Jill
Patrice Bond, is the wife of Alan Bond and the mother of Reed, Stuart,
Trent, and Bethany Kay Bond. She thoroughly enjoys this role
and finds it always challenging and very rewarding.
Background:
Jill
grew up in Central Florida where all her family still lives (Haines
City, Winter Haven area). She and Alan married in 1981 and
they traveled where ever the US Army took them Fort Campbell,
Kentucky and Fort Clayton, Republic of Panama.
After
leaving the army, they moved to Fort Worth, Texas where they attended
seminary and Alan worked for General Dynamics on "top secret"
planes and some not so "top secret."
In
1991, they moved back to Florida and lived on the Space Coast where
Alan served as an engineer with the booster rocket program.
Jill loves to tease him about being a "rocket scientist."
They
took a year off from full-time work for a full-time ministry mid-1998
to mid-1999.
Near
the end of 1999 Alan accepted a position back with his former company,
Pratt Whitney, but this time down in West Palm Beach Fl. They
moved to the Treasure Coast in 1999, and hope to call it home for
many years.
All
told, the Bond family has moved to 17 different houses, (not including
ministry office moves).
In her "spare time," she...
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writes books teaching others how she manages her home
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writes articles for newsletters and magazines
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speaks at Ladies Retreats, Conventions, and Other events (from
small groups to keynoting at a 60,000 ticket event)
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operates a part-time "ministry," counseling other
families on topics such as homeschooling, Christian living,
setting priorities, and many more
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receives grief from her computer
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also, she
quilts and gardens for the shear enjoyment of it.
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She is the author of several books:
She writes a regular column for:
Media:
Though
she no longer has her own radio program, she is a regular guest
on radio and television shows nation-wide. For a season, she
and Alan co-hosted a one-hour live talk radio program three days
a week out of Carpenter's Home Church (the largest church in Florida),
but it took too much time away from their family, so they resigned.
For
booking information, contact her at speaking@bondingplace.com
and she will put you in contact with the PR staff at her publisher.
Her "formal" educational background includes six colleges:
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Continuing education courses via local community college (IRCC)
and specific private classes
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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary master's program
in Communications
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Murray State University master's program in Systems Management
in the Industrial Engineering Department (from which a
great deal of mega-cooking is based)
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University of Central Florida second undergraduate degree
(Marketing)
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Florida State University first undergraduate degree (Arts)
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Polk Community College dual enrollment while in high school
(Chemistry)
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Her "informal" education is far more valuable:
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almost twenty years of being Alan's wife
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more than seventeen years being a mother
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"homeschooling" all four from conception on
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more than eighteen years mega-cooking™
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more than eleven years teaching the concept of mega-cooking
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counseling, chatting with, learning from thousands of families
via The
Bondingplace ministry.
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hundreds of volunteer hours with various clubs, support
groups, associations, and churches.
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intensive "hands-on," thrown into the deep-end
experiences with:
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Special needs parenting (specially autism) PREACCH
ministry is an outgrowth of this baptism by life.
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Diabetes, Type I (second son caught it from a virus
-- overnight!)
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Alternative methods for health (her personal medical
history is "feet thick" including: Asthma,
Allergies, Sinus Problems, Deep-venal Thrombosis, IBS,
Vertigo, Labyrinitisis, Hypothyroidism, Hypoglycemia,
Gallstones, Urinary Tract Infections, well, you get
the idea. . .) She writes: "This personal
journey has served me well to learn ways to avoid common
diet problems and to seek herbal remedies. Though
there have been times I have been on massive amounts
of medications, I have been able to go for years with
nothing but herbs and supplements . . . "
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Work experience:
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Years ago and ancient history
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Trainer at Walt Disney World
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Assistant manager of a printing firm
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English teacher for a state university in Kentucky
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Chief cook and bottle-washer with The Bonding Place for
the last ten plus years.
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Associations:
Be sure
to read Jill
Bond's Statement of Faith
This article
was printed from the web site www.bondingplace.com. Permission is granted
to print one copy for PERSONAL use. For multiple copies or any other use,
please contact Jill Bond for permission.
Jill Bond, PO Box 12103, Fort Pierce, FL 34979. All rights reserved. 'THOU
SHALT NOT STEAL."
©Copyright
1995- 2002 — Jill Bond — all rights reserved
mega-cooking is a trademark of Jill Bond
original artwork copyright Reed Bond, all rights reserved
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