 stay-at-home-mom. She serves her family by keeping a comfortable home and intends to home school her children the way she and her three brothers were. Kezia enjoys singing, cooking, sewing, painting, writing, and sharing a cup of tea and a smorgasbord of ideas with friends and family.
Ruth is living out her vocation as a Lutheran woman in the roles of sister, daughter, mother, and wife. Her greatest joy in life is living as a redeemed child of God, who has blessed her in her many vocations. Besides her human relationships, Ruth's other interests include music and writing. She is a church musician and has a special love for Lutheran hymnody. Her children's book, Our Faith from A to Z, and her adult novel, Grace Alone, are available through CPH. Ruth keeps her own blog at truthnotes.net. Her hope is that through her writing you are encouraged and perhaps even challenged in your God-given vocations.
Hannah became a member of the LCMS during her junior year of high school while her father was attending Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft Wayne, IN. She graduated from Concordia University Wisconsin with a master’s degree in occupational therapy, and enjoyed helping adults rehabilitate from injuries until this past year when she resigned to fulfill a new vocation as stay-at-home mom. Her days are now spent supporting her husband in his calling as a pastor, hosting endless tea parties with her daughter, and planning a vegetable garden beyond her wildest dreams. She sporadically blogs over at Heath and Home.
Elizabeth is a deaconess student at Concordia Theological Seminary, and is currently awaiting her internship with no clue as to where that will be. When not writing, she can often be found curled up with a book (a Terry Pratchett novel being the most recent), singing (she is currently working on a piece by Mozart and one by Torelli), exercising (Les Mills Combat is fantastic!), or cooking (a girl’s got to eat.) A California - San Francisco Bay Area native, she thinks snow is something to visit and is best left in the mountains where it belongs. Because of this, she thinks she’ll probably be sent to Alaska for internship.
Allison lives in Springfield, PA, with her husband Rob and their four daughters. She has been a daughter and sister for nearly forty years, a wife for nearly fourteen years, an English teacher and reading specialist for nearly ten years, and a mother for nearly seven years. She currently works at home as the general manager of household affairs, short-order cook, laundress, and teacher.
Kaitlyn is a pastor’s daughter, vicar's wife, baby boy's mother, and the "president emeritus" of the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of Lutheran Student Fellowship of Pittsburgh. She enjoys apologetics, music, travel, and naps. Kaitlyn's neglected blog is Pottery in Progress.
A.H. Shelley is a child of God, redeemed through Christ's blood and set free by His mercy. She enjoys living out her vocations as daughter, sister, friend and employee and rejoices daily in the multitude of gifts the Lord has provided her with.
Jackquelyn has taught students (kindergarten through college) for 25+ years. Married to Gene Edward Veith, they are parents of three adult children and nine beautiful grandchildren. They are members of St. Athanasius Lutheran Church in Vienna, VA.
Heather is a pastor's wife in rural Illinois, prior to which she was a teacher in a classical Lutheran school in Wyoming and spent time in the Washington, D.C. area working on a master's degree in English. She has an abiding love for reading, baking, deep intellectual conversations, and persistent Lutheran matchmakers.
Kris is a pastor’s wife and a native of Finland. She home-schooled her five daughters (the eldest of whom is editor of SDMW), and is currently down to one student left at home. She bakes a mean spinach pie, is often found with knitting needles in her hands, sings in choir, and maneuvers her minivan (so says her husband) a bit like a retired race-car driver. She will feed any student who comes to her church.
Rhiannon is a classical home educator and freelance writer. She writes about homeschooling and family and how they interact with culture at Homeschool Family Culture. She married her college sweetheart, a scientist, which regularly makes for entertaining conversation. Together they have three sweet children who constantly inject hilarity into their lives.
Dawn is a housewife and homeschooler in Ravenna, Nebraska. She and her husband have six living children. In the past, Dawn directed high school musical theater and served as assistant editor for an online magazine. She likes her current line of work much better.
