Sandi Banks lives in Texas and is the author of Anchors of Hope. She works for Summit Ministries and enjoys traveling and ministering in various countries.
James Stuart Bell is the compiler of this volume and numerous other volumes of inspirational short stories, including A Cup of Comfort and the Extraordinary Answers to Prayer series.
Ruth Biskupski calls Grand Junction, Colorado, home.
Connie Brown is married to a kind husband and is a mother of four and a grandmother of five. Her writing has appeared in Christian and local publications.
Sally Burbank practices internal medicine as a career. She spends her free time nurturing two teens, tending a large country garden, teaching Sunday school, reading, and sweating at the YMCA.
Billy Burch is a pastor at Christ Community Church. He received his B.S. at Liberty University and an M.Div. and M.A. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Kristin H. Carden is a Christian counselor at her private practice in South Carolina. Her heart is for people to experience true freedom from fear and inner healing through Jesus Christ.
Laura Chevalier lives in Colorado and coordinates programs for international students and short-term mission teams. She also enjoys hiking, biking, and writing (www.hope-on-the-journey.blogspot.com).
Charles D. Cochran has a ministry that spans twenty-five years—acting, writing, and directing Christmas/Easter musical dramas including an adaptation of Max Lucado’s An Angel’s Story. He resides in Denver with his wife, Sharon.
Liz Collard is a Christ follower, wife, and mother from Orlando. Author of the Building a Godly Marriage series, her heart’s desire is to see families serving and glorifying God together.
Craig Cornelius is an avid outdoorsman who will hunt and fish any chance he gets. He is married and has three kids and two dogs. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Fran Courtney-Smith lived in Africa from the time her British missionary parents went there in 1947. Fran served as a career missionary in Africa, delivering over four thousand babies there. Retired, she lives in Arcadia, California.
Kat Crawford is the author of Capsules of Hope: Survival Guide for Caregivers. She is published in fifteen compilations and numerous magazines. Read about her journey on www.caringbridge.org/visit/kat2009 or http://lionheartedkat.com.
Peggy Cunningham and her husband have been missionaries in Bolivia since 1981. She has written thirteen children’s books and contributes to The Voice of Grace and Truth and Devo Kids.
Sally Edwards Danley began her writing career in the 1980s and is a leader in the Heart of America Christian Writers Network. See her Facebook page and her website: www.sallysdoor.vpweb.com.
Debi Downs is from Joplin, Missouri. At her music studio, A Joyful Noise, she teaches talented piano, violin, and Kindermusik students.
Loretta J. Eidson is enrolled in Jerry Jenkins’ Christian Writer’s Guild Journeyman course and has had short stories published in several anthologies.
Beatrice Fishback, along with her husband, Jim, is coauthor of Defending the Military Marriage and Defending the Military Family. She is also the author of Loving Your Military Man.
Connie Green grew up in southwest Kansas, graduated from Kansas University, and worked at Hallmark Cards before marrying Tim Green and becoming a homemaker and mother of three. She passed away in 2006 from cancer.
Nancy Hagerman is a writer and speaker from western Colorado. She is the author of In the Pit: A Testimony of God’s Faithfulness to a Bipolar Christian.
Charles Earl Harrel served as a pastor for thirty years. He has over three hundred fifty published works. His stories and devotionals have appeared in various magazines, including twenty-four book compilations.
Bob Haslam has served as a pastor, missionary, and magazine and book editor. He served as an executive with World Relief, the international relief arm of the National Association of Evangelicals.
Anneliese Jawinski loves to help anyone in need to achieve spiritual and physical well-being. She is also an organic gardener and a daily pole walker.
Linda Jett lives in Newberg, Oregon, where she gives massages, participates in Celebrate Recovery, and joins her husband of thirty-two years in their church’s drama ministry.
Pat Stockett Johnston is a multi-published author of devotionals, books, and articles. She lives in Temple City, California.
