| Rebekah Montgomery is an amazing woman of God who came to know Jesus as her personal Savior when she was only three years old. Not long after that, she felt compelled to share the gospel with anyone who would listen, so she was often found preaching to her congregation of barnyard cats, pleading with them to accept Jesus before it was too late. By the time she was 13, she was teaching Sunday school, Children’s Church, and Bible studies in an inner-city congregation.
At 17, she married her high school sweetheart, and they were soon involved in fulltime ministry, but several family tragedies, including the death of a baby to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, broke her health and forced her to rest and recuperate. It was then that her writing talents began to surface, as she poured out her grief on paper.
Since then, writing assignments, speaking, and study have taken her to exotic ports-of-call — Argentina, the West Bank of Palestine, Canada, Haiti, the Dominican Republic. In 2002, she and her husband took doctorate level Bible classes at Jerusalem University College. Her husband then returned home, but she stayed in Israel as a guest of the Ministry of Tourism, one of a group of Christian journalists so honored. This was her second study sabbatical in Israel. The Ministry of Tourism sponsored another tour in 2005, and she has also traveled Israel on her own.
Both she and her husband make it a practice to join and be actively involved in a local evangelical church wherever they happen to be living. At present, she is teaching two women's Bible study groups at Northwoods Community Church, but she also frequently speaks in other churches of various denominations. Those of us who know and love her are never surprised to find her off in a corner somewhere, praying with someone in distress, or helping to clean up after some meeting or other.
It was a great honor to present the first annual Beyond Me award to Rebekah Montgomery for her humble modeling of a you-first life in a me-first world! You can find out more about Rebekah at http://RebekahMontgomery.com.
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