Elisient Maeve Vernon spent most of her life in children's ministry. She worked with children in the churches pastored by her husband, Rev. Samuel Vernon, who is now retired from full-time ministry. Mrs. Vernon spent her early years in a rural village in Jamaica where her father was the pastor. She was a tomboy, the only girl among several brothers. After high school, she was trained as a children's librarian. Her years of experience working with children in the Library Services in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Western Canada and also her studies in child psychology, writing for children, and study fo the Bible were evidences that God had prepared her to become younger children's editor for Caribbean Christian Publishing (CCP). She now resides with her husband of sixty-one years in Miami, Florida.