JoAnn Streeter Shade

JoAnn Streeter Shade brings a variety of experience, interests and insight to the written page.

She has ministered in Salvation Army congregations and social service programs in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and has served at North Coast Family Foundation, a Christian counseling center in Northeast Ohio. She is a regular contributor to Salvation Army publications, and an author of more than twenty books,

She is married to Larry, is the mother of three adult sons, Greg, Drew and Dan, and Lauren and Becky, beloved daughters-in-law, and is Nana to the lovely Madelyn Simone, the delightful and determined Elizabeth Holiday, the charming Henry Kyle, the sweet Emma Belle, and the dapper Jack Cooper Shade. With a Master of Arts in pastoral counseling and a Doctor of Ministry in the Women in Prophetic Leadership track from Ashland Theological Seminary, she combines her academic training with a writer's eye, a pastor's heart, and a grandmother's joy through Gracednotes Ministries. She writes regularly on Substack at Gracednotes