Ted Lazicki has had a ministry of writing children’s stories and plays over a thirty-year time span – this while serving as Sunday school teacher, superintendent and church elder.

Several of his plays have been published, and many of his stories and articles have appeared in his denomination’s (Church of the Lutheran Brethren) periodicals. Retired now from his secular position, he lives with his wife Fern in Arcadia, California, on his Lazy Z Ranch (a huge half-acre spread which mysteriously swells to five acres every time the grass needs mowing).

Of his six children, one son is a missionary in Chad, Africa, and another son is a pastor in Eugene, Oregon. One daughter works with Frontiers Mission to Muslims in Pasadena, California. Two others are pastors’ wives in Minnesota. The youngest daughter is a teaching assistant at Azusa Pacific University.

Ted is a volunteer for the building maintenance department at the U.S. Center for World Mission, where he is also the assistant editor of the Global Prayer Digest. At home he reads, writes and repairs. “We hike California’s High Sierra,” Ted says, “and visit our far-flung children as often as funds and our consciences permit us.”