Elsie Montgomery: Writer, Speaker & Artist

 

Writer & Writing Instructor

  • Bible Studies — Writes adult inductive studies
  • Teaches how to write Bible studies
Seminars & Workshops
  • Speaker & Teacher — Retreats, etc.
  • Various topics — Balanced Life to Women's Roles
InScribe Christian Writers’ Fellowship
  • Former newsletter Editor & Layout
  • Current Web designer  & all graphic arts

Artist & Quilt Maker

  • Graphic Artist — AERIEGRAPHICS
  • Quilt Instructor — Fellowship Peacemakers

Blog: Practical Faith
  • Daily thoughts on living out my faith in a complicated and challenging world.
Reproducing Spiritual Women: Coaching Kit
The Journey: a discipleship tool for Fellowship Baptist Churches of Canada, translated and used in South America and Italy.
Writing Creatively distance learning course, available:  Briercrest Schools
  • Basics to putting your work on a publisher’s desk;
  • Part I for BA; Part II at Masters level
Parables: editorial published for 17 years in Fort Record newspaper, from 1985 to the end of 2002.
  • Published weekly
  • Daily events illustrate Biblical truth
Bible Studies: taught for 30 years, written curriculum for over 15 years
  • 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
Getting Started: Writing Bible Studies

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.
How-To Pamphlets

Order from author

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

Former Layout Editor of FellowScript and

Design Editor of InScribe Web site
Designer: Web Sites, numerous letterheads, logos, advertising documents, and several original art quilts.
Published over 900 newspaper and magazine articles PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE

Temptation


It stays in the pantry I tell myself today
I must resist, eat lettuce, drink
my eight glasses
behave myself.

Wandering mind and growling
I yearn not
for peas and carrots
beef and chicken fat-free
soups and whole wheat bread.

But I insist it stays in the pantry
for dinner table later, not for me
I don’t need this now...
I don’t need this now...

Wandering mind, discontent
though dutifully plied
I draw my fill from
insipid food groups four
but then there is the pantry...

Please, let the doorbell ring
and rescue me, my hand
reaching touching, fondly
anticipation rising
My tongue runs
along my upper lip
one glance and all resistance melts

If chocolate cake had eyes
they would smolder
with seductive passion.

© 1997 Elsie Montgomery

Comments?

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 (sample of one of my logo & masthead designs)
  • Quilting: Design, construction and classroom instruction (Fellowship Peacemakers) See more
  • Gardening: rock garden, perennials and lots of poppies!
 
Wild Flowers in New York  Sunflowers & Asters (detail) Undecided Stars
       

 

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