The Reverend Doctor Vernon G. Elgin has retired from a profession of more than fifty-seven years as a parish clergy, sometime Univesity Professor, and global missionary with the Presbyterian Church...view moreThe Reverend Doctor Vernon G. Elgin has retired from a profession of more than fifty-seven years as a parish clergy, sometime Univesity Professor, and global missionary with the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has served the Church primarily in the USA, and more recently in Indonesia, Colombia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and Malawi, Africa. Vernon and his wife, Marjorie, are both graduates with Masters' Degrees from the Pittsburgh (Xenia) Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree from the New College of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and his baccalaureate from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has previously published OBITUARY THEOLOGY, SEVEN ABOMINATIONS WITH A WRENCH, and HOLY HITCHHIKING FOREIGN HIGHWAYS. The Elgin's reside in Kent WA, and have two sons and six grandchildren.view less