Elsie Montgomery: Writer, Speaker & Artist

Writer & Writing Instructor

• Bible Studies — Writes adult inductive studies
• Teaches how to write Bible studies

• Speaker & Teacher — Retreats, etc.
• Various topics — Balanced Life to Women's Roles

• Former newsletter Editor & Layout
• Current Web designer  & all graphic arts

Artist & Quilt Maker

• Graphic Artist — AERIEGRAPHICS
• Quilt Instructor — Fellowship Piecemakers

• Daily thoughts on living out my faith in a complicated and challenging world.

• For women coaching disciples
• Available NOW!
• e-mail for information

• Make disciples
  For new Christians
  A twelve unit, daily self-study program
  Free: Leader’s Guide Available

• Basics to putting your work on a publisher’s desk;
• Part I for BA; Part II at Masters level

• Published weekly
• Daily events illustrate Biblical truth

• Studies for Women
• Many titles, see List below for those available for group or individual study

Getting Started in Nonfiction

Booklet for InScribe Christian Writers’ Fellowship

• Answers basic questions
• Ideas to get you started writing & submitting your work
• To order

Booklet for InScribe Christian Writers' Fellowship

• Write an Inductive Bible Study for adults that encourages personal or group study and prompts discussion among group members.
• To order
• To take a six-week online course on this topic, see link or contact author.

Order from author

• Book reviews
• Devotionals (sample)
• Profiles
• Getting Started: Writing Nonfiction
• Overcome Common Mistakes in Writing

Design Editor of InScribe Web site

• InScribe’s newsletter
  32-44 page, magazine-style quarterly 
• More info

• Glynis Belec
• Donna Dawson
• Janice Dick
• Mary Haskett
• Ellen Hooge
• Janice Keats
• Marcia Laycock
• Janet Seever
• Linda Siebenga
• IMPRINT
• Shirley S. Tye

• Decision Magazine
• EB Magazine
• Edmonton Journal

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Bible Studies for individuals or groups

 

• Because We Have Jesus: Celebrating the difference Jesus makes in our lives
• Caring for your Aging Parents
• God's Plan for Women: from Genesis to Now
• Meeting God in Busyness
• Mary & Martha
• Spiritual Disciplines
• Knowing & Using Your Gifts
• Biblical Self-Image: Getting a True Picture
• The Gospel of John
• Ephesians
• Integrity

E-mail for more information, available dates, and prices 

Biography

• My roots are in Scotland, Ireland and a small one in Sweden. My family farmed and I grew up with horses, cattle, and belonging to various 4-H clubs. We learned to work hard and love and enjoy our friends and neighbors. I’m working on a family history and now have traced my parent’s families back several generations.
   
• I have a Bachelor degree in Religious Education, and a half a Master’s degree in the same area. Most of my education comes from what my husband calls the School of Experience.
   
• I’ve been married twice, with two children from the first marriage, one from the second. We currently have five grandchildren, ages 8 to 25. If some of them did not play soccer, I likely would — it is the only sport I will watch on television!
   
• When the three were at home, our family theme song used to be “On the Road Again.” We moved all over North America. I’ve lived at nearly 30 different addresses, from Alaska to Illinois. During those years, we received an education that cannot be found in any schools.
   
• I started writing at 16. My first submission was accepted by Canadian Cattleman, but I didn’t “get it” that early success was a good indication to keep at it so didn't write again until my family was nearly grown. In 1985, I began column called Parables published in an Alberta weekly newspaper. It ran for 17 years. I also had other articles published in various magazine, plus three big projects: Writing Creatively, a two-part course for Briercrest Schools’ Dept. of Extension; The Journey, a discipleship manual used by Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada; and Reproducing Spiritual Women, a coaching kit for woman in a one-on-one Christian discipleship relationship.
   
• I enjoy writing, mostly nonfiction but some fiction and even a bit of poetry. I like to edit too, but at the top of my list is writing and teaching Bible studies. I’ve taught a ladies Bible class at Fellowship Baptist Church in Edmonton, AB for many years, and several others before that. During that time, I realized that most of the available study material has missing parts, either discussion questions, application ideas, good openings, or sound study principles. I began writing my own material and have used it for years. Now I offer some of that material for sale.
   
• I found out late in life that I love geometry. I’ve always loved color and like reading mysteries. Quilting combines all three, so it is a close second on that list of that “things I love to do” — and teaching others how to quilt has become a joyful ministry. Quilt blog.
   
• I live in Edmonton, AB in a two-story walk-out with an average size yard that draws me outside, if not to pull weeds, just to enjoy being in the color and challenge of it.
   
• We like to travel. Not counting touring around North America, we’ve been to Scotland to a clan gathering (I’m a Leslie) in 1995 and again in 2005; to Europe (Austria, Germany, Italy); and in 2004 to Thailand and China. We plan to be in South Korea in November, 2008.
   
• My Spiritual Journal is on my Blog, Practical Faith.

Just a few Samples

• Graphic Arts (sampleof one of my logo & masthead designs)
• Quilting: Design, construction and classroom instruction (Fellowship Peacemakers)See more
• Gardening: rock garden, perennials and lots of poppies!

This page is hosted by      InScribe Christian Writers' Fellowship

Last updated: September 04, 2008