Ray Wenger's educational background includes studies at PhD level in mathematics (University of Virginia) and a Th. M from Grace Theological seminary. But it was in the early years he spent teaching Christian school that pushed him to search for a thoroughly Biblical basis for training godly children. Ray and his wife Rhoda have been married 49 years, and have nine children. For thirty years they focused on itinerant ministry, teaching on many topics in addition to family life.
Gradually as their children grew to adulthood, they pursued ministry of their own, and Ray and Rhoda continued this ministry as a couple. They are grateful to God that all of their children are believers desiring to know Christ and make Him known.
Even as a nine-year-old child (third in a family of seven) Rhoda loved children, and delighted in helping care for her baby brother. Her love of children created in her the desire to be an elementary school teacher, an occupation she found totally fulfilling, as she loved those young ones and helped them learn important skills and life lessons. After several years of teaching school, God brought a young man into her life and they married.
God blessed them with nine children. Then she had the special delight of teaching her very own children, investing in their lives, and preparing them for their future. In this book, Divine Design for the Family, she shares some of the wisdom and insights gleaned through the years as a wife and mother. Her testimony is that after 49 years of happy marriage and nine adult children who love and serve Jesus Christ, God's ways work.