Author

Gloria Beard

Writer

Gloria Beard is the executive assistant to the general presbyter and other senior staff of Grace Presbytery, Irving, Texas. She is also a freelance writer and public speaker and is currently working on a memoir about her experiences planting churches in Australia with her husband, Brian.

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