About the Author Nancy Knapp is a retired educator with thirty-six years' secondary school experience in the Los Angeles Unified School District and twenty years' part-time experience as Director of Christian Education for St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in Lomita, California. She is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, with a BA degree in business education, an MA degree in Secondary School Teaching, and an MS degree in School Counseling. A member of St. Mark's since 1973, Nancy and her late husband, Owen, interspersed raising a family with active involvement in the life of