Dana is Pastor Stan Palmer's wife, a mother of four, a mother-in-law to one, a daughter, a sister, and a friend. She has a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Spanish. Although she has enjoyed tutoring students in Spanish as well as teaching Sunday School, the majority of her teaching experience comes from teaching her own children, three of whom she currently home schools. As an adult Lutheran convert, she is particularly interested in Lutheran theology and is thankful to be Lutheran. She finds pleasure in reading classic fiction, writing, classic movies, exercising, scrapbooking, and spending time with people.
Beth is a pastor's wife, who with Jim, her husband of 33 years, lives in her hometown of Florence, Massachusetts. The couple has served parishes in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Indiana. Beth currently works as a teacher's aid in a small rural elementary school in Westhampton, MA. She holds a bachelor's degree in science from the University of Massachusetts.
Diana is married to Aaron, has an infant son named Simon Peter, and is currently a deaconess intern from Concordia Theological Seminary. She believes concise is good when it comes to her personal details.
Aubri lives in Bancroft, Nebraska. She is the wife of a pastor and a keeper of house, unmatched socks, and too many sippy cups. She and her husband have six children and a seventh due in April of 2015. She was raised in Texas and received a BA in History from the University of Texas at Austin, but always just wanted to be a wife and mother. She enjoys singing hymns, observing the church year with her family, baking muffins, reading if she can stay awake and drinking strong coffee. Aubri blogs at A Bundle of Myrrh and The Church Year in the Home.
Melanie is the middle child of five and grew up in the beautiful Florida sunshine. Her desire for a Lutheran education (as well as her father's last wish) led her to Concordia River Forest and a degree in Communications and Theology. Melanie met her husband on the day she moved to Chicago, married him two and a half years later, and is now the mother of five boys and six babies in heaven. Her days are full of home schooling and keeping her growing boys fed.
Alison is a married mother of three. A daughter and sister of artists, herself an artist (though she's loath to admit it), she blogs at Alison's Open Sketchbook.
After graduating from Concordia Seward and serving as a Lutheran teacher for a decade, Kristen is now a stay-at-home Mom. She still teaches music part time at one of the 16 Lutheran schools in Fort Wayne. Kristen writes about living both frugally and joyfully on her website –Joyfully Thriving. When she’s not busy finding good bargains, you might find her reading with her son or baking something chocolate. Kristen’s husband, Andy (another Lutheran school teacher), is living this frugal Lutheran journey with her, as they raise their 9-month old son, Nathan.
Rebekah spends her days living life alongside her husband and children. She enjoys reading, homeschooling, and every once in a great while, chasing after the wind.
After studying agronomy and entomology at Purdue University, Drusha turned her attention to raising and educating seven children. She lives in Indiana with her husband and youngest daughters. Now that she is no longer busy teaching Calculus and overseeing meals for nine hungry eaters, she studies French, and recently completed training in Christian counseling.
Annalise is a confessional Lutheran young woman living in rural Michigan. She is an graduated alumni of Augustine College, a small liberal arts school in Ottawa, Canada and a student at Hillsdale College, in Hillsdale, Michigan. However, she took a leave from school to pursue training in towards becoming a professional ballroom dancer, and is now happily dancing her little heart out at a small studio in Indiana. She plans on returning to Hillsdale College in January 2016 to pursue a major in History, a minor in dance, and a better understanding of herself and the rest of humanity. When she's not dancing, she enjoys time with friends and family, cooking with lots of spices, and eating chocolate. Feel free to contact her at [email protected] (photo credit to Beth Rumley Photography).
Caitlin is the daughter of a family of Lutheran musicians and church workers. She is an aspiring novelist, college student, and thinker of too many thoughts. She lives in Oklahoma with her family.
The daughter of a pastor and sister-in-law to a pastor, Michelle, perhaps inevitably, married a pastor. She and her husband recently settled into his first call in Maryland where she enjoys