Miz Judy has from the age of 12, taught a Sunday School class, using her own art and illustrations, for stories to share with, 2 and 5 year olds. She was asked by an evangelist to preach her first sermon at the age of 12, on the story of Adam and Eve. And this opened the door wider into full time preaching the Gospel. Her writing career was at the same age, telling about the Lords Work. At age fourteen she started into another new adventure to further her seamstress skills. She started her own pattern drafting and making garments, one of a kind, for herself and others that needed her service. She preferred the formal wear, for weddings, over the creations of everyday clothes. And loved writing Drama and plays, creating clothing the time periods. In the mean time she continued in the lords work. And then by the time she married, in 1956, she soon after, opened her own Silhouette of Fashions and taught others to model and do stage walking. Even in her designs she mad mens and young boys tuxedos. When wining a scholarship, Miz Judy, decided to go ahead and open her own business, to help other modeling agents to draft sewing-books for teaching classes, mostly by postal mail. In this type of work and writing, she continued to teach art and crafts to students, from grade school through college. She kept her classes private, in her own home, as it was easier to work with a few students, and not a large audience. She enjoys genealogy and especial history of her family heritage, She had been asked to write a novel based on the Civil War stories, which had been handed down to her from Grandparents, and then, using her ancestors....they became the main characters with fictitious names. She brought the book to life with Romance, love, hate, slavery and conspiracy, all the while keeping the Lord as the center of all pages. Miz Judy, enjoys helping other folks to write their own story for printing. Shes been working on several books at one time, over a good number of years, and on many many subjects One is a 7 to 8 family generation cookbook. The other is poems collected and saved, that she and family have written. One book shes wants to get out, soon is on the paranormal activity, about the real and supernatural, of good and evil. Miz Judy, says her life is a Patchwork of self-taught education.,and since she retired in 1995, prefers taking time with her family, and preaching the Word of the Lord, and writing. Mr Mel Biography He has always been known as a quiet man, which never liked to speak before spoken to,.He respected the elderly, and especially his parents. Very early in life, he learned manners to be a gentleman, and in school and his chosen working careers, he done them well. He grew up with an older sibling of five yeas, and they were raised on a farm. He learned early what hard work was all about. As a child, he preferred to play by himself outdoors, and enjoyed board games, reading and putting together puzzles with his family and cousins. In his teenage years he began to see the world in a different way, and the reason for living. Mel, never liked to talk about politics, or war issues and avoided, all of this kind of conversation, when possible. His reason was that he had been raised in a stick doctrine of the Law of the Lord, from his father, whom, was Deacon in The Church of the Brethren... His mother had been raised and attended her own Lutheran Church, and on occasion he went with her, for special fellowships and dinners. In his early teens, throughout adulthood, he chose to stand up for what he believed in. Mel had started his early ministry for to the Lord, while in his teens by recording the Sunday service, and making sure the elderly, and shut-ins, had them to listen too during the week. He sometimes traveled to other towns to share them. When it was time to leave his parents- (family nest), He decided not be drafted into War and went off to do other duties for his Country, and to combine, other educational services, like refinishing furniture, and building. In College studied for a degree of becoming a Milk supervisor for the area, that he lived in. It was just before he went off to college in 1994 he met his soon to be wife, at a district, out of state... Brethren Youth conference.. And two years later they married. Together they worked with the Church, and done years of dedicated preaching, and traveled as an Evangelist team. Mel kept busy in his own business, farming, and in Home Remodeling houses for the Government. He also stayed with his fathers farming and business of plumbing, heating and roofing, until moving to another location in 1967, and worked on his own farm of 100 acres. At this new farm, he and Miz Judy, continued their own outreach center for Youth and took in some of their parents, and name the homestead... Hope for Youth Center, and here they raise their then 4 children, and bordered lots of other children and families, for 20 years. At this time as family, they were still traveling to wherever the Lord needed them to go, and worked with Teen Challenge in New York and Columbus, Ohio, and with other Ministers and laymen as they traveled. Mr. Mel states, that they had their Church at the Youth Center, and shared with other Pastors, to come and hold service. Their tent meetings, kept on growing and they had to get a larger tent over the years, to accommodate the crowd of people that attended the revival services. He kept other activities every month of the year, with other churches. They kept, busy, in the spring until late fall, they had lots of camp outs, dinners and picnics. The barn was always cleaned out to hold seminars. In the fall and winter, was outdoor contest, of making snowmen, forts, skiing and tobogganing. And making candies to, baking contest of making cookies and pastries.. They had lots of fun. Being in the full Gospel, of the Lords work, Mr. Mel says he was taught many lesson, of living in peace and Harmony. And enjoyed helping Miz Judy, to put this latest book in format to be published.