Suzan Klassen is published in 101 Facets of Faith and Focus on Your Child. However, her only true claim to fame is that God put her name in His Book of Life.
Marcia K. Leaser has more than nine hundred pieces published, including a children’s book, Frizzeldee’s Catastrophe, and a woman’s devotional, Every Step of the Way.
Susan A. J. Lyttek, award-winning writer, wife to Gary, and homeschool mother of two teenage boys, writes early mornings in the shadow of our nation’s capital.
Robert A. McCaughan, after retiring from the Air Force, became a church pastoral counselor. Later he served as the Chairperson of the Counseling Department at Luther Rice Seminary.
Mike McKown went through Aviation Cadet Training with Robert McCaughan. Both were awarded their wings as navigators and commissioned as second lieutenants at the same time. He is a retired Vietnam veteran.
David Milotta is a retired pastor living in Hawaii. Married with two adult children, he loves Great Danes, windsurfing, and stand-up paddle surfing. He is the author of Faithbuildings: Partnering with God for Miracles.
Joe Murphy is the pastor of St. Aidan’s Anglican Church in Oswego, Illinois, and a professor who teaches at various colleges and seminaries.
Jane Owen is a freelance writer who enjoys retirement in the woods of West Virginia. She and her husband, Ron, were missionaries in Haiti for almost three years.
Donald E. Phillips is a former chaplain, professor, pastor, and author of four internationally recognized academic books and shorter writings on prayer, God’s will, grief recovery, and other topics.
Connie K. Pombo is a “retired” author, speaker, and freelance writer who lives in Cuenca, Ecuador. She has contributed to several story anthologies and can be reached at www.conniepombo.com.
Susan E. Ramsden, a writer and speaker, enjoys encouraging others with her spiritual poetry and devotionals. She has been published in several anthologies.
Angie Reedy delights in finding evidence of God’s extraordinary greatness in the ordinary happenings of life. She lives in central Illinois with her husband and three children.
Jonathan Reiff, a semi-retired tax lawyer in Oklahoma, received his Army commission through ROTC at Harvard. He lives with his wife, Roz, two daughters, and five grandchildren in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Linda W. Rooks is the author of Broken Heart on Hold and has written short pieces for various anthologies.
Tina Samples lives with her husband and two boys in Colorado and attends Grace River Church. She is a worship leader, speaker, teacher, and author. You can find her at www.tinasamples.com.
Beverly LaHote Schwind is the author of four books and writes a newspaper column, Patches of Life. She volunteers at the Care Center and teaches in a jail and rehabilitation center. She and her husband are retired and live in Tennessee.
Cheryl Secomb likes to write fiction and has had four short stories published and one devotional pending publication. She is a member of Oregon Christian Writers.
Emily Secomb enjoys writing fiction, especially romance. She currently attends college and is studying to be a medical interpreter for the deaf.
Ingrid Shelton is a retired teacher/librarian and a freelance writer. Her hobbies are organic gardening and walking.
Patti Shene is Vice-President of Written World Communications and Executive Editor for Starsongs magazine. Her work has appeared in local publications and on www.Devokids.com.
Tamara L. Stagg is a freelance writer who lives with her husband and two children in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her published works have appeared in a variety of Christian magazines.
Patricia L. Stebelton, author of The Sleeping Matchbook and Watched, lives with her husband, Dick, in Chelsea, Michigan. She is published in Whispering in God’s Ear and Guidepost’s Extraordinary Answers to Prayer.
Jessica Talbot and her husband live on a hobby farm in British Columbia. She has a passion for intercessory prayer and coordinates an email prayer group from home.
Marianna Carpenter Wieck took her walk into eternity in spring of 2005. Her daughter, Linda Rooks, helped her write her story.
Pam Zollman is the award-winning author of forty children’s books. A former magazine editor, she speaks at writers’ conferences, teaches writing classes, and works at LifeWay Christian Bookstore.