AUTHOR

Kay Vandevier Henry

A desire to proclaim Christ’s love and lordship—that is how columnist and author Kay Vandevier Henry summarizes her forty-year focus during career, service, and ministry endeavors.
“I could not possibly communicate with cogency and spiritual clarity without inspiration from the Lord,” she continues. In her book Living in the Light: A Journey of Goodness and Mercy, Kay has revised and transformed more than one hundred inspirational columns she wrote for her hometown newspaper into topically organized devotional vignettes that guide readers toward the light of God’s love.
Although Kay is not new to the task of writing—she has authored a large body of training and curriculum materials focused on church preschool ministry—she is new to the inspirational and devotional Bible study approach found in Living in the Light.
Kay began writing more than forty years ago as a young mother desiring developmentally appropriate, Bible-based church curriculum for her two preschoolers. Through the years, she worked on teams writing Christian materials for Convention, Broadman, Holman, and LifeWay publishers. She has authored or coauthored seven books and contributed to numerous published church curriculum and training resources.
She served on ministry staffs at four Oklahoma Baptist churches and led numerous church preschool teacher workshops nationally.
Kay is a graduate of, and a former assistant vice president for development at, Oklahoma Baptist University, where she led in alumni and donor-related projects for fifteen years. She also was a daily newspaper reporter and a high school English and journalism teacher.
During their retirement years, Kay and husband, Joe, have traveled extensively in the Holy Lands, touring Israel, Turkey, several Greek islands, Greece, and Italy. They visited historical and archeological sites focused on the ministry of Jesus and first-century Christian leaders.
The Henrys have been married fifty-three years and have two children and two grandchildren.