Welcome to JackSample.com

This site is a simple one and has one main purpose; To give you the opportunity to get acquainted with Jack and Elana Sample and family.

Jack has worked as a school teacher and principal in small Christian schools from Oregon to Nebraska to Papua New Guinea. 

Elana has had the greater work as a stay at home mom raising our two awesome kids, Corrie and Ray. Of course this work takes much less of our time now as they have both flown the nest.

In 2002 the care of Jack's folks brought Jack home from teaching. Both parents had Parkinson's and required full time care. Later in 2002 his dad passed away. Then in June of 2005 his mother also passed away. This along with the fact that Ray and Corrie had left home for college gave Elana and Jack the "empty nest" syndrome.

Ray, our first born is now 25. In May of 2007 he married Crystal Benson and is now living in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he is working for SOH Productions as a production consultant, fancy name for sales professional.  He also loves to minister with his beautiful tenor voice in church on weekends and he has a website where you can hear some of his music.  www.MyHeartSings.com

Ray and Crystal brought us our first grandson on October 8. His name is David Levi Sample and he is such a precious bundle of joy!

Corrie, at 24 years of age, is currently at Colorado State University in Pueblo where she is in an intensive 14 month nursing program that will add a bachelors in Nursing to her bachelors in International Resuce and Relief from Union College.  

As a family we have served overseas in Pohnpei, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea and Elana spent the first 12 years of her life in Indonesia so we have a bit of International flavor in the home.

Currently Elana and I are living in Edgewood, New Mexico while we are preparing to return to Papua New Guinea to work with Mission Support Network. That website is http://MissionSupportNetwork.com

Visit our corporate site at http://namiacorporation.com