Linda Valente
Linda Valente is a retired family nurse practitioner and retired professor of nursing, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Her assistant writer and husband Frank, who has a graduate degree in theology from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinos is a retired hospice/ hospital chaplain for Carle/Methodist in Peoria, Illinois. Linda and Frank were short term missionaries first with Wesleyan Native American Ministries and later with TEAM in Zimbabwe.
They currently attend church at New Beginning Ministries of Peoria. Their son, David Valente, writer of poems in this devotional, has a graduate degree from Moody Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois. Paul Anderton, Linda’s father, was an artist for this book. Seth Anderton Peterson, age 10, is another family artist who lives in Cape Town, South Africa.