lives in Alma, Ontario, Canada with her husband Mark and two daughters where Mark has been the senior pastor of Alma Bible Church since the summer of 2010. Together they have served for over 15 years in rural and small-town ministry. Their previous small-town pastoral work included a church in the mountains of Colorado while Mark was in seminary, and then in northern Ontario “cottage” country upon graduation. Wendy works as an Educational Assistant in the local schools where she enjoys making community connections in order to share Christ and helping children with special challenges learn new things. She also enjoys participating in music ministry in their church and hosting people in their home.

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  • Tessa McGilbra

    Tessa serves alongside her husband, Michael, who is the Associate Pastor at New Breed Church in Louisville, Kentucky. As she walks with God, she’s reminded of His faithfulness, knowing everything He does is purposeful and prepares her for what’s ahead. She’s served in both small and large churches—church planting, directing VBS, leading in youth and women’s ministry, and coordinating events and speakers—while also working outside the home and raising two kids. Encouraging other ministry wives is close to her heart, and she loves creating space for honest conversations, mutual support, and helping them grow in their calling.

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  • Cheryl Anne and her husband, Mike, enjoy living with their dog and three cats in Norland, Ontario, two hours north of Toronto, where Mike is senior pastor at Pioneer Baptist Church since 2021, after pastoring five years at Wawa Baptist Church in Wawa. In Cheryl Anne’s second – and final – retirement from an IT career in a southern Ontario school board, she co-leads two women’s Bible studies, oversees Sunday school and March VBS, participates in July’s VBS and a seven-month children’s program, lends her voice to a worship team, and is church webmaster. With an Honours English degree, Cheryl Anne earned a graduate-level Certificate for Women in Ministry (2016) and is pursuing her Master of Theological Studies degree online from Heritage College and Seminary. Within the community, Cheryl Anne waters plants for the Norland Horticultural Society on Wednesdays, ministers year-round to women attending the library’s Thursday “Knitting Club” and gives away discarded library books at Friday’s farmer’s market. Cheryl Anne loves gardening, acrylic painting, writing papers or Bible studies, studying God’s Word, and reading books or commentaries (really!) to learn and share about Jesus, her Lord and Saviour since a young age.

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  • Sonya Pearson

    Sonya Pearson is a pastor’s wife in rural northeast Kansas on the edge of the Flint Hills. Sonya and her husband Tim have been married for 20 years and serve with RHMA as missionaries, strengthening a small country church. They have two daughters that are entering their teen years. As a pastor’s wife, she helps with worship, ladies’ ministries, kid’s ministries, and one-on-one discipleship. As a mom, she cheers her girls on in basketball and soccer as well as helping with the girls’ kittens, and as a wife, she supports her husband in all that he does in ministry and life, including his many hunting endeavors. When she is not busy with the life of a pastor’s wife and mom, Sonya works as a para-educator with special needs kids in a nearby school district. In her spare time, you might find her reading or playing piano, perfecting her pie crust recipe for the church’s famous gooseberry pies, making Monster Cookie bars, or canning homemade salsa and spaghetti sauce.

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  • Leigh Powers

    Leigh Powers has had a lifelong love affair with the Word of God. A pastor's wife, mother of three, and award-winning author and speaker, she is passionate about helping women find hope and healing in God's Word. She is the author of "Renewed: A 40-Day Devotional for Healing from Church Hurt and for Loving Well in Ministry." You can connect with Leigh on Facebook (@LeighPowersMinistries), Twitter (@leigh_powers), or at her blog, www.leighpowers.com.

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  • Lois Seadore

    I am married to a retired pastor, the mother of 4 grown children and grandma to 5 girls and 3 boys. They are the delight of my life! But the spiritual delight of my life is women's ministry. God allows me to teach and disciple through group Bible studies and personal relationships. After 50 years of ministry I find myself in a different position and changing responsibilities. The way I see God working through me most at this time is through intercessory prayer and encouragement by conversation and texts. No matter the location or stage of life, it is a joy to serve the Lord!

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  • Karen Stiller

    Karen Stiller is the author of The Minister’s Wife: a memoir of faith, doubt, friendship, loneliness, forgiveness and more (Tyndale House, 2020), a senior editor of Faith Today magazine, and hosts The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada Podcast.

    She is co-author of Craft, Cost & Call: How to Build a Life as a Christian Writer (Friesen Press, 2019); Shifting Stats Shaking the Church: 40 Canadian Churches Respond (2015), Going Missional (2012); and editor of Evangelicals Around the World: a global handbook for the 20th century (Thomas Nelson, 2015), and The Lord’s Prayer (Wipf & Stock, 2015), by faculty at the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College). Stiller moderates the annual Religion and Society series at the University of Toronto, a debate series between leading atheists and theologians that seeks to generate critical conversations on matters of faith, society and public interest.

    Karen is married to Brent Stiller, a priest with the Anglican Church in North America. They live in Ottawa and have three adult children, Erik, Holly and Thomas.

    Stiller has a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University, a communications certificate from Tyndale University College & Seminary, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from University of King’s College, Dalhousie. Stiller holds an honorary doctorate from Providence University and is an honorary alumna at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

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  • Ann Stringer

    As a little girl, Ann dreamed about being a pastor’s wife. Now she knows she was crazy to dream for such a role, so now she dreams about being faithful to God no matter what path of ministry God brings her to and through. She currently serves her pastor husband and their church in small-town Littleton, Illinois. They have four kids whom she homeschools.

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  • We are a group of pastors' wives who want to encourage you in your small-town, rural ministry!

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  • Ellen Tuttle

    Wife, mom, grandmother, teacher, speaker, former pastor’s wife. We pastored in IL for 7 years before joining the staff of Walk Thru the Bible in 1992. I am a teacher and speaker and a writer wannabe…in the making!

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  • Cassandra Walston and her husband, Jarod, minister in Chesterfield, Illinois, where they homeschool and raise the eight children God has entrusted to them, even while looking forward to meeting the two in heaven. She loves kids piled in her lap to listen to a good book, playing games with the family, and painting amongst her family as often as possible. If you were to visit her home, you would be inundated by questions and stories from her little people. The walls surrounding you would be full of pictures of and by her family, interspersed with a splattering of truth. She would also give you unsolicited book recommendations, and she might even read a really good picture book to you, regardless of your age.

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  • Stacey Weeks

    Stacey is a ministry wife, mother of three teenagers, and a sipper of hot tea with honey. She loves to open the Word of God and share the hope of Christ with women. She is a multi-award-winning author, the primary home-educator of her children, and a frequent conference speaker. Her messages have been described as rich in the truths of Scripture, gospel-infused, and life-changing. Stacey has a graduate certificate in women’s ministry with Heritage College and Seminary and is pursuing a certificate in Biblical Counselling.

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