About the Author

Hope McCardy is Director of the Prayer Garden Ministry and Co-director, with her husband, of the Marriage and Family Ministry at Grace Community Church in beautiful Nassau, Bahamas. She is a science teacher by profession who has spent the last twenty-five years as a homemaker. Hope is an avid prayer journaler who loves to write. Under the Prayer Garden Ministry, she has developed Prayer Garden journals and written prayer curricula for the College Students, Praying Wives, and Praying Husbands email ministries. She is also the author of the prayer book, Be Blessed and Encouraged. She and her husband, Cardinal, have been married for 30 plus years, and they have four adult children (all homeschooled up to the completion of grade six) and one son-in-law.