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
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