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| Billie Silvey |
| Billie Silvey has been a Christian for almost half a century, a journalist for forty-five years, and a Los Angeles resident for forty years. She and her husband, Frank, have two children, Kathy Silvey Hall and Robert Silvey, and a granddaughter, Katyana Hall. A graduate of Pepperdine University, Billie has done graduate work in English at Pepperdine and in urban ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary. She also studied fund raising at UCLA Extension. Co-author of Time Management for Christian Women with Helen Young, she wrote the popular God Has. . . series of Bible study guides, and edited Trusting Women, a book by and about women serving God by ministering to people. Her God’s Child in the City: Catching God’s Vision for Urban Ministry came out in 2005 from Leafwood Press. She has spoken for church groups across the nation. Associate editor of 21st Century Christian Magazine for 24 years, she served as Outreach Minister for the Culver Palms Church of Christ and Executive Director of Culver Palms Life Skills Lab. She now works as case manager and grant writer for Westchester High School Healthy Start and does freelance grant writing, writing and editing. Billie has received the Distinguished Christian Service Award from Pepperdine University, the Excellence in Mass Media Ministry Award from Abilene Christian University, and the Outstanding Christian Writer Award from the Christian Chronicle. She has also been recognized for community service by the City and County of Los Angeles and the Assembly of the State of California. She has served on the Palms Neighborhood Council, representing the organizations and non-profits in her immediate neighborhood to the City of Los Angeles. Billie loves to read, write, spend time with her family, and watch British mysteries on TV. |