Elisha

We waited four years and had Elisha in 1990. I was immensely big by the end of the pregnancy but naively thought I was going to have a tiny baby. I chose baby clothes for the birth that the midwife laughed at as she held them up. He weighed 10 pounds 6 ounces. 

He was sweet natured right from the start. He also revealed a love for animals very early. We hatched out a batch of chicks when he was a preschooler, and he could not leave them alone. He spent hours holding them one at a time.

During his high-school years he studied bees. He set up bee hives and visited them often, far more than bees care to be visited. He tried a number of experiments on them for better production and ridding them of pests. He kept bees for several years after high-school too, but by this time he’d learned good bee keeping practice.

Later, he took nursing in college and graduated with a Bachelor degree. He worked his way through college in related fields. After college, he worked in nursing for a while, but felt called into mission work. He’s now in Haiti managing a Jesus film ministry. He’s such a blessing!