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David & Kelli Pritchard

David and Kelli have been married for 25 years and live in Lakewood, Washington. Previously they lived in Centralia, Washington for 17 years.

David, a former college football player, runs Young life near Tacoma, Washington, and coaches football at Clover Park High School. Kelli has a degree in Social Work and Secondary Education from Indiana State University and coaches folks on personal nutrition and health in addition to her roles at home and Pritchard Ministries.

They have eight children of their own and have been guardians for a dozen others. Early in their parenting years, they were constantly being approached by people who said things like, “your family is not normal… how do you do it?” They’d share their techniques, and they’d come back and say, “it’s working! You need to share this with the world.”

Their eight children comprise (at the time of writing) 2 college graduates, 1 in college, 2 in high school, 2 in middle school, 1 third grader.

Listen to David & Kelli on these Radio Interviews and Clips:

Interview 1 (David & Kelli)

Interview 2 (David & Kelli)

Today's Light 1 (David)

Today's Light 2 (Kelli)

Today's Light 3 (David)

Today's Light 4 (Kelli)

Today's Light 5 (David)

Dean Merrill

Dean Merrill has been published in over 40 Christian magazines and is the author or co-author of 26 books. Among his most recent titles are:

  • In the Presence of My Enemies and To Fly Again, both with Philippine missionary survivor Gracia Burnham. The first of these made the New York Times best seller list and won a Gold Medallion award; both were positively reviewed by the industry standard Publishers Weekly.

  • Every Man’s Bible, an action-oriented edition of the New Living Translation, developed in cooperation with Steve Arterburn and a number of other contributors. Merrill was the general editor.

Dean was the collaborator with Jim Cymbala on Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire.

He is a former president of the Evangelical Press Association and a current board member of Global Publishers Alliance, the international arm of ECPA (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association). His past editorial positions have been at Campus Life magazine, David C. Cook, Leadership Journal (CTi), Christian Herald, and Focus on the Family. He was vice president of international publishing at the International Bible Society from 1997 to 2004.

Dean Merrill’s education includes a bachelor of theology degree from Chicago Bible College and a master of arts degree in journalism from Syracuse University. He now writes full-time from his home in Colorado Springs, where he and his wife, Grace, live. They have three married children and six grandchildren.