Karen Beaumont, a wife of 36 years, mother/step-mother of five and grandmother of twelve, is a licensed and ordained minister of the Gospel through Associated Interdependent Ministries of LaSalle, Illinois. A published author (under pseudonym K.J. Culpepper on Amazon.com) she writes in her spare time while serving as pastor of Spirit of Life Church and as a hospice chaplain for a local health benefits company. She is also preparing her doctoral thesis through Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her passion is engaging people in biblical study and bringing biblical characters to life through teaching, preaching and writing. She has ministered around the world in countries such as the Philippines, India, Ireland, and Belarus. A former resident of Minnesota, she currently resides with her husband, Paul, in Tucson, Arizona.