Elaine stedman biography

Elaine was born in El Cerrito, CA August 17, and grew up in Great Falls, Montana where, after high school, she met and married her husband.!

She was born in rural Edmunds, ND on April 30, , to John and Ella (Schaeffer) Scheck.

She was born in rural Edmunds, N.D., on April 30, , to John and Ella (Schaeffer) Scheck.

Elaine was born in El Cerrito, CA August 17, and grew up in Great Falls, Montana where, after high school, she met and married her husband.

Joyce was born on July 17, to Forrest and Gladys (Robertson) Malcolm.

The compulsion to write A Woman's Worth was born out of my own experience in the business world, as wife and mother, as friend and counselor.

Acknowledgments

I WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE the invaluable assistance and encouragement of Elaine Stedman, wife of Ray Stedman, and their four daughters, Sheila, Susan, Linda, and Laurie. This biography was written with their permission and support.

The Ray C.

Stedman Library, maintained by Discovery Publishing on the Peninsula Bible Church Web site () and containing many of Ray's sermons and four of his books in their entirety, was also a tremendous source of information about Ray Stedman and his ministry.

[Note: Since this book was published, the Ray Stedman Library has its own new web site, --ed.].

Joanie Burnside's unpublished history of Peninsula Bible Church from to , A Stone's Throw, was an invaluable resource, as was Wade Whitcomb's unpublished homiletic biography on Ray Stedman, "Passing of the Torch."

I also wish to acknowledge Ruth N.

Brandon for her tireless work in preparing the dissertation stage of this manuscript, as well as her assistance with the bibliography of Ra