Esther Griggs

Born in Espanola, Ontario, Canada, I was born number five in a family of eventually seven siblings. Seven of my early childhood years were spent on an island in the St. Mary's River running from Lake Superior to Lake Huron. Outdoors much of the time, I received the luxury of imagination. Then, my family moved to Southern Ontario in proximity to a Christian Camp from where I commited my life to Jesus Christ and received for one, a love for the Bible.

As a young adult, I attended Spring Arbor University in Michigan, after which I married my husband and began our own family. My husband and I, following his years of education, returned to the island of my childhood where he became pastor of the white church on the hill. There our third child and daughter was born. Our pastoral role brought us back to Southern Ontario where we continued to pastor and then dove into missions, supporting our efforts through work, mine with vulnerable adults until retirement. In retirement we returned to my childhood home again in a temporary pastoral role. Presently we have left our three children and their families, to the fulfillment of their dreams, as we enjoy the sunshine of Florida.