Geoff Beech is an Australian, currently living in Toccoa, Georgia, USA. He taught in Primary Schools in New South Wales for many years before he and his family were called to Bolivia, South America to work as an education missionary. Following sixteen years of missionary service the family returned to Australia where Geoff worked in post-graduate Christian teacher training till recently. Geoff’s first wife, Michelle, passed away in 2012 and Geoff is now married to Elizabeth, a US citizen who had also been a missionary in Bolivia for many years. Between them they have seven children and six grandchildren—living in Australia, the USA, and South Korea. Geoff is semi-retired, now writing and researching, and Beth is the Director of Graduate Studies in Toccoa Falls College.