Elissa Bjeletich Davis

Elissa Bjeletich Davis hosts several popular Ancient Faith Radio podcasts: Light Streams In, Everyday Orthodox, Raising Saints, and together with Kristina Wenger, Tending the Garden of Our Hearts. She is the co-author of Tending the Garden of Our Hearts: Daily Lenten Meditations for Families (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2019) and also of Blueprints for the Little Church: Creating an Orthodox Home (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2016), and a contributor to The Grace of Being There: Single Mother Saints in Our Lives (Park End Press, 2022). She is the author of Welcoming the Christ Child: Family Readings for the Nativity Lent (Sebastian Press, 2017), and In God’s Hands: A Mother’s Journey through Her Infant’s Critical Illness (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2013). Elissa directs and teaches Sunday church school at Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Austin, Texas, and serves as the Camp Director at Camp Emmanuel, the Metropolis of Denver Greek Orthodox summer camp in Colorado. She has contributed to several national curriculum projects, and teaches two courses at St. Athanasius Academy. Elissa serves as President of the Advisory Board of Youth Equipped to Serve (YES), a ministry of FOCUS North America. She and her husband, Chris, live in a house full of kids near Austin, Texas.