Debra Aho

Debra Aho was born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, attended NMU but did not graduate. She started a career in banking and then moved to Washington state. There, she married Isaac Aho and had her first 2 children there, Adara and Dax. Continuing her career in mortgage lending with Chase Manhattan until they moved to South Carolina and had 2 more kiddos, Pace and Jory.

Her family joined Youth With A Mission in 2010 in Kona, Hawaii and moved to South Africa shortly after. They lived in Cape Town for over 6 years and fell in love with cultures, foods, hiking, sunsets, vineyards, photography and the ocean.

They served in missions the entire time there and she then spent the last 2 1/2 years gaining a master's degree in Christian Formation and Discipleship with The University of the Nations. The book that is featured here, The Lost Supper, is the capstone project that was conducted to graduate the program.

The family relocated to South Carolina in 2017 and remain there as they launch their four children into adulthood and pursue creative ways to dwell in the kingdom of God there.