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Valerie Elliot Shepard. Valerie graduated from Wheaton College in 1976 with a BA in English Literature. She married Walter Shepard shortly after that and moved to live with him in Louisiana. Walter grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with his missionary parents.
Valerie attended and graduated from Wheaton College in 1976 with a BA in English Literature. She married Walter Shepard shortly after that and moved to live with him in Louisiana. Valerie has spent 36 years being a pastor’s wife, raising 8 children, homeschooling, and teaching Bible studies.
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- On Bended Kneelink
- We Have Waited For Himlink
My delight in reading them started in 2011, after my last child left for college. Then, about ten months after my mother died in 2015, I found what I was truly not expecting. I discovered, tucked away in the attic, what I was sure were lost: my mother’s letters to my father. These letters had traveled with him throughout his time in Ecuador, and ye...
In the Old Testament, a “devoted thing” (Leviticus 27:28) meant something given up as a sacrifice, and this is exactly what Jim Elliot and Betty Howard did with each other. They were devoted to God first, and his glory, so their letters reflected their primary purpose. Verses that spoke to them about trusting and waiting were frequently studied and...
Waiting, trusting, praying, and waiting again. How deep our prayer life grows, when we take God at his word, and meditate on words like these of Isaiah: And another of my favorites is Isaiah 30:15, 18: My parents’ devotion to him played out in separate places as they wrote and begged God to send them to the mission field, and to show them clearly w...
They chose Isaiah 25:9 KJVas their answer from him: I want others to hear the love story I found in their letters, a story of my mother and father dying to self in order to bow to the authority of their Father — asking, seeking, knocking, and trusting God and his timing. I pray their unusual love, for the Lord and each other, will inspire and shape...
Aug 11, 2022 · Just a few years earlier, Elisabeth Elliot was still touring the country, captivating audiences with the account of her first husband’s death at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in 1956. But by 2004, dementia had ravaged her mind, leaving Valerie to take up the mantle of the Elliot legacy.
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- Be Thankful for Your Children. I sure was more worried and fearful about how we were lacking in our consistent training in teaching obedience. Much more worried about OUR performance rather than being aware that the children were amazing gifts to help me to trust in Him for help in raising them!
- Pray with Your Husband for Your Children. Have you prayed specifically for each child with your husband, and have you thanked the Lord for them? I cannot tell you enough how often it wiped away my worries when my husband would pray with me for them.
- Raise Your Children to Have Faith in a Covenant Keeping God. Is He not the God who delivered us from the Kingdom of darkness, and did He not give us each one of our children with needs that we can fulfill, but ultimately He is the one who saves and provides for them?
- Cast Your Parenting Cares on God. Even "respectable people" can avoid their responsibilities, but God, who makes us aware of our need for Him, as we read His Word, will lead us gently to be loving, kind, and wise in leading our children.
Christian Heritage is grateful to The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation for making available Walt and Valerie Elliot Shepard’s 4 workshop recordings from the 2022 Family Discipleship and Homeschooling Conference.
Valerie Elliot Shepard. 3,573 likes · 6 talking about this. I grew up in the Amazon jungle, and my dearest friends were Quichua and Huarani Indians.
