Joanne Beckley

I am the daughter of a preacher with a wonderful heritage of the gospel of Jesus Christ from four generations who lived before I came along. I grew up wanting to marry my own "preacher-man" and we would go to far-away places to share the light of the gospel, what I had been so privileged to grow up within. Today, my preacher-man and I live in South Africa where he travels between Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa carrying that same light. We reared our three sons in this country and they now live in the States and have provided us with seven grandchildren.

I'm just an ordinary woman who loves the sunshine. Even though I often have to play the "Glad Game" (taken from the book "Pollyanna") when I am faced with problems this world hands out to all of us, I do love to share smiles with all I meet.